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Updated: April 30, 2025
One evening Rudolf was strolling along a crosstown street in the older central part of the city. Two streams of people filled the sidewalks the home-hurrying, and that restless contingent that abandons home for the specious welcome of the thousand-candle-power table d'hote. The young adventurer was of pleasing presence, and moved serenely and watchfully.
Yet think not your Charlotte was so lost as to voluntarily rush into a life of infamy; no, my dear mother, deceived by the specious appearance of my betrayer, and every suspicion lulled asleep by the most solemn promises of marriage, I thought not those promises would so easily be forgotten.
Offers of gun or horse merely tormented him, and only his sister could drag him out by specious pleas of need, to help in those Christmas works, where she had much better assistance in Anne and the curates the one for clubs and coals, the other for decorations. Mrs. Poynsett was Terry's best friend.
She hated Edward Percy for having deceived her, and equally she despised herself for having been thus deceived by this specious flatterer. "You little fool!" she scoffed at her image reflected back from her mirror. "You are a very idiot among idiots! I wonder where are all your high notions now. So," giving her hair an angry jerk, "you perched yourself aloft on a pinnacle, didn't you?
Our greatest grace; our most essential and indispensable grace; our most experimental and evidential grace; that grace, indeed, without which all our other graces are but specious shows and painted surfaces of graces; that grace into which our Lord here gathers up all our other graces; that greatest of graces cannot be imputed, imported, or introduced; it must be born, bred, exercised, reared up to its full maturity, and sent forth to fight and to conquer, and all within the walls of its own native town; in short, our self-denial must have its beginning and middle and end in our own heart.
His words were so specious. His pie was so delicately crusted with such a tempting exterior. What was the object of this magnanimous offer? He felt he must know more. "It sounds awfully well, but surely that is not all. What, in return, is demanded of me?" Lablache had carefully watched the effect of his words.
There seems to be a tendency inherent in it to become querulous, to make its pleading sound specious because of over-much speech. These are curious little things which have been not without influence in other regions of the world.
"What is what?" he retorted, with a specious brightness that did not avail. "What is on your mind?" "How do you know there's anything?" "Your kissing me so when you came in, for one thing." "Don't I always kiss you when I come in?" "Not now. I suppose it isn't necessary any more. 'Cela va sans baiser." "Yes, I guess it's so; we get along without the symbolism now."
As soon as he had taken possession of the palace of Constantinople, his first care was to remove the apprehensions of his kinsmen, by a solemn oath which he pledged for their security. His next employment was to find some specious pretence which might release his conscience from the obligation of an imprudent promise.
If any of the noblesse, men or women, calling upon Nais, found Lucien in the room, they met him with the overwhelming graciousness that well-bred people use towards their inferiors. Lucien thought them very kind for a time, and later found out the real reason for their specious amiability.
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