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Angé swore with a guileless eloquence quite outside the sphere of wickedness. The matter was in them. It must, of course, come out. So Billy swore now with only an occasional hitch where his indignation muddled pronunciation. "Billy's got a fine flow of language," Birkdale put in amusedly. "For a youngster, I don't think I ever heard it equalled."
Peter Baron had his guileless side, but he felt, as he worried with a stick that betrayed him the granite parapets of the Thames, that he was not such a fool as not to know how Mr. Locket would "work" the mystery of his marvellous find. Nothing could help it on better with the public than the impenetrability of the secret attached to it. If Mr.
This lady resided with her son and daughter near what was then the pretty village of La Pontoise. Her children were making their début in the informal society of the country-side, and their grace, beauty and guileless charms were heralded to the general before they were permitted to take part in the festivities incident to his return.
I could not help thinking, in spite of all that he must be so expert, that, if he really were a smuggler, he had all the poise and skill at evasion that would entitle him to be called a past master of the art. "You see that woman over there? "he whispered. "She says she is just coming home after studying music in Paris." We looked. It was the guileless ingenue, Mademoiselle Gabrielle.
She had expected to find a simple, guileless woman, who, upon her first visit, would throw her arms round her visitor's neck and yield herself entirely to her influence. Far, however, from being dismayed, Diana was rather pleased at this unexpected difficulty, and so fully exerted all her powers of fascination, that when she took her leave, she believed that she had made a little progress.
The taste thus formed continued a prevailing one for sixty years. It is surprising to find how speedily he became a leading and recognized authority. Although as guileless as a child and the easy victim of numerous thefts throughout his life, he was scarcely ever deceived in the value of a coin, token, or medal. Once, at Stockholm, in 1871, he visited a museum where rare coins were exhibited.
To whom have the Prince and Charlotte then been too charming?" "To each other, in the first place obviously. And then both of them together to Maggie." "To Maggie?" he wonderingly echoed. "To Maggie." She was now crystalline. "By having accepted, from the first, so guilelessly yes, so guilelessly, themselves her guileless idea of still having her father, of keeping him fast, in her life."
Tarbox offered his hand to say good-by. The surveyor playfully held it. "I mean no disparagement to your present calling," he said, "but the next time we meet I hope you'll be a contractor." "Ah!" responded Tarbox, "it's not my nature. I cannot contract; I must always expand. And yet I thank you. "'Pure thoughts are angel visitors. Be such The frequent inmates of thy guileless breast.
Lord Cairnforth smiled to himself once more, and let the conversation end; afterward long afterward, he recalled it, and thought with a strange comfort that then, at least, there was nothing to conceal; nothing but sincerity in the sweet, honest face not pretty, but so perfectly candid and true with the sun shining on the lint-white hair, and the bright blue eyes meeting his, guileless as a child's.
And there was another person in that house, to whom the tragical events of the night brought deep disquietude; but it was a disquietude of quite a different character from that which was experienced by the troubled wretches we have named: that person was the Tory's Daughter the pure, guileless, and nobleminded Sabrey Haviland.
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