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He was a Frenchman, and he had his vanity, and no doubt the frank admiration of his brilliant pupil appealed to it vividly in moments of conjugal depression. Charlotte herself must have had some attraction for M. Héger. Madame perceived the appeal and the attraction, and she was jealous; therefore her interpretation of appearances could not have been so unflattering to Charlotte as she made out.
She showed an unflattering surprise. "Why, I didn't know you ever thought about such things." He looked at her askance, dimly amused. "High opinion you have of me!" She looked annoyed at herself and said with a genuine good-will in her voice, "Why, Arnold, you know I've always liked you." "You like me, but you don't think much of me," he diagnosed her, "and you show your good sense."
And many of the gentlemen of England seem to have been of the same mind, if we may judge from the number of delightful old country-houses set amid pleasant scenes that time and war and fire have spared to us. Macaulay draws a very unflattering picture of the old country squire, as of the parson. His untruths concerning the latter I have endeavoured to expose in another place.
The Four Georges is in a vein of delicate satire, and presents a rather unflattering picture of four of England's rulers and of the courts in which they moved. Both these works are remarkable for their exquisite style, their gentle humor, their keen literary criticisms, and for the intimate knowledge and sympathy which makes the' people of a past age live once more in the written pages.
Ida could have alleged several reasons, but they would have been unflattering, so she only said feebly, 'Oh, I really like you very much, and I enjoy talking about German literature with you. Tell me more about Schiller you know his poetry so well and Jean Paul. I never can quite understand the German idolatry of him. He is too much in the clouds for me.
I didn't want a person should know anything about it till I could put it into her own hands, and then you went and came. Now the whole charm of it is gone. Oh, dear!" Montgomery ignored her unflattering remarks, and, lifting the casket, exclaimed: "H-h-h-heavy! H-h-heavier 'n lead. What you s-s-s-suppose is in it? Where'd you find it? W-w-w-when?"
Everybody wondered at her audacity, and her name was accompanied by all sorts of unflattering epithets. Her whole life was passed in review by these people, and they all laughed contemptuously and insulted her and grew quite hot over the argument. They would have liked to have her there to tell her what they thought of her and see what she would say.
But so headlong was he in the attempt, and so misguided, that presently he overshot his mark by dropping an unflattering word concerning Crispin, whereby he attributed to the Tavern Knight's influence and example the degenerate change that had of late been wrought in him. Cynthia's eyes grew hard as he spoke, and had he been wise he had better served his cause by talking in another vein.
Listening to Eustace Hignett's story of his blighted romance, Sam had formed an unflattering opinion of this Wilhelmina Bennett who had broken off her engagement simply because on the day of the marriage his cousin had been short of the necessary wedding garment. He had, indeed, thought a little smugly how different his goddess of the red hair was from the object of Eustace Hignett's affections.
"Do you know, you're the very first as has ever proposed to me." "I was thinkin' as much," said the unflattering Palmerston. "Come to that, you was the first as ever offered marriage to me." "But I didn't! I mean," urged Fancy, "it was only in joke." "Joke or not," said Palmerston, "you can't deny it." Suddenly weakening, he let slip his advantage.
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