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It was the first time Blake had ever seen him give this particular facial demonstration, and the effect was much as if some benevolent old lady had winked brazenly. "Well!" he exclaimed. "I don't know what to say." "There is nothing to say," Mr. Dreux answered in a vastly self-satisfied tone. "I'm going to offer my services to Donnelly in confidence, of course.
So these were the mem-logue, they whispered to each other, these shameless white women who went about openly with men and met all the world brazenly with unveiled countenances. And the whisperers modestly drew their saris before their own faces. "She is the goddess Kali or Durgá, the wife of Shiva, one of the Hindu Trinity.
Brazenly she abandoned the seemly reticence of dashes. "Damn all the war!" she wrote; and again: "War is surely more hellish than hell could be!" "Mercy! Can the child be using such words in actual talk?", demanded Mrs. Penniman of the judge, to whom she read the letter. "More'n likely," declared the judge. "War makes 'em forget their home training.
Enduring Harlan in the committee headquarters strained his self-possession daily. So the young man lied brazenly in reply to the blandly courteous notes of invitation from Mrs. Presson, who continued alert to the promising social qualifications of General Waymouth's chief lieutenant. He pleaded work. It was true in a measure. The day was filled with duties to which he applied himself unflaggingly.
Then he knocked over a hare a fat giant of its race that stared at him brazenly from a tussock. The hare kicked back into a pool in its death struggle, however, and Ross was forced to leave cover to retrieve its body. But he was alert and he stood up, dagger out and ready, to greet the man who parted the bushes to watch him.
"'My poor son, she says, 'I shall allow to go his silly way after this outrageous bit of double-dealing. I think it useless to strive further with him. He has not only confessed all the foul details, but he came brazenly out with the assertion that a man has a right to lead his own life and he barely thirty!
"Did ye ever hear the like?" A telegraphic message flashed across the table between Auntie Flora and Auntie Janet which Gavin did not see. "We jist have no life with him at all," said Auntie Flora, "he's that thrawn." "I think I'll jist have to take him in hand, myself," said the lively Auntie Janet. "I can manage them all but Auntie Janet," Gavin said brazenly.
He, they insisted, had by his writings removed all possible doubt on the subject, and had securely established the truth of the traditional belief. One of the monks went so far as to ask me brazenly which of the two, Bede or Hilduin, I considered the better authority on this point.
Swiftly I regret to say, almost with a show of temper she snatched the four of diamonds from its lawful place and laid it brazenly far outside the game. "The creature is free," she said crisply but at once her arrogance was gone and she drooped visibly in weakness. So quickly did I rise from the table that the cards of the game were hurled into a meaningless confusion. I stood at her side.
That the thing which still called itself Christian Church had become a Falsehood, and brazenly went about pretending to pardon men's sins for metallic coined money, and to do much else which in the everlasting truth of Nature it did not now do: here lay the vital malady. The inward being wrong, all outward went ever more and more wrong. Belief died away; all was Doubt, Disbelief.
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