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Hardly anyone, fortunately, is so alone as I, and so I have to help myself! Your sisters, now; don't they help?" "Not a great deal," Lavendar confessed. "One would, but she's married and in India, worse luck! The other is well, she's a candid sister." He laughed, and looked up.

From these alone proceed the noble, disinterested friendship, the melting love, the generous sentiment, the ardent gratitude, the soft compassion, the candid opinion; and all those strong energies of a good mind, which fill the moistened eyes with tears, the glowing cheeks with blood, and swell the heart with tides of grief, joy, and benevolence. And thou, O Learning!

The family who owned the plantation were absent, and he saw nothing around him but slaves; the consequence was that he insensibly acquired a dictatorial manner, and habitual disregard to the convenience of his inferiors. The candid admonition of a friend made him aware of this, and his natural amiability was restored.

I have more than once turned a double somersault and it is a wonder I did not break my head, and several candid friends said it was cracked anyway.

Emily Lawrence's letter, in the tone of the candid friend, written after her evening at Crowborough House, had roused a mingled anguish and fury in the mother's breast.

She inherited her sweetness of disposition and her Christian character from her mother, Isabella of France, the daughter of Henry IV. and Marie de' Medici. She was pure and candid; a type of irreproachable piety and goodness, of conjugal tenderness and maternal love; and recompensed outraged morality for all the false pride, selfish ambition, depravity, and scandals of court.

My present informant no sooner saw this light probably a reflection from one of the distant torches than he coolly gave up searching for you. 'They are dead, says he, 'and the spirits in the old church are saying mass for their souls. I'll go to supper. So he came here to drink my ale, and tell his cock-and-bull story." Grace put in her word with a sweet, candid face.

Alfred did not exceedingly relish this probing, but he was too candid to cover up his motives from himself. He answered a decided "yes!" but it was spoken, because he could not elbow himself out of the self-evident conviction forced upon him. "Do you think it degrading for a man to conquer and govern the strongest, as well as the weakest impulses of his soul?" pursued his grandfather.

They were, as he entered, having supper such a much nicer-looking supper than the dinner he had eaten that he felt a kind of grief and they greeted him with a surprise so seemingly genuine that he thought with sudden suspicion: 'I believe they knew I was here all the time. He gave Annette a look furtive and searching. So pretty, seemingly so candid; could she be angling for him?

The doctrine in question only appears a paradox, because it has usually been so expressed as apparently to contradict these well-known facts; which, however, were equally well known to the authors of the doctrine, who, therefore, can only have adopted from inadvertence any form of expression which could to a candid person appear inconsistent with it.