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If it be true that the uncertainty of the future alone makes living endurable, then Bart Coogan was just now having the time of his life! With his characteristic directness, Douglass came straight to the point without delay: "Mr. Coogan, I have just ascertained that you are the putative owner of the O Bar O brand, the registry and record standing in your name.
Such a government is most certainly secured when the will of the people, or of their best natural exponents, has some large share in making it; but such free governments have sometimes fallen short, while on the other hand despotic power, wielded with judgment and consistency, has created at times a great sea commerce and a brilliant navy with greater directness than can be reached by the slower processes of a free people.
Hints of a visit to Rainham followed, which at first he ignored; repeated in subsequent epistles with a greater directness, their prospect filled him with a pleasure so strangely mixed with pain that his pride took alarm. He thought it necessary to disparage the scheme in a letter to Lightmark, of a coldness which disgusted himself.
He says the words with a simplicity and directness that makes the girl almost catch her breath. For these two were not on intimate terms with each other, not even terms of intimate speaking. Nothing had passed between them yet but the merest society phrases, and before a certain quiet dinner one month back neither knew of the other's existence.
The intrigue would be hateful to him no less as treason to the Crown than as a trespass upon the good name and dignity of his own family. That ideal of simplicity and directness which he regarded as the very essence of domestic morality had been blurred and marred within his own home by the taint of that poison which he believed to threaten the perversion of English life.
But the wit which plays while it wounds, which while saying one thing means another, which deals in far-off suggestion and remote allusion, this was something entirely unsuited to the directness and energy of his intellect. Moreover, some of his most marked literary defects were seen here exaggerated and unrelieved. In many of his novels there is prolixity in the introduction.
I say, glad to give my chafed soul vent in words, and looking at him with that full, cold directness which one can employ only toward such as are absolutely indifferent to one. "How she must have snubbed you!" For an instant, he hesitates; then
And now," she added with a simple, business-like directness, "I have a suggestion to offer: "You ransack Baxter Street to-morrow for Dickey Series C, and come with it to this address," and she placed a small card in his hand.
The peasant's gravity, directness, and carelessness a kind of uncouthness which is neither graceless nor, in any intolerable English sense, vulgar are to be found in the unceremonious moments of every cisalpine woman, however elect her birth and select her conditions.
Harrington," persisted Miss Thorn, "then you have a strong opinion against your two parties acting together for the common good." "Not exactly that," said Vancouver, embarrassed between the directness of Joe's question and a very strong impression that he had better not say anything against John Harrington. "Then what do you believe? Will you please give this cup to Miss Schenectady?"
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