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"I want to beg of you," he said, still without looking up, "to look upon me with suspicion, aversion, and distrust; to disbelieve any good you may hear of me; to hate me if you can; to treat me as long as you live with uniform coldness and indifference." "I understand," she replied with icy brevity, "you think there is danger of my treating you otherwise."
We realized that we were in the presence not only of a soldier, a linguist and a diplomat, but of a trained scientist accustomed to exact research. "Ice!" repeated the Prince. "Did I see any ice? No." Nothing could have been more decisive, more final than the clear, simple brevity of the Prince's "No." He had seen no ice. He knew he had seen no ice. He said he had seen no ice.
Thus, they must be perfectly decent. This is the only thing we have a right to ask of realistic writers. But you say nothing against the form and executions of "Mire." ... And so I suppose I have been decent. I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. This is due to habit and the brevity of my work.
The line she took, with one exception, was keen brevity. She cross-examined Thomas Hayes as follows. "One, two, three, four, this makes the fifth accident on the Fourth of July, in the two papers I have just read," said Jenny.
His voice was short and authoritative; it held compulsion. In that moment of emergency he was a boy no longer, but a man, cool and strong and undismayed a man to command obedience. "Go quickly!" he said. "Remember it's up to you to warn them. This other is my job. Good-bye!" He spoke without turning his head; yet the very brevity of his speech seemed to give her strength.
The August sunlight illumined Mr. Gunning's folly, and his bulging portmanteau, packed as brutally as only a man in a passion can pack; when he reached the hall, it also with equal inappropriateness irradiated the short figure and seedy tidiness of the dealer who had been his confederate in the purchase of the mare. "What did the vet say, Brennan?" said Mr. Gunning, with the brevity of ill humour.
The old man heard from afar the younger man's footstep, which fell on the earth with a firmer and more decided tread than that of the softly-stepping priests of Serapis, and he greeted him warmly with signs and words. Publius thanked him coolly and gravely, and said, dryly enough and with incisive brevity: "My time is limited.
I certainly should have reason to be ashamed if I could not be fair to those whom, for the sake of brevity and convenience, I will call Free Traders, though I do not altogether admit the correctness of that designation.
"What on earth is that?" asked Gordon. "That new horse's tail; it comes off," replied Aaron with brevity. Then he chewed. "Comes off?" Aaron nodded, still chewing. Gordon rose from the table saying something under his breath. "That ain't all," said Aaron, still with an air of sly triumph. "What else, for Heaven's sake?" cried Gordon. "Well, he cribs," replied Aaron laconically. Then he chewed.
There were days when Jim wore an air of unusual capacity and resolve, spoke with more brevity like one pressed for time, and took often on his tongue such phrases as "Longhurst told me so this morning," or "I had it straight from Longhurst himself."
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