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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I was coming to see you," he said, steadfastly confronting Claude. "Why have you not called upon me, young man, in accordance with the invitation I gave you?" Claude stared. The Syndic's matter-of-factness and the ease with which he ignored what had just passed staggered him.
His eyes caught the suggestive outlines of the blanket on the floor, and, with a start, he remembered what was under it. They had no sensibilities, these Westerners they lacked fineness; certainly no one would suspect from the matter-of-factness of their manner that they were rooming with a corpse. For himself, he doubted if he could even eat. "Oh, you awake?" Uncle Bill glanced at him casually.
There is, I should say, not seldom a matter-of-factness in certain poems.
This had been the relation between them, on the evening of the concert for the Fresh Air Fund, a relation whose cordial matter-of-factness was in no way disturbed by the potent spell of Thayer's voice. Beatrix had spent much of her life in the open air; she was too healthy to be given to self-analysis.
We know not when we met with a book which we have perused with more pleasure, or from which we have derived more profit. The authoress is evidently possessed of a vigorous understanding, with just so much of imagination as to chasten down the matter-of-factness of her style, which is eminently beautiful.
The first English author to establish firmly this utilitarian relation between the setting and the action was Daniel Defoe. Defoe was by profession a journalist; and the most characteristic quality of his mind was an habitual matter-of-factness.
They are right in ascribing to the average Japanese a large amount of unimaginative matter-of-factness, but they are equally wrong in unqualified dogmatic generalizations. They base their inductions on insufficient facts, a habit to which foreigners are peculiarly liable, through ignorance of the language and also of the inner thoughts and life of the people.
For, by woman's instinct rather than by any reasoning process, she was conscious of a disconcerting change. Amongst the people she knew, young men were not now attracted by girls as they had been in her young days. There was a kind of cool and friendly matter-of-factness in the way they treated them, a sort of almost scientific playfulness. And Cecilia felt uneasy as to how far this was to go.
Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun. He looked back at her with meditative scrutiny, one eyebrow raised a little above the other.
His salutation struck me as impertinent, so I returned it in the curtest of nods. "Are you in trouble?" I asked. "None whatever," he airily replied, still eying me. "But my car seems to be, doesn't it?" "What's wrong?" I demanded, determined that he shouldn't elbow me out of my matter-of-factness. He turned to his automobile and inspected it with an indifferent eye.
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