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But his mother made no reply, and they walked home. Next day she insisted on going again to the same place, and again she was obviously on the look-out. Horace grew more and more puzzled by her demeanour. And when the third day came, and once more Mrs. Errington called him to set forth to the Serpentine, he said to her, with a boy's bluntness "D'you want to meet someone there?" Mrs.
I then gave him a succinct history of the whole transactions, between me, Enoch, the bishop and the earl; for I was almost as angry with the first as with the other two. He heard me to the end, and asked such questions for elucidation as he thought necessary. He then said 'Mr. Trevor, you are already acquainted with the plainness, and what you perhaps have thought the bluntness, of my character.
Her mind was at the same time alive to our worldly conventions when other people came under its light; she sketched them and their views in her brief words between the gasps, with perspicuous, humorous bluntness, as vividly as her twitched eyebrows indicated the laugh. Gower Woodseer she read startlingly, if correctly. Carinthia could not leave her.
They were to storm intrenchments, defended by the trained soldiers of Europe; yet not a man flinched when Stark, with a soldier's bluntness and fire, pointed his sword toward the enemy's redoubt and exclaimed, "There, my lads, are the Hessians! To-night our flag floats over yonder hill, or Molly Stark is a widow!"
Their expression is generally grave, and even austere, and possesses much character: this may pass either for honest bluntness or fierce determination. The long black hair, the grave and much-lined features, and the dark complexion, called to my mind old portraits of James I. On the road we met with none of that humble politeness so universal in Chiloe.
And yet he felt unreasonably that she ought to have known there was a blind clamour in him against the bluntness of her sisterly perception. His silence was so prolonged that Madame de Châteauvieux was startled by it. She slipped her hand into his arm. 'Eustace! Still no answer. 'Have I said anything to annoy you Eustace? Won't you let your old sister have her dreams?
Henrietta was Livia's guest, her husband having hurried away to Vienna: 'To get money! money! her angry bluntness explained his absence, and dealt its blow at the sudden astounding poverty into which they had fallen. She was compelled to practise an excessive, an incredible economy: 'think of the smallest trifles! so that her Chillon travelled unaccompanied, they were separated.
She asked the momentous question calmly enough, her mouth rigid, her eyes challenging him to speak the whole truth. He moistened his dry lips, realizing that he was being forced into an apparently brutal bluntness he had sincerely hoped to avoid. "Then," he replied, with quiet impressiveness, "I fear such deliberate action would forfeit my respect."
This has exposed learning, and especially classical learning, to reproach. Men have seen that it might exist without mental superiority, without vigor, without good taste, and without utility. But in such cases classical learning has only not inspired natural talent, or, at most, it has but made original feebleness of intellect, and natural bluntness of perception, something more conspicuous.
This bluntness of line, however, was balanced by a great delicacy of tint the pink and white complexion of a girl, indeed enhanced by the bright reddish hair, and quick gray eyes. The figure was also a little out of drawing, so to speak; it was tall and loosely-jointed. The general impression was one of agility and power.
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