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You see I tell you so frankly, that you will not remain away like that any more. Give me your arm; I will show you 'Christ Walking on the Water' myself; it is at the very end, behind the conservatory. Papa put it back there so that everyone would be obliged to go through the rooms. It is astonishing how proud papa is of this house."
"I cannot," he said, "expect you to answer more frankly unless I am equally frank with you. I am at this time engaged in a business transaction of some importance with Madame Ypsilante. The sum of money involved is very large. It is" Goldsturmer's tone became reverent "£10,000." "Can she pay?" said Gorman, "not that it's any affair of mine whether she can or not."
It is a good thing for us at times to compare what we have done with what we could have done, had we been better and wiser; it may make us try in the future to raise our abilities to the level of our opportunities. Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached.
Laurie colored up, but answered frankly, "Why, you see I often hear you calling to one another, and when I'm alone up here, I can't help looking over at your house, you always seem to be having such good times. I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are.
"I reckon if you'd go talk to him," he persisted, turning his head so that Langford could not see the suppressed rage in his eyes, "you might be able to make a deal with him." "I don't wish to deal with him. I have decided not to bother Doubler at present. And I have no desire to talk with Dakota. Frankly, my dear Duncan, I don't like the man."
"Oh, I've heard that," the young man replied, "before!" "There it is then. You've heard everything before. You've heard me of course before, in my country, often enough." "Oh, never too often," he protested; "I'm sure I hope I shall still hear you again and again." "But what good then has it done you?" the girl went on as if now frankly to amuse him. "Oh, you'll see when you know me."
Some time after leaving Strasburg she said to me: ``I don't think you caught my name at the station. To this I frankly replied that I had not. She then repeated it; and I found her to be a distinguished leader in New York and Parisian society, the wife of an American widely known.
'One sees there little miracles of work, he said; 'that is what makes a good workman; it kindles a spark. We asked him how he managed in La Fere. 'I am married, he said, 'and I have my pretty children. But frankly, it is no life at all. From morning to night I pledge a pack of good enough fellows who know nothing. It faired as the night went on, and the moon came out of the clouds.
Root-beer had been Mitchell's main intoxicant heretofore, but as he and the noisy Miss Dunlap sipped the effervescing wine over their ice-cream, they pledged themselves to enjoy Monday evenings together, and she told him, frankly: "Mitch, you're the nickel-plated entertainer, and I'll never miss another Monday eve unless I'm in the shops or the round-house. You certainly have got class."
I would rather at its lowest, as a matter of business be known for having helped them to some kind of footing than send in a round bill to my client or another. I gain more in the end. Frankly, I mean to prove, that it's a lawyer's interest to be human. 'Because, now, see! said Fenellan, 'here's the case.
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