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Canby exhaled a breath of relief. He began to feel that it might be possible to like this man. "Ass!" said Potter, striding up and down the room. "Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass!" And Canby felt easier and happier. He foresaw, too, that there would be no cabling to Rostand, a thing he had naively feared, for a moment, as imminent.
Enguerrand, who, thanks to his mother's care, was beginning to be an intelligent and interesting child, though he was still painfully like M. de Talbrun, was always with them in the coupe, kindhearted Giselle thinking that nothing could be so likely to assuage grief as the prattle of a child. She was astonished she was touched to the heart, by what she called naively the conversion of Jacqueline.
He grew pale and did not venture to look at her. "Make you responsible! Oh, how can you misunderstand me so cruelly!" His consternation was so palpable that it touched her in spite of herself. Her face had been as naively miserable as a child's, now it softened, and she spoke more kindly. "Don't mind what I say. To-night I am tired ... have a headache ... anything you like."
What made it especially significant to Ambrose was the fact that the girl's sad eyes instantaneously singled him out when he entered. As he sat in front of her he was aware that they were dwelling on him. When he caught her glance, the eyes naïvely suggested that she had a communication to make to him, if she dared! The fun had not yet commenced.
Thus, in the course of one week la Peyrade became Brigitte's god; and she proved to him by the most naively nefarious arguments that fortune should be seized when it offered itself. "Well, if there is any sin in the business," she said to him in the middle of the garden, "you can confess it." "The devil!" cried Thuillier, "a man owes himself to his relatives, and you are one of us now."
In some of these Biblical scenes the figures are naively dressed in mediaeval garb, but many of them have great beauty and pathos. The under-pieces of the seats, cornices, and sides are decorated with all kinds of drolleries, and not a few coarse subjects, such as a man catching hold of a pig by its tail, faces ludicrously distorted, three heads in one, a dog setting its back at a wild boar, &c.
"I thought you or or Adrian were under it, and I almost fell over. I'd have fainted if I hadn't thought you might need me." The big man laid his arm across the shaking shoulders and drew her to him. "I guess it was Adrian before your old dad." "No I don't think so." She continued naively: "Adrian's so quick; I don't think he'd be caught like that. It was you I thought of too."
Jean-Christophe wagged his head doubtfully, and Melchior admitted that he could not resist it when he had money in his hands. Jean-Christophe thought for a moment and said: "You see, father, we must..." He stopped. "What then?" "I am ashamed..." "Of whom?" asked Melchior naively. "Of you." Melchior made a face and said: "That's nothing."
Looking naively at me as though he were convinced that I was very glad to see and hear him, he informed me that he had long been separated from his wife and gave her three-quarters of his salary; that she lived in the town with his children, a boy and a girl, whom he adored; that he loved another woman, a widow, well educated, with an estate in the country, but was rarely able to see her, as he was busy with his work from morning till night and had not a free moment.
How great a blunder Darwin made when he so naively accepted the teachings of Malthus without examination may be seen from the fact that there is no need to employ the spectacles of Malthus in order to detect the struggle for existence in nature, the contradiction between the innumerable mass of germs which nature produces in such prodigality and the slight number which can manage to reach maturity, a contradiction which resolves itself into an apparently grim fight for existence.
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