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The attorney, being long as well as lank, had to stoop under the doorway, but drew himself up handsomely on coming out, and assumed his easy, high-bred style, which, although he was not aware of it, was very nearly insupportable, and smiled very engagingly, and meant to talk a little about the weather; but Miss Brandon made him one of her gravest and slightest bows, and suddenly saw Mrs.
"These are the things I care about," he said, "and I write the stuff for which it appears I have a certain knack only because it enables me to buy them!" Would that all writers of best sellers were as engagingly honest. No few of them, however, write no better and affect the airs of genius into the bargain.
You see, you are responsible for my interest in the affairs of your insurance company, and you have almost a parental responsibility." "How is Wilkinson?" said Smith, engagingly. "Presently it may be that the conversation can be diverted to Mr. Wilkinson. But not now." "Well, then, to go back to the affairs of the Guardian, how is Mr. Osgood?
I am afraid I am stupid about that. My governesses always complained that I was a very thoughtless child." Lady Constance unfolded her hands. Her timid, engagingly vague gaze dwelt appealingly upon Richard's handsome face. "I think, perhaps, if you do not mind, I will go now," she said. "I must bid Lady Calmady good-bye. We dine at Lady Combmartin's to-night. You dine there too, don't you?
Thousands of questions, social, political, economical, ethical, present themselves at once in new and more engagingly simple aspects. Difficulties vanish, distinctions disappear, conventions fade, clothes are reduced to their least common measure, man stands forth in his native nakedness.
She looked good at the dinner-table in the cafe of their apartment building. She knew how to order the right dishes when they entertained and dined down-town. She made it possible for him to return deftly and engagingly the social attentions of older people.
"There might be, of course," he said, after a pause. "Human nature is weak, engagingly weak, Guildea. And you're inclined to flout it. I could understand a certain class of lady the lion-hunting, the intellectual lady, seeking you. Your reputation, your great name " "Yes, yes," Guildea interrupted, rather irritably "I know all that, I know."
That gentleman, having some time since despaired of any response to his persistent baiting, was now preoccupied with a hand-mirror and endeavours to erase the smudge of marking-ink from his face by means of a handkerchief which he now and again moistened in an engagingly natural and unaffected manner. "It's no use, George," observed P. Sybarite presently.
Now, William, you're one o' us." He smiled so engagingly that Will was compelled to laugh, and he felt, too, that he had a new and powerful friend. "That's right, laugh," said Giant Tom. "You take it the way a feller orter, an' you an' me are goin' to be mighty good pards. An' that bein' settled I want to know from you, Jim Boyd, what are you doin' in my valley." "Your valley, Giant!
"Then I think I shall call you Sam," she said, laughing most engagingly. "It's so much easier," and sure enough she did as soon as they were well within the hearing of Miss Westlake, at the hotel. "Oh, Sam," she called, turning in the doorway, "you have my gloves in your pocket." Miss Westlake stiffened like an icicle, and a stern resolve came upon her.
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