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Italians are the most charming of the nations, but Italians of the lower classes are often very unreserved in the display of their most fugitive sensations, their most passing moods. The men, especially when they are young, are highly susceptible to beauty in women. They are also and the second emotion springs naturally enough from the first almost childishly averse from female ugliness.
Nevertheless, although the argument now before us thus admits of a childishly easy refutation on strictly formal grounds, I suspect that in substance the argument in a general way is often relied upon as one of very considerable weight.
Astrardente had seen a great deal of the world, but his ideas of politics were almost childishly simple whereas many people said that his principles in relation to his fellows were fiendishly cynical. He was certainly not a very good man; and if he pretended to no reputation for devoutness, it was probable that he recognised the absurdity of his attempting such a pose.
Miss Toland asked, instantly alert. "No, I don't suppose so!" Julia said, trying to laugh. "But but I hate him to just send a letter when I expected HIM!" she added childishly. She picked it up, and began slowly to read it. Miss Toland, watching her, saw the muscles of her face harden, and her eyes turn to steel. The blood rushed to her face, and then receded quickly.
It was now fourteen days since she and I had first met, and in that time I had found in her thrice that number of moods. She could be as gay and sweet as the morning, as dark and vengeful as the storms that came up of afternoons, pensive as the twilight, stately as the night, in her there met a hundred minds. Also she could be childishly frank and tell you nothing.
As he read it he had seemed to hear her very voice saying the soft, touching things in it things that women say so easily and men can't hit upon; and to be looking into her changing face, and the eyes that could be so fierce, and then again so childishly sweet and sad as he had seen them, at their last meeting on the moor, while she was giving him news of Radowitz.
"Dearest," he said under his breath, "I am very selfish to have done this; but I I thought perhaps you might have cared enough to to venture " "I do care; you are very cruel to me." The voice was childishly broken and muffled.
"None of them could explain whither I went nor whence I came; they did not know the way to return thither," he writes, somewhat childishly. But he was not back in Espanola yet, and his means for getting there were crumbling away beneath his feet.
"No one knows what he is, Opal; nor who. That is, no one but the Verdaynes. He has always made a mystery of himself." Opal clapped her small hands childishly. "Charming! My ideal knight in the flesh! But how shall I attract him?" She knitted her brows and pondered as seriously as though the fate of nations depended upon her decision. "Shall I send him my card, Alice, and ask him to call?
"Well" Magsie was scarlet with anger "I could make him sorry, don't worry about that!" she said childishly. "Of course, if his wife DID consent, and then changed her mind, and you sent his letters to her," Billy said after cogitation. "It might he may have glossed it all over, to her, you know." "Exactly!" Magsie said triumphantly. "I knew there was a way! She's a sensitive woman, too.
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