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"All the world knows that...." he continued, with a sceptical laugh. "Is it not written ... in the society papers? But it has always been aboveboard and harmless enough...." Dorothy smiled as she looked out across the grey sea. He was, it appeared, telling her nothing that she did not know. For she was wise and shrewd of that pure leaven of womankind which leaveneth all the rest.
However, that won't matter much, for I tell 'ee, fair an' aboveboard at the beginnin', that when I come to gaps that I can't fill up from memory, I'll just bridge 'em over from imagination, d'ye see?" "What's imagination?" demanded Dan McCoy, whose tendency to pert interruption and reply nothing yet discovered could restrain.
An awful lot of makebelieve went on about that sort of thing involving a lifelong slur with the usual splash page of gutterpress about the same old matrimonial tangle alleging misconduct with professional golfer or the newest stage favourite instead of being honest and aboveboard about the whole business.
With a countenance whose inscrutability alone was a threat, Victor took out and conned the telegraph form. A message ostensibly so open and aboveboard that it hadn't been thought worth while to hide its wording under the cloak of a code. There was no signature unless one were clever or wise enough to transpose the two final letters and take them in relation to the word immediately preceding.
"You understand our procedure, Martin," Robinson continued. "We are frank and aboveboard. We set the price, and if you can't see your way clear to take it there are no hard feelings. We simply call it off for good." Wade knew how true this was.
I don't mean to fish for your defences against them, if you have any, but " "Mr. Pleydell," replied Glossin, "Iam always disposed to act aboveboard, and I think I can explain the matter at once.
I don't know whether I can trust you or not." "But why this secrecy, if everything is aboveboard?" "As I explained to Mrs. Ruthven, some distant relatives hold the fortune now, and if they learn of what I am doing they will at once take steps to head my claim off. I wish to spring a surprise on them."
You know how long you've been in the office it's years, now, several of them, anyway; and you know I've always been straight and aboveboard with you. I've never what you call presumed. Because you were in my office I've tried to be more careful than if if you wasn't in my office you understand. But just the same, it don't make me any the less human.
Let her help you save your child, by making it possible for you to be open and aboveboard, and see him all you want to all you ought to. Oh, Maurice dear, it would have been better, of course, if you had told Eleanor at first. You wouldn't have had to carry this awful load for all these years. But tell her now! Give her the chance to be generous. Let her help you to do your duty to the little boy.
Blaine was clearly the choice of the rank and file of the party; his nomination was won in fair and aboveboard fashion, because the rank and file of the party stood back of him; and I supported him to the best of my ability in the ensuing campaign. The Speakership contest enlightened me as regards more things than the attitude of the bosses.
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