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Since you own this book, look at page 100. If I had kept silent they would have accused me of being a coward. I protested naively, that is to say brutally. And I did well. I think that one ought never begin the attack; but when one answers, one must try to kill cleanly one's enemy. Such is my system. Frankness is part of loyalty; why should it be less perfect in blame than in praise?
The subject of age, always shrouded in a seemly and decorous modesty in England, and especially since, a few years previously, an eminent professor of medicine had unloosed the alarming theory of "Too old at forty", was suddenly ripped out of its prudish coverings. One generation of men began to talk with thoroughly engaging frankness and largeness about their age.
"And now," observed Katherine, again rising and addressing the chair with charming frankness, "I stand ready to prepare an article upon any other subject which the committee may assign me." "Is the committee ready with another topic?" the president inquired.
Collapse of the Movement. Tortuous Diplomacy of the Spaniards. The attempt, of course, excited and alarmed the Spaniards, and gave a new turn to their tortuous diplomacy. In reading the correspondence of the Spanish Governor, Baron Carondelet, both with his subordinates and with his superiors, it is almost amusing to note the frankness with which he avows his treachery.
Every man receives every comer, and treats him with repasts as large as his ability can possibly furnish. When the whole stock is consumed, he who has treated so hospitably guides and accompanies his guest to the next house, though neither of them invited. Nor avails it, that they were not; they are there received, with the same frankness and humanity.
Moreover, occasional gleams of ambition broke forth from amid his quiet thoughtfulness, which shewed, that beneath a cold exterior there lurked a mind of no ordinary cast. This constitutional reserve made him select in his choice of friends, but with those to whom he granted the privilege of intimacy, he was all confidence and frankness.
In any case, if you are so certain of success, you can't object to the fulfilment of your wishes resting on so sure a contingency!" "That has nothing to do with it. I did not say how long success might not be deferred, and I am unwilling to wait in these circumstances." "Ah! delightful frankness!" he returned derisively, and I looked away from him into the fire.
When it came to his turn to speak, he addressed the sovereigns with the frankness of a soldier, but with the tone of dejection and despair. "I am a Moor," said he, "and of Moorish lineage, and am alcayde of the fair towns and castles of Purchena and Paterna. These were entrusted to me to defend, but those who should have stood by me have lost all strength and courage and seek only for security.
Can't you spare a poor man a trifle?" "You look as if you drank," replied Conrad, with brutal frankness. "Your nose is red." "That's owing to a skin disease. I have belonged to the Temperance Society for five years." "Humph! you don't look like it. Why don't you work?" "Because I can find nothing to do." Here a contemptible suggestion offered itself to Conrad.
The General had been more favorably impressed with Zibeline's appearance than he cared to show. The generous action of this beautiful girl, her frankness, her ease of manner, her cleverness in repartee, were likely to attract the attention of a man of his character.
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