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Still let messengers be sent once, twice and even a third time to solicit the surrender of the murderer." The Governor had the reputation of being an arrant coward. It had often been said, "It is very well for him to send us into the field, while he secures his own life in a good fort, out of which he has not slept a single night in all the years he has been here."
"I have felt for you deeply, and talked many a night with Margaret and Dorothy over the wrong done you. Between you and me," he whispered, "that uncle of yours is an arrant knave, whom the patriots have served with justice. To speak truth, sir, I begin myself to have a little leaning to that cause which you have so bravely espoused." This time I was close to laughing outright.
"Her business surely demands it still," said I. Only an arrant landsman could have reconciled the lumbering old craft with any idea of privateering; but this was only my theory, and I clung to it. "We shall not need to test her." "You rely on your guns, then?" I had observed the care lavished on these. They were of brass, and shone like the door-plates in the main cabin.
She was a widow, and had loved her husband, and her sky was still tinged with grey. Viviette, quick to catch the sadness in the voice, made no reply, but renewed the contemplation of her shoe-tips. "I'm afraid you're an arrant little coquette," said Katherine indulgently. "Lord Banstead says I'm a little devil," she laughed. If she was in some measure a coquette she may be forgiven.
"'Not to my taste, was my reply. 'To tell the truth, I was not very agreeably impressed by your Mr. Westbourne. "'Shocking! exclaimed the astonished lady, with upraised hands. 'That girl will surely be an old maid. She has no taste. Not like him, when he is already deep in love with you? Ulrica, this is arrant coquetry.
Those recently discovered letters of Thomas Jefferson which Judge Harvey had presented to the Historical Society, and which had been so widely discussed as throwing new light upon the beginnings of the United States Republic, had a month before been pronounced and proved to be clever but arrant forgeries.
Shall I get a foghorn and let you have it that way?" "Then, look here, Cotton. If you didn't send it, your underscoring of my name on the house list because I couldn't subscribe was the act of an arrant cad." Cotton winced at Gus's concise definition, but he said, "Oh, get out, you fool!"
Surely it was arrant folly, utter insanity, but it showed that men's lives are not regulated by clockwork, and that, however erring an ideal may be, the passions it may inspire can bring out the greatness of manhood or the ardent devotion of women.
"Most people would say that! Eat your dinner, Giovanni, and do not talk such arrant nonsense." "Why is it nonsense? Because you do not agree with me?" "Because you are too much excited to talk sensibly," said his father. "Do you think I cannot see it?" Giovanni was silent for a time. He was angry at his father for detecting the cause of his vagueness, but he supposed there was no help for it.
And then I took half an hour to tell her that, in spite of the fact that she was the most arrant, deceitful, unreliable, two-faced and scuttling politician in the world, she was almost incredibly nice. She listened quite patiently, and at the end she held up her fingers. They'd been crossed all the time. No, that's the last I ever saw of her, Miss Allstairs. She left before Commencement.
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