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"Yet, pardon me, if I confess that to me it proves no more than that you acted as a generous enemy. Pardon my bluntness also but what profit do you look to make from gaining my friendship?" "You are frank, Monsieur," he said, colouring slightly, "I will be none the less so. I am a frondeur, an anti-cardinalist. In a word, I am a gentleman and a Frenchman.
I have set down these private passages, as you perceive, without correction; thanks to you, the public has them in their bluntness. They are almost a list of the man's faults, for it is rather these that I was seeking: with his virtues, with the heroic profile of his life, I and the world were already sufficiently acquainted.
"No, you don't, Jenkins," replied he, with good-humored bluntness. "But I'm going to have it, all the same." Discriminating prices and freight rates against his grain, discriminating freight rates against his flour; the courts either powerless to aid him or under the rule of bandits; and, on the top of all, a strike within two weeks after Jenkins left such was the situation.
By nature frank to bluntness, she was not good at hiding dislikes; and her uneasy visitors soon realized with relief that they were not wanted here. Fanny Carr still came for a time. For some reason that Ethel could not understand, this shrewd person seemed reluctant to let go her hold as a friend. She was most solicitous about Joe and tried to come when he was at home.
Abundantly as she was used to it impossible not to be after twenty-eight solid years it surprised her to be told it with such bluntness, and by a woman. "It's very kind of you to think so," she said. "Why, you're very lovely," said Mrs. Wilkins. "Quite, quite lovely." "I hope," said Mrs. Arbuthnot pleasantly, "you make the most of it." Lady Caroline then stared at Mrs. Arbuthnot.
All the bluntness and coarseness of feeling in the workmanship of fig. 14 have disappeared on this small scale, and all the subtle refinements in the broad masses of fig. 12 have vanished.
"I know of no other means whereby to temporarily still the clamorings of conscience." Alwyn flushed darkly. "Conscience!" he began in rather a resentful tone, "Aye, conscience!" repeated Heliobas firmly. "There is such a thing. Do you profess to be wholly without it?" Alwyn deigned no reply the ironical bluntness of the question annoyed him. "You have formed a very unjust opinion of me, Mr.
On the eve of his departure he had sent the following brilliant document to the Emperor-elect as a reply to an attempt to entrap him to Peking, a document the meaning of which was clear to every educated man. Its exquisite irony mixed with its bluntness told all that was necessary to tell and forecasted the inevitable fall. It runs: For the Kind Perusal of the Great President:
"And what were you doing at her house, may I ask?" her aunt queried further. The geniality of this interrogation hardly concealed its crudity; Jane felt herself accused of an incongruous and inexplicable intrusion into a region of unaccustomed splendor and distinction. "Oh, she was collecting money for her working-girls' lunchroom," volunteered Rosy, with a cruel bluntness.
He was always dignified, calm, and courteous, but he had an alarmingly direct way with him, especially when he was annoyed. He was simple almost to bluntness, but now and then would use a grave irony which must have made listening ears tingle.
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