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M. Roland returned to Amiens, and thence wrote to the father to demand his daughter's hand, which was bluntly denied to him. He feared in Roland, whose austerity displeased him, a censor for himself, and a tyrant for his child. Informed of her father's refusal, she grew indignant, and went to a convent destitute of every thing. There she lived on the coarsest food, prepared by her own hands.
That pullin' fodder ez I hev got ter do sets mighty heavy on my stomach." "Tim an' yer dad ALWAYS pulls the fodder an' sech I knows ez that air a true word," said Birt, bluntly.
So strong was this conviction that during a meeting, which the President held with the American Commissioners on the evening of January 29, I told him bluntly perhaps too bluntly from the point of view of policy that I considered the secret interviews which he was holding with the European statesmen, where no witnesses were present, were unwise, that he was far more successful in accomplishment and less liable to be misunderstood if he confined his negotiating to the Council of Ten, and that, furthermore, acting through the Council he would be much less subject to public criticism.
But theories don't seem to go down very well with the village women. She was routed the other day by the mother of a family who told her bluntly to her face she didn't know what she was talking about which was doubtless perfectly true. But the manner of telling seems to have been disagreeable and Alex was very annoyed and complained to Thomson, the new agent.
It was my tobacco and my pipe. Truly, my state might have been vastly worse. Little more was said between Gabord and myself, but he refused bluntly to carry message or letter to anybody, and bade me not to vex him with petitions. But he left me the torch and a flint and steel, so I had light for a space, and I had my blessed tobacco and pipe.
"But though it is said by some Greek, who, I think, is quoted by your favourite Seneca, that a wise man carries his country with him at the soles of his feet, he can't carry also the sunshine over his head." "I tell you what it is," said the parson, bluntly; "you would have a much keener sense of happiness if you had much less esteem for philosophy."
And, by Jove, that reminds me, he's coming to town this evening. You know they've been trying to find you everywhere this last day or two." "And who are 'they, pray?" "Who? The police," said Dunn bluntly, determined to shock his friend into seriousness. Cameron sat up quickly. "The police? What do you mean, Dunn?" "What it means I do not know, Cameron, I assure you. Don't you?"
That is the question," inquired the lady, bluntly. "I bring the draft of a deed for your approval. Shall I read it to you?" "Yes; if it is not very long." He began to read it. The lady interrupted him characteristically. "It's a beastly rigmarole. What does it mean in three words?"
"Bluntly, yes!" exclaimed Richard, almost fiercely, and playing with his dagger. I know what in thee is but thoughtless impulse, haste of passion, the habit kings form of forgetting all things save the love or hate, the desire or anger, of a moment.
'Mamma, I'll try to be good, she said bluntly; 'and if papa gets quite well again' here her voice broke. 'Oh, mamma, if only it was the day for you and papa to come back, and him quite, quite well. Mamma, I think I'd never be naughty again. This was a great, great deal from Biddy!
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