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Was this to hide his tears or his laughter? O sancta simplicitas! The same day, after luncheon, Countess Flamma turned to me with the question "Would you mind teaching me the process of inoculation? I am greatly interested in roses, and should like to see how the scion is set into the stock."
"Sancta simplicitas!" he exclaimed; and as she turned a puzzled frown on him he added: "I don't think I ever heard you say a cruel thing before." "Cruel?" "Well watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell."
You perceive that she had come to be tender of the feelings of this earnest and scoundrelly lover, believing in his sincerity and not in his villainy. "Surely some of those people will know," thought Clara, with a trust in men and dignitaries which makes one say sancta simplicitas. "If they do not know," she added, with a prayer in her heart, "God will discover it to them."
"S-s-sancta simplicitas! Oh, you, sweet, innocent, Arcadian people and you never guessed! You n-never saw the cloven hoof?" Montanelli stood up. "Am I to understand, Signor Rivarez, that you wrote both sides of the controversy yourself?" "It was a shame, I know," the Gadfly answered, looking up with wide, innocent blue eyes.
When two such as thee and I meet, with affections such as we ought to have towards each other, thou shouldst rejoice to see my peaceable demeanour, and I should be glad to see thy strength and ability to protect me in it. T. No. 269. Aevo rarissima nostro Simplicitas. OVID, Ars Am. lib. i. ver. 241. And brings our old simplicity again.
O sancta simplicitas! Mary longed to say; that Cynthia was a very ordinary child. Like to talk to him, indeed! Of course she did; and to use her girl's weapons on him; and to wonder, in an almost awestruck delight, at their effect on this dazzling hero. Well, the guilelessness of heroes!
Clerambault lying there half-unconscious, thought of the old woman who threw her fagot on the wood stacked around John Huss ... Sancta simplicitas. Vaucoux had not attempted to get away, but let them take the revolver out of his hand without resistance. They held his arms fast, and he stood looking at his victim, whose eyes met his; each thought of his son.
First come 'the simple, or, as the word means, 'open. There is a sancta simplicitas, a holy ignorance of evil, which is sister to the highest wisdom. It is well to be ignorant as well as 'innocent of much transgression'; and there is no more mistaken and usually insincere excuse for going into foul places than the plea that it is best to know the evil and so choose the good.
"Sancta simplicitas!" he exulted, "and did you think to play the part at such short notice?" He fell at her feet and covered her hands with kisses. "My Fulvia! My poor child! come with me, come away from here," he entreated. "I know not what mad hazard has brought us thus together, but I thank God on my knees for the encounter.
Sancta simplicitas! was the thought within him. "I am not angry," he went on; "be reasonable and try to sleep." She started upright, the light masses of her hair floating about her like silken sea-weed lifted on an invisible tide. "Don't talk like that! I can't endure to be humoured like a baby. I am unhappy because I can't see why all these wretched questions should be dragged into our life.
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