Then calming herself, "Perhaps then," she added, borrowing some of his irony, "if I'm not to go out with Mr. Alison, you'll tell me what I am to do."
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
For a few minutes Hilton gazed at him in an angry, disgusted manner; but the process of smoking looked so calming in its effects upon his friend, that he submitted to the desire to imitate him, and proceeded to light a cigar himself; but before he had been smoking many minutes, a regular hard breathing told him that Chumbley was dozing, and sure enough he was lying there, heedless of present trouble and that to come, his cigar tightly held between his teeth, and his breath coming and going, as he slept placidly and well.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
With an effort such as his cunning, and the control which experience had given him over his passions, enabled him to make-he succeeded in calming himself-sufficiently for a pretence at courteous conversation.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid