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Dick was a short, strongly built, powerful fellow, with a broad, honest countenance, bright blue eyes, and fair bushy beard and whiskers, a truer-hearted, braver seaman than Dick Driver never stepped.
Her eyes were fixed on the patient. "It is strange how much I admire him," she said to herself. "I never met a nobler, truer-hearted man." "Dorothy, come here," said the doctor. She went at once, and bent over him. "I am going," he said, looking at her. "Yes, Dr. Staunton," she answered. He closed his eyes again for a moment. "The wife," he murmured "does she know?"
A purer, sweeter, truer-hearted girl than Blanche I had never seen. There was an artlessness and innocence about her but rarely met with in young ladies of her age. Especially was she free from that worldliness and levity which so often mars young maidenhood.
"T'other chap was then cast adrift, and he was asked the same question. "`I've sailed with Bill, says he, `for nigh on six years, and never knew a truer-hearted shipmate, or a better seaman, says he; `and since it must be, here goes, says he, `to take our last cruise in company.
I know that natur' is weak human natur', I mean and that we should none of us vaunt of our gifts, whether red or white; but I do not think a truer-hearted lad lives on the lines than Jasper Western." "Bless you! bless you for that, Pathfinder!" burst forth from Mabel's very soul, while a flood of tears gave vent to emotions that were so varied while they were so violent.
Her thoughts gradually recurred to the old trouble Robin, and Robin's love for her, Robin, who, if she married him, would spend his life gladly in the effort to make her happy, where in the wide world would she find a better, truer-hearted man?
"That still may chance, if I am not better treated," answered Monazi with a flash of her eyes. "Will you dismiss yonder new wife of yours and give me back my place, and will you lift the curse of Nada off me, or will you not?" "As to the first," answered Umslopogaas, "learn, Monazi, that I will not dismiss my new wife, who at least is gentler-tongued and truer-hearted than you are.
I will say this, that if ever I were in such a plight as that which I pretended in the inn of Lobenstein, I should never wish to meet a more gallant protector or a truer-hearted gentleman than Colonel Etienne Gerard. I had never thought that I could feel for a Frenchman as I felt for you when I slipped the papers from your breast. 'But you took them, none the less.
"They are often our best friends who use the plainest speech," said Irene. "No, Margaret, I am not going to be angry with one whom I know to be true-hearted." "Not truer-hearted than your husband, Miss Irene; nor half so loving." "Why did you say that?" Margaret started at the tone of voice in which this interrogation was made. "Because I think so," she answered naively.
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