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However, in the capacity of a mere enquiry agent I have come to pick up anything I can. May I smoke?" He asked in his usual easy-going voice and with his usual candid smile, and then his eye was arrested by an inscription printed in capital letters, and hung in a handsome frame upon the office wall. It ran: "MY THREE RULES OF LIFE,

I suppose, sir, she didn't tell you anything likely to help us? 'No! I don't think the past can help the present, Mr Tinkler. But what is your candid opinion about this case? 'I think it is a mystery, Mr Cargrim, sir, and is likely to remain one. 'You don't anticipate that the murderer will be found? 'No! replied Mr Inspector, gruffly. 'I don't.

There was neither subterfuge or duplicity in Mike; he was always singularly candid on the subject of his sins and general worthlessness, and he was never more natural in word and deed than at Holly Park.

"You are candid, my friend," said I, "and your frankness, alone, would be inestimable in this age of deceit, and country of hypocrisy." "Ah, Sir!" said my new acquaintance, "I see already that you are one of those persons who look to the dark side of things; for my part, I think the present age the best that ever existed, and our own country the most virtuous in Europe." "I congratulate you, Mr.

When once a man's generosity has been aroused it knows not where to stop, for the more it is practised the more beautiful it becomes in the eyes of the generous. Farewell. Before giving a recital of a little speech which I had some thoughts of publishing, I called a few friends to hear it, so as to put me on my mettle, but not many, so that I might get candid criticism.

"No bore of constituents. I congratulate you, and envy. I wish I were in parliament myself." "You! I never fancied you bitten by the political mania." "Political! no. But it is the most respectable way, with luck, of living on the public. Better than swindling." "A candid way of viewing the question.

Retrieved, however, it was; and the following morning Mr. G received several sheets of closely-written manuscript, the transcribing of which alone must have occupied half the night." Candid Robber. The duke of Ossuna, viceroy of Naples, once visited the galleys, and passing through the prisoners, he asked several of them what their offences were.

He lived long enough to see the hostility which had opposed him in youth die away, and honor and kindness take its place. Let it be repeated, his aims were good. He would have been candid and un-selfconscious had that been possible for him; and perhaps the failure was one of manner rather than of heart. Yes, he was a fortunate man. His most conspicuous success was as a play-writer.

"Nathan Dresser is here," he wrote to his friend Bennett, on January 15, 1846, "and speaks as though the contest between Hardin and me is to be doubtful in Menard County. I know he is candid, and this alarms me some. I asked him to tell me the names of the men that were going strong for Hardin; he said Morris was about as strong as any. Now tell me, is Morris going it openly?

Brownson was an intense and patriotic American, and his national quality comes out strongly in his extended treatise 'The American Republic' . The best known of his other works is a candid, vigorous, and engaging autobiography entitled 'The Convert' . From 'The Convert'