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We come into the world with evil passions, perverted faculties, and unholy dispositions: for let what will be said of the blandness and attractiveness of children, there are in those young hearts the seeds of evil; and it needs but that a note be taken of what passes in the every-day life of a child, to convince that all is not so amiable as at first sight appears, but that the heart hides dark deformity, headstrong passions, and vicious thoughts.
For, though I grant that nothing is more exquisite than the politeness of your French marquis of the old regime, nothing more frankly gracious than the cordial address of a high-bred English gentleman, nothing more kindly prepossessing than the genial good-nature of some patriarchal German, who will condescend to forget his sixteen quarterings in the pleasure of doing you a favour, yet these specimens of the suavity of their several nations are rare; whereas blandness and polish are common attributes with your Italian.
It was as usual in that age the conquest, not of a heavenly spirit, though it boasted itself such, but of a cultivated mind over brute flesh. They might have said all this aloud, and yet the churchman would have gone on, as he did, where he left off, with unaltered blandness of tone.
"The Ledger does not recognize conditional resignation." "Very well." Banneker's smile was as sunny and untroubled as a baby's. "I suppose you appreciate that some one must cover this kind of news." "Yes. It will have to be some one else." The faintest, fleeting suspicion of a frown troubled the Brahminical calm of Mr. Greenough's brow, only to pass into unwrinkled blandness.
He entered into the conversation, not only with such brilliancy, but with such a blandness and courtesy of manner! There was no scorn on his lip, no haughtiness on his forehead nothing which showed him for a moment conscious of his immeasurable superiority over every one present. After dinner, as we retired, I caught his eyes.
Gentlemen and ladies, in the Southern part of the United States, are accustomed to treat every one that approaches them, rich or poor, with a degree of civility and courteous ease, that is unknown among the same class in any other part of the civilized world. Their blandness and kindness cannot fail to make the poor man feel happier and better.
Madame, with an air of composure, rises from her chair, and paces twice or thrice across the room, seemingly in deep study. "As I was going on to say, Madame," pursues Mr. Snivel, with great blandness of manner, "when our white trash get to living with our negroes they are as well as dead. One never knows what comes of them after that.
And so it was that presently he said: 'Well, Helen, this is great news. 'Yes, isn't it? she answered. 'It has been a year of news, hasn't it? He stared, courteously blank, and something in her was pleased to observe that he looked silly with his affectation of blandness. 'I beg your pardon? 'You had your great event, and I, now, have mine. 'Ah yes, I see.
The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous.
Nanny appeared, looking very red and heated the fact was, she had been 'doing up' the kitchen fire, and that is a sort of work which by no means conduces to blandness of temper. 'Nanny, you have forgotten Jet's milk; will you bring me some more cream, please? This was just a little too much for Nanny's forbearance. 'Yes, I dare say.
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