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"I'll thank you to let me alone, Tom Hardy," she said, with a snap; and the men laughed harder. Abby was attractive to men in spite of her smallness and leanness and incisiveness of manner. She was called mighty smart and dry, which was the shop synonym for witty, and her favors, possibly because she never granted them, were accounted valuable.
"Aunt Amy, you must never say that again." He spoke with the crisp incisiveness of a master, but for once his subject did not immediately respond. With a sulky look she tried to wrench herself free. "Why?" she questioned. But Callandar knew his business too well to argue. "You must never say it again," he repeated. "You must never say it again!" The poor, weak lips began to quiver.
Shaw's chief object is to place before his audience facts, reasons, and logical conclusions. He will not tolerate romantic emotions or sentimentalism, which he ridicules with a reckless audacity, a literal incisiveness, and a satiric wit that none of his contemporaries can excel.
Three passages from the Guildhall speech afford typical illustrations of the incisiveness of his English and of its effect on his audience. Fortunately you have now in the Governor of East Africa, Sir Percy Girouard, a man admirably fitted to deal wisely and firmly with the many problems before him. He is on the ground and knows the needs of the country and is zealously devoted to its interests.
How's it that you're ready to part two thou' for 'em?" There was a moment's silence as the two men eyed each other. It seemed as if each were endeavoring to fathom the other's thoughts. Then the money-lender spoke, and his voice conveyed a concentration of hate that bit upon the air with an incisiveness which startled his companion. "Because I intend to crush him as I would a rattlesnake.
I speak boldly yes! because I do not fear you! because I have no favours to gain from you, because to me, Lotys, you, the King are nothing!" Her voice, perfectly tranquil, even, and coldly sweet, had not a single vibration of uncertainty or hesitation in it and her words seemed to cut through the stillness of the room with clean incisiveness like the sweep of a sword-blade.
She was always bringing him something never was anyone so sweet in those ways. In that grey, low-cut frock, her white, still prettiness and pale-gold hair, so little touched by Time, only just fell short of real beauty for lack of a spice of depth and of incisiveness, just as her spirit lacked he knew not what of poignancy. He would not for the world have let her know that he ever felt that lack.
Then, instead of raising his voice, he spoke with a sharp, stuttering incisiveness: "So that's her game, eh? I suppose she thinks she'll breed her way into the family. Well, she won't. It won't work.
Gannius, reeking of the Teutonic Professor, as a library volume of its leather. With him is his fairhaired artless daughter Delphica. An interesting couple for the beguilement of a voyage: she so beautifully moderates his irascible incisiveness! Yet there is a strange tone that they have.
Probably this work lost something in incisiveness and brilliancy by being postponed till the writer's old age. But whatever this loss, it is impossible for any biography to be less pretentious in style, or less ambitious in proclamation.
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