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She still did with joy the things men did, and did them better than most men, but she was no longer blind to the stronger asset of her arresting beauty and the effect of its charm. She realized these newly discovered attributes naively and without vanity, but now instead of insisting on the equality of a man, she demanded the homage of a queen.
At length, catching sight of the water-colour portrait of Fan, which was hanging on the wall, he got up from his seat and placed himself before it. "It is a very beautiful picture, Miss Eden," he said with a smile, as Fan came to his side. "Yes, I think it is," she returned naively. "But that is the artist's work. I never had a dress like that I never had a dinner dress in my life.
I had taken her as a perfectly fresh and untainted being, naïvely unconscious even, of the elements, either good or bad, of which her own nature was composed, waiting only for the hand of a wise and skillful modeller, like myself, to bring her up to the highest condition of manners and morals.
"You!" exclaimed Foma, softly. "Isn't that so?" she asked, naively looking into his face. Foma was silent, his head bent on his breast. "Don't you believe that I am an old woman?" "I believe you; that is, I believe everything you may say; only this is not true!" said Foma, feelingly, in a low voice. "What is not true? What do you believe me?" "No! not this, but that. I excuse me!
It may be the one vocation in which you can succeed. People used to thank God for their sickness and pain at the same time naively praying Him to take back His gift. This inconsistency was due to a combination of ignorance and the good old human foible of blaming some one else.
Intestine disturbances, they naïvely believed, could be kept under some measure of control only by an aggressive foreign policy which should deceive the insurgent elements as to the resources of the government. Thus far, by hook or by crook, the armies, so far as they had been clothed and paid and fed at all, had been fed and paid and clothed by the administration at Paris.
They forced me to it much against my will.... But they are strong and I am weak, how could I deny them since they put me here. After all," he concluded naively, "perhaps it is the will of le bon Dieu, and He knows best, my child, He knows best." The shoes evidently refused to respond any further to the old man's efforts at polishing them.
No, you can't get rid of me that easy. I'm a regular adhesive plaster for sticking." "I don't want to get rid of you," she answered naïvely. "I'd be afraid without you. Will you promise to stay close all the time I sleep?" "Yes." "I know I won't sleep, but if you want me to try " "I do." She snuggled down into the blankets and was asleep in five minutes. Beaudry watched her with hungry eyes.
Crupps, who was undoubtedly his favourite, that Nathaniel bethought him of immortalizing the memory of both ladies by one bold stroke of fancy, as exemplified by this portentous granite monstrosity. On it the virtues of both wives were recorded, as it was touchingly and naïvely stated, by their "sorrowing husband with strict impartiality."
"There never was council yet that voted that." There was a pause, after which M. Moriaz resumed: "And so, my dear, you are persuaded that M. Larinski is still free, and that Mme. de Lorcy lied?" "Not at all; if she had lied, she would not have betrayed herself so naively just now. I accuse her of deceiving herself, or rather of having wished to deceive herself.
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