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Updated: May 29, 2025
There was indeed in the personality of that little old lady the tremendous force of accumulated decision the inherited assurance of one whose prestige had never been questioned; who, from long immunity, and a certain clear-cut matter-of-factness, bred by the habit of command, had indeed lost the power of perceiving that her prestige ever could be questioned.
John was so good-looking, too, and had the most attractive deep voice, but heavens! the matter-of-factness of everything about him! How long would it all go on? John came in presently with The Times under his arm. He was immaculately dressed in a blue serge suit.
For, as I have remarked, unnatural as it seems at first sight, if we think for a moment, the very simplicity and calm, and, I was going to say, the matter-of-factness, of such a greeting, as the first that escaped from lips that had passed through death and yet were red and vocal, is congruous with the deepest truths of His nature.
But looking not to the present hour, and this single country, but to the world at large and coming times, no question can be more practical. What grows upon the world is a certain matter-of-factness. The test of each century, more than of the century before, is the test of results.
Its rise we have seen was due to that order, and the setting aside of these characteristics as ideals at least, and thus the bringing into prominence of more normal and healthy ideals, is due to the coming in of a new order. Japanese prosaic matter-of-factness may similarly be shown to have intimate relations to the nature of the social order.
"And I suppose," he said dubiously, "it's out of the question getting them any other way than ready-made; that is, and cheaper too." The only sign of excitement there was in the girl's voice when she answered, was a sort of exaggerated matter-of-factness. Oh, yes, there was besides a wire edge on it, so that the words came to him through the cold air with a kind of ringing distinctness.
And she demanded, quite as if that were the very business referred to, whether the plumber had come to stop the drip in the white-room bathroom. The butler's reply took a not unfamiliar direction. The plumber, and his helper, had come and 'xperimented round: but they had not yet stopped the drip.... Mrs. Heth ate heartily, with a desperate matter-of-factness. It was half-past nine o'clock.
Maybe Axel would make you a little house." "Oh, her can live in the barn, her can," Thor drawled indifferently. Thea laughed and squeezed his hand. She always liked his sturdy matter-of-factness. Boys ought to be like that, she thought. When they reached the depot, Mr. Kronborg paced the platform somewhat ceremoniously with his daughter.
Her cheerful matter-of-factness her competent sanity, restored his belief in a world that had seemed only chaos and death. How much, he wondered later, had Mrs. Haverford suspected? He had not been in any condition to act a part. But whatever she suspected he knew was locked in her kindly breast. Audrey moved slightly, and he went over to her. When he glanced up again Mrs. Haverford had gone out.
"What's to be done, now?" asked Milo, turning instinctively to Gavin for orders. The question brought the dazedly joyous man back to his senses. With exaggerated matter-of-factness, he made reply: "Why, the most sensible thing we can all do just now is to eat dinner. A square meal works wonders in bracing people up.
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