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And because the accounts do not stand well in the ledger, our remedy is, not to take shame to ourselves, and repent in sackcloth and ashes, and amend our beggarly imbecilities and insincerities in that as in other departments of our business, but to fling the business overboard, and declare the business itself to be bad? We are a hopeful set of heirs to a big fortune!
The man's words were not false, nor his workings here below; no Inanity and Simulacrum; a fiery mass of Life cast up from the great bosom of Nature herself. To kindle the world; the world's Maker had ordered it so. Neither can the faults, imperfections, insincerities even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him.
All the old excuses and apologies she had been in the habit of making for Stephen's insincerities to his mother and to the world seemed to her now less than nothing; and she wondered how she ever could have held them as sufficient. In vain her heart pleaded. In vain tender memories thrilled her, by their vivid recalling of hours, of moments, of looks and words.
I slipped out into the fresh air, and fumigated myself, after the company I had kept, with a cigar. When trifles make themselves habits of yours or of mine, they become a part of your character or mine. We have an inveterately false and vicious system of society in England. If you want to trace one of the causes, look back to the little organized insincerities of English life."
It was not a great pageant, but was an impressive gathering. Society, in which the Southern element predominated, sneered at the tall ruler who had learned so few of its graces and insincerities, and took but little note of the thunder-clouds in the political atmosphere, the distant rumblings which heralded the approaching storm so soon to break with satanic force.
Even as she went back to the game anew, she was conscious that it would be a battle of meaningless words, of shallow insincerities yet she went back, nevertheless, before the disgust the thought awoke had passed entirely from among her sensations. "I believe I did," she confessed with a charming shrug.
But from whatever causes, this furious escape from popularity has involved Shaw in some perversities and refinements which are almost mere insincerities, and which make it necessary to disentangle the good he has done from the evil in this dazzling course.
Ashe had time to think over the latest phase of the negotiations with America, and to go over in his mind the sentences of a letter he had addressed to the Times in answer to one of great violence from Geoffrey Cliffe. His own letter had appeared that morning. Ashe was proud of it. He made bold to think that it exposed Cliffe's exaggerations and insincerities neatly, and perhaps decisively.
"And the underneath things, like finding out little insincerities, little meannesses even?" "The same plan works there if you're the 'in spite of' lover."
"There are some, I think, who believe in me who will think I am making a mistake." "But your future your career," she began, and paused abashed, as she saw the way he watched her. "I thought we were to have no insincerities no flatteries. Since I know what you really think, such civil implications can mean nothing." She bit her lips, pale as her cheeks were white. "Oh!" she cried, "how horrible!"
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