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With all this, he was a perfect, unoffending gentleman in word and act. Take his clay pipe from him, and he was fit for any society but that of fools. Quiet as he was, there burned a deep, permanent excitement in his dark blue eyes; and when this grave man smiled, it was like sunshine in a shady place. Mrs. But she was on the surface, what there was of her, out-spoken and loud-spoken.
The general shrugged his shoulders, declared the will good enough to render the desired relief, but that the means were wanting. To be out-spoken, he hinted to Mr. Tickler that, in the event of joining his service, it must be upon the condition that he depend on the fortunes of war for his reward.
They all know dad hasn't had a theatrical engagement for ever so long. And they know we haven't any what you might call resources or we wouldn't live here. Of course they know we're poor that's no news!" "I know, my dear. But you are so so out-spoken." "I'm glad of it. Oh, Ruth, when will you ever give up trying to pretend we are what we are not?
And she might certainly have had the peer, and the acres of garden, and the big house, and the senatorial honours; whereas the tallow-chandler's journeyman had never been so out-spoken.
"Thank you," said Blake, understanding him readily. "I am somewhat like you." The solemnity of the night and of the fate-laden hours had opened for a minute the minds of two men as reserved and reticent as are most well-bred Americans, who as a rule lack the strange out-spoken frankness of our English kin. "Oh! here is my summons," said Blake. "Good luck to you, Penhallow.
This strange conversation, which roused our astonishment to an incredible point, and which was sustained with so much out-spoken freedom by M. le Duc, demands a word or two of explanation. M. le Duc was one of those who, without spending a farthing, had drawn millions from Law's notes and shares.
We had already set up or subsidized or otherwise aided a certain number of magazines and periodicals that seemed to us independent-spirited, out-spoken and well handled, but we had still to devise our present scheme of financing groups of men to create magazines and newspapers, which became their own separate but inalienable property after so many years of success.
This strange conversation, which roused our astonishment to an incredible point, and which was sustained with so much out-spoken freedom by M. le Duc, demands a word or two of explanation. M. le Duc was one of those who, without spending a farthing, had drawn millions from Law's notes and shares.
And what a straightforward, out-spoken lassie it was then! I don't believe it; it's only one of old Sheepshanks' stories, half invention and half deafness. The next day Lady Harriet rode over to Hollingford, and for the settling of her curiosity she called on the Miss Brownings, and introduced the subject.
It was not the first time that she had been called a simpleton, or some kindred name, by the out-spoken Miss Fanny; for this young lady prided herself on not being afraid to speak plainly, and tell people just what she thought of them. As we before said, Mary's cheek flushed a little; but she instantly thought to herself, "It is Fanny, and I won't mind it."
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