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My endeavor in the following pages will be to do this, very imperfectly, beyond a doubt, but, as far as it goes, candidly and without disguise. The writer must in the first instance, in order that his remarks may be accurately judged by the reader, essay to define his own position and the sphere within which his observations extend.
Kate's face hardened and she replied curtly: "I already have had that doubtful pleasure upon an occasion, which you should remember." Mrs. Pantin flushed. Disconcerted for a moment, she collected herself, and instead of protesting ignorance of her meaning, as she was tempted, she said candidly: "We must let bygones be bygones, Miss Prentice, and be friends. We are older now, and wiser, aren't we?"
Your habitual truthfulness encourages me to believe you, and I will not insist on reading this letter, though I can not imagine why you should object to it. But, Edna, I am disappointed in you, and in return for the confidence I have always reposed in you, I want you to answer candidly the question I am about to ask. Why did you refuse to marry Gordon Leigh?" "Because I did not love him."
The necessity, in the great dimly-shining room where, declining, for his reasons, to sit down, he moved about in Amerigo's very footsteps, the necessity affected her as pressing upon her with the very force of the charm itself; of the old pleasantness, between them, so candidly playing up there again; of the positive flatness of their tenderness, a surface all for familiar use, quite as if generalised from the long succession of tapestried sofas, sweetly faded, on which his theory of contentment had sat, through unmeasured pauses, beside her own.
I do not think, I will tell you candidly that Wickam is a person of very cheerful spirit, or what one would call a 'A daughter of Momus, Miss Tox softly suggested. 'Exactly so, said Mrs Chick; 'but she is exceedingly attentive and useful, and not at all presumptuous; indeed I never saw a more biddable woman. I would say that for her, if I was put upon my trial before a Court of Justice.
The mother had divined the truth. Like all provincial mothers, she calculated candidly in her own mind the advantages of the match.
I candidly confess you would inspire me with an ambition to raise my poor countrymen in your opinion, if I were not restrained by the sacred sentiment of friendship, which forbids me to rival Leonora even in a husband's opinion. However, Josephine, who feels herself a party concerned ever since her battle with the Swiss, has piqued herself upon dressing me with exquisite taste.
And after one of her fits of ill-behaviour, her parents and friends had not the least need to scold her, as she candidly told them, because she suffered a great deal more than they would ever have had her, and her conscience punished her a great deal more severely than her kind elders would have thought of doing. I suppose she lies awake all that night, and tosses and tumbles in her bed.
They do not know beforehand in what their work is to result. They try an experiment it succeeds it fails; they alter it; they alter, perhaps, what they ought to leave alone, and leave what they ought to alter; and so, at last, there always remains but a patchwork, which pleases and amuses, but never satisfies." "Acknowledge candidly," said Edward, "that you do not like this new work of hers."
I don't much mind dying especially if I can arrange for ten minutes with George first but quite candidly I'd see England wiped off the map before I'd go back to Dartmoor." Latimer made a slight gesture with his hands. "You've saved my life, once at all events," he said. "It may seem a trifle to you, but it's a matter of quite considerable importance to me.
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