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Look at poor Hartman, ejecting his honest backwoods thought without asking whether it was a wise and decent offering to his small but highly select audience; and see what trouble he has brought on himself and all of us thereby. This outspokenness is often mere self-indulgence.
I couldn't quite explain it to myself, but while he had an air of extreme straightforwardness, there was also an indefinable effect of reserve. I couldn't help feeling that if this man had anything to conceal, he would be quite capable of doing so under a mask of great outspokenness.
Baillie was certainly present, with the other Scottish Commissioners; and he was delighted with Palmer's outspokenness. What did this AEolus, but he Took out his black trumpe of brass, That fouler than the Devil was, And gan this trumpe for to blow As all the world should overthrow.
"And have you nothing nice to say to me, Mr. Brett?" pouted Helen. "So much that I must remain dumb. I have a vivid recollection of Mr. Hume's tragic air when he asked me to give you 'his kind regards." "The dear boy! You have not yet told us why you left him in London." In view of Mrs. Capella's outspokenness concerning her cousin, this was a poser.
"You would never have patience to do work like that," interrupted Dan cruelly, "nor the money either; and I don't suppose you will ever go out of Gorlay." "You wait," said Betty, very much annoyed by his humiliating outspokenness. "You wait" with a toss of her head "until I am grown up, then I shall marry some one, and I shall travel, and "
Conscious superiority is the note of the prig; and we have the right to dread it. But the Gospel again is full of precepts in favour of frankness, outspokenness, letting light shine out, speaking sincerely; only it must not be done provokingly, condescendingly, solemnly.
Hilbery mused, "that there was a kind of sincerity in those days between men and women which, with all your outspokenness, you haven't got." Katharine again tried to interrupt. But Mrs. Hilbery had been gathering impetus from her recollections, and was now in high spirits. "They must have been good friends at heart," she resumed, "because she used to sing his songs. Ah, how did it go?" and Mrs.
He was little then, not above five feet six in height, and under one hundred and thirty pounds in weight. By degrees they all knew him. His unusual ways, his loyalty to his hobbies, which he treated not as mere whims but as being worthy of serious application, his versatility, his outspokenness, his almost unbroken good-nature, attracted most of the persons with whom he came in contact.
It was a revelation, having its origin in an honesty which impelled a pure outspokenness to himself. Reserve, of course, there had been elsewhere, for did not she hold a secret with him? Had she not hidden things, equivocated else where? Yet it had been at his wish, to protect the name of a dead man, for the repose of whose soul masses were now said, with expensive candles burning.
It was determined that this Diary should eventually see the light, and circumstances into which I need not now enter have rendered its appearance advisable at the present date. The interest of the document is its candour and outspokenness.
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