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The story appears to have emanated from Baron Greindl, who was the Belgian Minister at Berlin in 1911. He had been completely misinformed, no doubt in that capital, and there is no truth whatever in what he had been told about what he called the "perfidious and naïf revelations" of the British Military Attaché at Brussels.
"Yes, indeed, madam," replied the poor girl, weeping bitterly. "And you return his passion." "I believe so, madam." This naif confession made me smile. I continued "Then you are not quite sure of the fact?"
Quintus does his best; but we never observe in him that naif delight in describing weapons and works of art, and details of law and custom which are so conspicuous in Homer and in other early poets. He does give us Penthesilea's great sword, with a hilt of ivory and silver; but of what metal was the blade? When he names the military metal Quintus usually speaks of iron.
As we returned our driver took us about 4 kilometres outside Poggibonsi to San Lucchese, a church of the 12th or 13th century, greatly decayed, but still very beautiful and containing a few naif frescoes. He told us he had sung the Sanctus here at the festa on the preceding Sunday. It is in good preservation and deserves to be better, though perhaps not very much better, known than it is.
The actual dialect of Auvergne is peculiarly adapted to recitals of a legendary nature, owing to its vivacity of articulation, coupled with a kind of gloom in the quality of the sounds. Naïf and touching in popular song and Christmas carol, it is not divested of a certain grandeur for subjects deserving of a higher style. The works of M. Veyre comprise the various styles of shorter poems.
"Oh, my dear fellow! too horrid for words; he ought to be hanged!" "The man's dreadful," pursued the voice, shriller than ever; "nothing but a volcanic eruption would cure him." Shelton turned in alarm to look at the authors of these statements. They were two men of letters talking of a third. "'C'est un grand naif, vous savez," said the second speaker.
We now leave you." With these words the two sanguinary girls turned their horses, and briskly rode away. "What idiots they must have been to follow without fire-arms," Julie said. "Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would have been, enfant naif. You, child, may have considered this shedding of blood unnecessary, and therefore cruel." Oh, no; Julie did not think it so.
Flesh will after flesh, and you can believe it or not I was all for the women in my time." He chuckled, and had added some gross particulars before the younger man could check him. Yet the old fellow was so naif and direct that his speech left no evil taste. He talked as one might of farm stock. "But we're decent folk, we Josselins.
Who looks at the pictures of this true and charming naif, will find nothing to wonder at beyond this extreme simplicity, he had no prescribed attitude, no fixity of image that characterizes every touch of school. He was taught only by nature and consulted only her relationships and tendencies. There is never a mistaking of that.
These had been painted by the futurists or kindred artists, and made a really delightful effect, their bright colours and naif patterns seeming so natural to Moscow that I found myself wondering how it was that they had never been so painted before. They used to be a uniform dull yellow.
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