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That was more rapid, too, than she was used to, and it was full of allusions, understood when they were half-said by the others, which to her were all darkness. She tried to follow them with a wistful sort of smile, a kind of painful homage to the Contessa's soft laugh and the ready response of Sir Tom.
"Oh! you know what I mean. You made me say it." "Yes, after you had half-said it already. Don't do it again." And there followed more of such foolish talk, uninteresting to my readers. "Where were you at school?" asked Alec, after a pause. "Your uncle told me you were at school." "Near London," she answered. "Ah! that accounts for your beautiful speech." "There again.
Still, I don't think Miss Pigchalke will forget in a hurry what I said to her. I warned her that some of the things she said, or half-said, were libellous, and that it might end very badly for her if she said them again. She took the line that I, being a doctor, was privileged but I assured her that I was nothing of the kind!
"You by which I mean hundreds of men like you, much younger, of course you are of my world, you understand the half-said thing, your conduct during the war has been irreproachable, you've got a heart beneath a cynical exterior, you've got brains, you're as clean as a new pin, you're an agreeable companion, you can turn a compliment in a way that even a savage like me can appreciate, and yet "
Much, therefore, must be left unsaid, or half-said; suggestion and insinuation must be trusted to go far enough, in order that, while the knowing understand, the ignorant may be secure in the bliss of their ignorance and be not prematurely informed. They, for whom such language is insufficient, know where to go for fuller information.
This was what he learned ... much of it of course, half-said ... much he filled in for himself. In her early years, Clara had undoubtedly been a disagreeable child; and even as a girl, she had not been much gentler; self-willed, hot-tempered, sensitive, she had never got on with her father, whom she despised for his drunkenness and incapacity. He felt this and never forgave her for it.
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