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Can you imagine how it would feel if to-day you were to hear the first story of your life? "All ready?" asked Helma. The silence in the room said plainer than words that all was ready for the World Story. This time it was a story about a man named Saint Francis, and a story after Eric's own heart. Almost as fast as the story went the work of Helma's fingers.
This, I suppose, needs no application to make it plainer. Distinct and confused, what.
Shrewd form players and the plainer sort had taken liberal fliers on them that was evident by the way the shouting mounted in the free field, and the jam in front of the betting ring. Not a few of the professional layers had turned their slates and were out on watch for the event that would mean thousands in or out of their pockets.
It was plain enough at the first glimpse of the deadly white, uncovered face, in the cruel glare of gas. But it became plainer still as, with sad, unflinching eyes, she watched and listened while, for the last time, the jurymen answered to their names. Now they were done. The foreman shifted nervously in his place.
Thorpe, as Isabella was going at the same time with James, was therefore obliged to speak plainer. "Well, ma'am, what do you say to it? Can you spare me for an hour or two? Shall I go?" "Do just as you please, my dear," replied Mrs. Allen, with the most placid indifference. Catherine took the advice, and ran off to get ready.
And yet in another sense, and that plainer and nearer, every man of men, who wishes truly, must be right. He is right to himself, and in the measure of his sagacity and candour. That let him do in all sincerity and zeal, not sparing a thought for contrary opinions; that, for what it is worth, let him proclaim. Be not afraid; although he be wrong, so also is the dead, stuffed Dagon he insults.
From experience I should define an English Philosophical Society as all the people in town who don't know anything about philosophy. The academic and university classes are never there. The audience is only of plainer folk. In the United States and Canada at any evening lecture a large sprinkling of the audience are in evening dress.
In spite of himself, Rufus began to look at her less sternly. "So you call him 'Amelius', do you?" he said. "I note that, Miss, as an unfavourable sign to begin with. How long, if you please, has Amelius turned schoolmarm, for your young ladyship's benefit? Don't you understand? Well, you're not the only inhabitant of Great Britain who don't understand the English language. I'll put it plainer.
"I will marry you," Alice had said to him, not in words, but in acts and looks, which were plainer than words, "I will marry you for certain reasons of my own, which in my present condition make it seem that that arrangement will be more convenient to me than any other that I can make; but pray understand that there is no love mixed up with this.
'You! he said, 'you! John put out his hands. Oh, sire, Madame is in the right. I am a wicked man. I must make my brother amends. He must be saved. King Philip scratched his head. 'Who is in the dark if not I? I will deal with you presently, Mortain. But you, Madame, he turned hotly on the lady, 'you must be plainer. What is your zeal for the King of England?
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