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With a sure hand he opened the shop door. He walked up to the counter. His step was easy and self-possessed. A tall, finely-dressed clerk, with large red mustaches, advanced to meet him. "What can I show you, sir?" asked the clerk. With an aplomb that just a moment before would have seemed impossible to him, Enrique answered: "I'd like to see that emerald necklace in the window." "Yes, sir."
Twice the door SLAMMED open, and Monsieur le Directeur bounced out, frothing at the mouth and threatening everyone with infinite cabinot, on the ground that everyone's deportment or lack of it was menacing the aplomb of the commissioners.
It penetrates every line, and indeed makes it true of the book that whoever "touches this touches a man." The lesson of the poet is all in the direction of the practical manly and womanly qualities and virtues, health, temperance, sanity, power, endurance, aplomb, and not at all in the direction of the literary and artistic qualities or culture.
When she had gone he began to talk to Janet about the folly, in general, of prohibition, the fuse oil distributed on the sly. "I'll bet I could go out and find half a dozen rum shops within a mile of here!" he declared. Janet did not doubt it. Ditmar's aplomb, his faculty of getting what he wanted, had amused and distracted her.
Count Kengyelesy did not bring his wife with him: the little rogue on her husband's departure declared that she was ill and remained behind verbum sap! Henrietta was very much occupied by the duties of hospitality. She took a pride in anticipating the wants of all her guests, and at the evening soirées she played the part of hostess with becoming aplomb.
Pride of the eye, a keen sense of the proprieties and the conventionalities, and a morbid feeling for the ridiculous, would have been death to Whitman's undertaking. He would have faltered, or betrayed self-consciousness. He certainly never could have spoken with that elemental aplomb and indifference which is so marked a feature of his work.
There was ready money and there were broad acres, ready to fall wholly to the husband, to lend dignity to his descendants, and to himself a title, when he should be called upon the Bench. On the side of Jean, there was perhaps some fascination of curiosity as to this unknown male animal that approached her with the roughness of a ploughman and the APLOMB of an advocate.
Her shyness was palpable, but it was saved from awkwardness by her native grace and good sense. She made up in modesty what she lacked in aplomb. Her months in school had not eradicated a certain self-consciousness born of her secret. The brain-cells never lose the impressions of youth, and Rena's Patesville life was not far enough removed to have lost its distinctness of outline.
There was ready money and there were broad acres, ready to fall wholly to the husband, to lend dignity to his descendants, and to himself a title, when he should be called upon the Bench. On the side of Jean, there was perhaps some fascination of curiosity as to this unknown male animal that approached her with the roughness of a ploughman and the aplomb of an advocate.
He may give his word to escape me; then betray me to his countrymen. I have no faith in the Firangi." "Believe me, if he gives his word he will keep it. That is the way with us." "It is not your way." "I am no longer of them," said Diggle with consummate aplomb. "Dismiss him now; I shall do my best with him." "Then you must hasten.
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