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Jane's heart suddenly sank. Because the unconscious blow had hurt she struck out, struck back with the first weapon she could lay hold of. "But you said a minute ago that Victor was a hypocritical demagogue." Davy flushed with confusion. He was in a franker mood now, however. "I'd like to think that," he replied. "But I don't honestly believe it."
We might just as well set up national altars and sacrifice victims, after the franker fashion of the ancients. Morally, the principles are precisely the same." "Scarcely; for our object is to benefit humanity." "And theirs. Poor humanity!" cried the Professor. "What crimes are we not ready to commit in thy name!" "That cannot be a crime which benefits mankind," argued Miss Du Prel.
He returned the pressure and then their palms separated. No franker sign of their love had ever passed between them. He went on very gravely: "Rowan was the most open nature I ever saw when he was a boy. I remember this now. I did not think of it then. I believe he was the happiest. You know we are all pantheists of some kind nowadays.
As for Spain itself, that country was more practised in duplicity even than the government of the Medici-Valois, and was of course more than a match at the game of deception for the franker politicians of England and Holland. The King of Navarre had meanwhile been looking on at a distance.
Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, "She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children."
For a moment Mrs. Horncastle was speechless and vacillating. She had often noticed before that it was part of the irony of the creation of such a simple nature as Barker's that he was not only open to deceit, but absolutely seemed to invite it. Instead of making others franker, people were inclined to rebuke his credulity by restraint and equivocation on their own part.
But if I met her face to face I think I would recognize her at once. Tell me, who is she?" "The baroness? How shall I tell you? She has been abroad for twenty years, and for the last two years she has lived here. In society she says she is a foreigner, but with me she is franker, and I know that she speaks Russian perfectly.
Wherever, in short, we recognize the Divine hand, we can but prostrate ourselves in humble adoration. In franker times, when people meant what they said, this creed was followed to its logical results. The dogmas of the literal inspiration of the Scripture, or of the infallibility of the Church, recognized the presence of a flawless perfection in the midst of utter weakness.
I daresay it's like," Julia threw off. "But how in the world" and Peter's interest grew franker "does Nick find time to paint?" "I don't know. That horrid man brought her." "Which horrid man?" he spoke as if they had their choice. "The one Nick thinks so clever the vulgar little man who was at your place that day and tried to talk to me.
Don't talk to me of feeling in a couple, within reach of one another and sniffing objections. Good, then, for a successful day to-day so far? He neared her, wooing her; and she assented, with a franker smile than she had worn through the day. The common burden on their hearts the simple discussion to come of the task of communicating dire actualities to their innocent Nesta was laid aside.
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