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In my wife's name. . . . She behaved tactlessly, I admit it as a gentleman. . . ." Nikolay Sergeitch walked about the room, heaved a sigh, and went on: "Then you want me to have it rankling here, under my heart. . . . You want my conscience to torment me. . . ." "I know it's not your fault, Nikolay Sergeitch," said Mashenka, looking him full in the face with her big tear-stained eyes.
It has the carven look that one wants. Imogen's hair lends itself wonderfully to those long, sweeping lines." But, Jack, once having expressed his admiration for Imogen, seemed tactlessly bent on emphasizing his admiration for the mere craftswoman of the occasion. "Well, it's as if you had formed the image into which I'm to blow the breath of life.
"What, to meet that missing Boy of yours?" asked Jack, in a chaffing tone, so tactlessly loud that it must have been distinctly audible to the ladies in the adjoining room, the door of which was open. "Isn't that rather a mad idea? You were vaguely engaged to meet your pal, I believe you said, on the night after your arrival, at the Hôtel de Paris, for dinner.
He was disturbed only to the point of feeling that he had spoken tactlessly, and proceeded to repair the error. "I kept it dark for obvious reasons. If Miss Strange didn't tell you about it, it's because she isn't the kind of person to talk of an incident in which her own part was so noble. I'll give you the whole story now." "I should be obliged to you," Conquest said, dryly.
"He'll have himself to drop," her mother tactlessly pointed out. "I guess he won't do much flying around in the dark, Mary V. Not if he's got sense enough to come in when it rains. You go to bed, and don't be setting out there in the mosquitoes. They're thick, to-night." "Well, for gracious sake, mom! It's perfectly easy to fly at night. Over in France they always "
On the whole, Von Tirpitz thus made no attempt to conceal his feeling that the purpose of the House mission was extremely distasteful to him. The other members of the Government, while not so tactlessly hostile, were not particularly encouraging.
"'Gene don't keer much fur ye ter be alive nohow, Watt Wyatt," one of the others suggested tactlessly, "'count o' Minta Elladine Biggs." Eugene Barker's off-hand phrase was incongruous with his sudden gravity and his evident rancor as he declared: "I ain't carin' fur sech ez Watt Wyatt.
"My father," said Lewis. "Ah, I am so pleased to hear. My father and he met often in Paris, when they were attached to their different embassies. My father was in the German service." "Your mother was Russian, was she not?" Lewis asked tactlessly, impelled by he knew not what motive. "Ah, how did you know?" Mr. Marker smiled in reply, with the slightest raising of the eyebrows.
Yet baffled anxiety often leads to irritation, and irritation, in Oliver's case, was being tactlessly pushed into rage. He said little, for he was a boy of few words, nor, so he told himself, could he really be rude to Cousin Jasper no matter how foolishly obstinate he was. "But I'll get out of it somehow," he reflected stormily as he gulped down his breakfast and strode out into the garden.
Mosely would have forgiven her even more warmly, because it was a woman taken in actual adultery who was forgiven, while Charity had tactlessly fought the charge and demanded vindication instead of winsomely appealing for pity. By a roundabout road of self-surrender she had come to the same destination that she might have reached by the straight path of self-indulgence.
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