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If a handsome young man loves you, and you love him, why, you ought to marry him if he hadn't a dollar in the world!" Gertie and the worldly-wise Bess laughed at their younger sister's enthusiasm. "Now, there's Rex Lyon, for instance," persisted Eve, absolutely refusing to be silenced.
Sharp sarcasms, worldly-wise predictions, kind messages of approval, kind cautions, passed from mouth to mouth, or in private correspondence from high quarters, which showed that the movement was watched. But for some time the authorities spoke neither good nor bad of it publicly.
Hers was a child's affection the first love of a heart still immature, and not yet made suspicious of itself by contact with others less innocent. Parflete had been too worldly-wise not to guard and value at its true price a disposition so graceful in its very essence.
Miss Rylance had grown worldly-wise since her introduction to London society, that particular and agreeable section of upper-middle class life which prides itself upon cleverness rather than wealth, and which spices its conversation with a good deal of smart personality.
"Douglas has taken up a saying that my cousin brought with him: 'What you don't know won't hurt you! I think that before he left, Harley had begun to suspect that all was not well between my husband and myself, and he felt it necessary to give me a little friendly counsel. He was tactful, and politely vague, but I understood him my worldly-wise young cousin.
Far from advising him, as a worldly-wise counsellor would have done, to struggle against a passion which did not promise to prove fortunate, she bade him cherish the image of the one he so ardently loved with perfect trust, that if that woman were indeed his other self, that separate half which makes man's full complement, he would, in spite of all adverse circumstances, be drawn to her, by mysterious and invisible cords, until their union was consummated.
And all the years that lay behind her, had they been meant for anything else, at all, than to lead her back to him at the right moment? Ah, if she only had a little more experience, if she were a little more worldly-wise! She would have liked to possess the capability of marking out for herself a definite course. She asked herself which would be the wiser to be reserved or yielding?
She was told that this occurred because she was a stranger, or out of respect to her husband's memory, and she placed more trust at first in these statements than a less modest or more worldly-wise woman would have done. Soon her credulity ceased. She despised her own beauty because it was made a gazing stock.
He was not lying in expressing his surprise: a visit from Christophe was the last thing in the world that he expected: and if he was too worldly-wise not to know that the visit was of set material purpose, he took it as a reason the more for welcoming him, as it was, in fact, a tribute to his power. "And you have come from Germany?
But, like many an older and more worldly-wise person, he pretended to be thrown into raptures by it, and, at every pause in the playing, would say, "Beautiful! a'n't it?" "That's prime!" or "Splendid!" or "The best I ever heerd."
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