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"I came near getting married once," she said presently, with characteristic abruptness. "You!" cried Cynthia, looking around in amazement. "You see, I am franker than you, my dear though I never told any one else. I believe you can keep a secret." "Of course I can. Who was it anyone in Brampton, Miss Lucretia?" The question was out before Cynthia realized its import.
Two sons had died of the pestilence, and it sorely oppressed his soul that he had been unable to provide for their burial now his darlings would be lost to him in the other world also and forever. At the second halt the troubled father became franker still.
It was the execution of a deliberate resolve which had originated in her mind on the night of Lucy Merritt's departure, as she sat with her before the fire, listening to her fanciful talk about the advantages which might be expected to attend franker relations in love affairs between men and women.
I am quite certain that your society gives me far more pleasure than mine affords you." "Since I am relegated to woman's sphere I certainly shall not protest against that belief. I am now under no bonds to be distressingly frank." "You never would have been any franker than you wished to be. For the manifestation of that trait I shall have to depend on something very different."
Hella told me to-day for the first time that all the flowers on the table by her bed one Sunday in hospital had been sent by Lajos; and she did not wish to tell me at that time because he wished her to keep it a secret. This has made me rather angry, for I see that I have been much franker with her than she has been with me. September 16th.
Two sons had died of the pestilence, and it sorely oppressed his soul that he had been unable to provide for their burial now his darlings would be lost to him in the other world also and forever. At the second halt the troubled father became franker still.
It is well known that the part of the city on the other side of the Potsdam Gate was called the "Geheimerath-Quarter." Yet this superabundance of men in "secret" positions lent no touch of mystery to our cheerful street, shaded by the green of the forest. Franker, gayer, sometimes noisier children than its residents could not be found in Berlin.
If I thought so, I must remember that this, after all, was the twentieth and not the nineteenth century, and love was, no doubt, now quicker in growth, as well as franker in utterance than then. From Mrs. Leete I went to Edith. When I found her, it was first of all to take her by both hands and stand a long time in rapt contemplation of her face.
They availed themselves of it, to settle the constitution: the towns were repaired, the fortifications completed, Universities were founded or revived at Utrecht, Leyden and Franker; and the arts of peace began to be cultivated. Maurice inherited all the civil talents of his father; he had greater military skill, and at least equal ambition.
He was answered by Miss de Bassompierre in quite womanly sort; with intelligence, with a manner not indeed wholly disindividualized: a tone, a glance, a gesture, here and there, rather animated and quick than measured and stately, still recalled little Polly; but yet there was so fine and even a polish, so calm and courteous a grace, gilding and sustaining these peculiarities, that a less sensitive man than Graham would not have ventured to seize upon them as vantage points, leading to franker intimacy.
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