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Neale came back now, frankly consulting his watch with Neale's bluntness in such matters. "Train's due in a minute or two," he said. "Where's Mr. Welles?" Marise said, "Over there, with Paul. I'll go tell them."
And all of you come over to the lawn and make yourselves at home. Bless you, ma'am, I'm fond of children. My name is Smiles, ma'am Abraham Smiles." "It suits you," said Miss Cordelia emphatically, before she thought, and then blushed rosy-red over her bluntness. Mr. Smiles laughed. "Yes, I guess I always have an everlasting grin on.
He came just in time to hear his father's blundering, and, in his jovial humour, in his delight over the new conception of his father that he had acquired after the toast, he said, with a cheery bluntness: 'Excuse me, father, you are mistaken there. The circumstances are not at all as you state. On the contrary
Then there were the Tumblers; and the adventure of Gigi and the Hunchback, that was the most exciting of all. And how near they came to losing the bag of silver which they had earned by selling their vegetables at the market! Giuseppe asked Gigi many questions, not unkindly, but with a bluntness that made the boy wince. And often Mother Margherita spoke up for him, with a kind answer.
Thus Marius remained for a while; to Roman society an interesting specimen of the self-made man, marked by a bluntness and directness appropriate to the type and provocative of an amused regard; to the professed politician a man with a fairly successful but puzzling political career, and one that perhaps needed not to be too seriously considered.
One can seek out a pretty face when one has made a pile. You and I want money not toys, don't we?" I nodded assent, smiling at his bluntness.
"I didn't mean to fool him. He fooled himself, and I let him do it," said she, dully. He thought her listlessness indifference, and any bluntness in moral tone in a woman, scandalized him. He could understand a Mrs. MacGregor, who was without subtleties; or soft, loving, courageous women like Milly and his sister-in-law, Peter's mother. But this girl he couldn't fathom.
She spoke as if it was the most natural thing on earth for her father to keep a shop, and she didn't seem the least little bit in the world ashamed of it, either." "Why should she?" I answered, with my masculine bluntness. But that was perhaps a trifle too advanced for Lucy.
Now, as it was plain to my father, that all souls were by nature equal, and that the great difference between the most acute and the most obtuse understanding was from no original sharpness or bluntness of one thinking substance above or below another, but arose merely from the lucky or unlucky organization of the body, in that part where the soul principally took up her residence, he had made it the subject of his enquiry to find out the identical place.
"To know you as Dante knew the lady 'One hour for me, one hour worth the world," he told her, all the while watching and loving her beauty. At the thought she trembled a little, though she answered with characteristic bluntness: "He didn't git it, Mr. Johnson." "All the same there are women we could die for," insisted Johnson, dreamily.
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