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I have shrunk instinctively alike from those to whom you have urged me to pay court, and from the motives of interest and gain which have rendered them in your eyes visible objects for my suit. If there never has been thus much plain-speaking between us before, sir, the fault has not been mine, indeed.
She preserved her steadfast air, when they had escaped, to conceal her shame. Seeing thus much, he took it to mean that it was a time for plain-speaking. To what end, he did not ask. "You have not to be told that I desire your happiness above all earthly things," he said: and the lady shrank back, and made an effort to recover her footing.
"Don't invent grievances, Isobel, for I see you have a real stumbling-block, when we can come to it. You are not at the confirmation-class, and I am not easily horrified." "Well, there are two difficulties I explain very stupidly," said I with some sadness. "We'll take them one at a time," replied Aunt Isobel with an exasperating blandness, which fortunately stimulated me to plain-speaking.
I I have read in books of beauty capable of taking away a man's breath. You must excuse me I am a plain-spoken man. I never met it until this evening." Etta excused him readily enough. She could forgive plenty of plain-speaking of this description. Had she not been inordinately vain, this woman, like many, would have been extraordinarily clever. She laughed, with little sidelong glances.
As an ordinary soldierman, trained in the elementary virtues of plain-speaking and direct dealing, love of country and the sacredness of duty, I have had no use for the metaphysician. I haven't the remotest notion what his jargon means. Of course, please regard this as a criticism not of the metaphysicians and the philosophers, but of myself.
She even shocked Maggie and Bessie now and then, truthful and sincere as they were, by her extreme and uncompromising plain-speaking; and perhaps it was as well that she was a child of so few words, or she would often have given offence.
Dreiser's plain-speaking on a variety of topics euphemized by earlier American realists has about it some look of conscious intention, and is undoubtedly sustained by his literary principles, yet his candor essentially inheres in his nature: he thinks in blunt terms before he speaks in them.
Lady Verner's illness had commenced near the latter end of April, and it was growing towards the end of June before she began to get better, or would give Lionel leave to depart. Jan, plain-speaking, truth-telling Jan, had at length quietly told his mother that there was nothing the matter with her but "vexing and temper."
"My dear Stuart," remonstrated the colonel, "really, you are taking a very warped view of " "I am an ass," repeated the sick man, interrupting his friend; "more than that, you are an ass too, colonel." The colonel was a very pompous and stately man. He had not been honoured with his true title since he left school, and was therefore a good deal taken aback by the plain-speaking of his friend.
Frankness and plain-speaking being, as you doubtless know, the distinguishing mark of the Caracunan statesman." The sarcasm was not lost upon Mr. Brewster, but it failed to shake his skepticism. "There are some business matters that require that I should go to the office of the Ferro carril del Norte this afternoon," he said. "I beg that you do nothing of the sort," cried Sherwen sharply.
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