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Nixon, said the young man, 'I will hear it thankfully; and indeed, if otherwise, I must listen to it whether I will or no, since I have at present no choice of company or of conversation. 'Nay, I have but little to say, said Nixon, affecting to give to his sullen and dogged manner the appearance of an honest bluntness; 'I am as little apt to throw away words as any one.
As we are now privileged to observe him, he is as easy to understand as the multiplication table, as little devious and, alas! as lacking in suavity. Yet, let us be fair to George. Mere innocence of guile, of verbal trickery, had not alone sufficed for his passionate bluntness in the present crisis.
"Have you any advice to give me?" "Not a word. I'm not even able to give myself sensible counsel. Good day to you!" "Then you do not care for my company longer on the way?" "I do not. Excuse my bluntness, but these are parlous times for wayfarers and I cannot afford to have a tin can tied to me as I go about." "And you are absolutely selfish?" called Chick.
"Dad," said Hilda, with characteristic bluntness and lack of preface, "they're in a dickens of a mess." "Bonbright?" "And Ruth." "Huh!..." Lightener's grunt seemed to say that it was nothing but what he expected. "Well go ahead." Hilda went ahead. Her father punctuated her story with sundry grunts, her mother with exclamations of astonishment and sorrow.
The voice was Stoller's, who got into step with him and followed the first with a second question. "Made up your mind to go to the manoeuvres with me?" His bluntness made it easy for March to answer: "I'm afraid my wife couldn't stand the drive back and forth." "Come without her." "Thank you. It's very kind of you. I'm not certain that I shall go at all.
He commits nobody but himself, and therefore he can afford to speak with a bluntness which is denied to those whose utterances commit many thousands of other people.
Louis, who liked the honest bluntness of the Quaker, would have willingly prolonged the conversation, simply for the sake of the argument, but just then Minnie entered, holding in her hand a bunch of flowers, and started to show them to her father, before she perceived that any company was in the room.
She looked at him keenly, silent and thoughtful for a little. Then she said abruptly: "Have you told any one yet of your discovery?" So that was it. His eyes grew hard again with the sneer in them. "No," he informed her with a bluntness full of finality. "You spoke of the hogs with their feet in the trough. You are going to let no one in with you?"
Quintin Manx, a lord of fleets. Old Lady Dacier's bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners. Percy was plainly called a donkey, for hanging off and on with a handsome girl of such expectations as Miss Asper.
His virtues are all his own all plain, homebred, and unaffected. His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. His extravagance savors of his generosity, his quarrelsomeness of his courage, his credulity of his open faith, his vanity of his pride, and his bluntness of his sincerity. They are all the redundancies of a rich and liberal character.
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