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"Not a line," answered the Baroness, with great naivete; "I never saw them." "Pauvre enfant!" said Madame Carolina; "I will employ you, then, while you are here." "I never read," said the Baroness; "I cannot bear it. I like poetry and romances, but I like somebody to read to me."

Such were the commandments of the god of France, less astonishing in themselves than the terrible naivete which made him bequeath them to posterity, as if posterity also must believe in him.

People good people think quite differently about art now, don't they, Mr. Langham? She spoke with perfect naïveté. He saw more and more of the child in her, in spite of that one striking development of her art. 'They call it the handmaid of religion, he answered, smiling. Rose made a little face. 'I shouldn't, she said, with frank brevity. 'But then there's something else.

Most of his lies are sewn with white thread.... In spite of this relative naïveté, he is very dangerous, because he daily commits acts, abuses of confidence, and treachery, against which it is all the more difficult to safeguard oneself because one hardly suspects the possibility. With all that, Nechayeff is a force, because he is an immense energy.

At the early age of thirty-four he was appointed 'to the first office for honour in the University, the Regius Professorship of Divinity. Then with the same delightful naïveté he tells us, 'On being raised to this distinguished office I immediately applied myself with great eagerness to the study of divinity. One would have thought that his theological studies should have commenced before he undertook the duties of a divinity professorship.

I had reached the door of the apartment, when Miss Vernon, whose movements were sometimes so rapid as to seem almost instinctive, overtook me, and, catching hold of my arm, stopped me with that air of authority which she could so whimsically assume, and which, from the naivete and simplicity of her manner, had an effect so peculiarly interesting. "Stop, Mr.

She answered in as light and bantering a spirit as she fancied it deserved, and said she would be glad to have him look in upon her at work whenever he felt the inclination and his business gave him the opportunity. He responded at once by presenting himself at her home with all his disarming naivete.

We have therefore nothing mysterious, nothing supernatural before us, but an extremely interesting case of an abnormal mental development, and this unusual power working in a mind which is entirely naïve and sincere. How long will this naïveté and sincerity last? This is no psychological, but a social problem.

Coquettishly lying back in a corner of the sofa, her head carelessly supported by an arm the form and whiteness of which could be seen nearly to the elbow through the wide, open sleeve of a black velvet dressing-gown, her Cinderella foot in its dainty slipper of Russia leather resting on a cushion of orange satin, the handsome Hungarian had the look of a portrait by Laurence or Winterhalter, plus the naivete of the pose.

Then they speak straight out of their hearts, sometimes crudely, sometimes with a naïveté which seems laughable; and they act on sudden impulses, accepting the consequences when they come.