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"All the same, I'm rather sorry he wasn't able to lay his hands on the thief." "That's your point of view, of course," Mrs. Rheinholdt remarked. "I can think of nothing but having my diamonds back. I feel I ought to go and thank the Professor for recommending Mr. Quest." The Inspector made no reply. Mrs. Rheinholdt was suddenly aware that she was becoming a little tactless.
Such a thing takes them out of their daily round, and beggars their experience, and makes them excited and tactless. There's no precedent for them, and you know how most people depend on precedent and how they're bowled over before anything new." "I will go to Mary, I think. Has the undertaker been?" "Yes, uncle." "I want him to be buried with us here. I should not suppose his father will object."
"It's so tactless to continually chivy people about their health, but I own that I can scarcely resist saying to the child every time I see her, 'Are you any better today? or, 'Have you any cough? or, 'How is your appetite? I have not wanted to trouble you about her but the truth is we all find ourselves talking her over. The point of her chin is growing actually sharp. What is Mrs.
And so to Bildad and his mate I made a helpful talk, with vital truths that elevate and break disasters' shock; I pointed out that stricken men should not yield to the worst, but from the wreckage rise again like flame from torch reversed. Then Johnson interrupted me as I was growing hoarse. A rude, offensive person he, a tactless man and coarse. He said to Bildad, "Well, old pard!
She appreciated the frankness which had prompted this warning, and she saw that she had made a tactless blunder, but she looked at him steadily. "I forgot," she said; "forgive me. I heard of what happened in India but I knew that there must have been some mistake." She hesitated for a moment. "I think so now." Blake made a sudden movement, and then leaned back against the railing.
In addition to this, owing to the national feeling which had been aroused in so unfortunate a way, the Chinese felt a revulsion against non-Chinese, such as the Salars, who were of Turkish race. Here there were always possibilities of friction, which might have been removed with a little consideration but which swelled to importance through the tactless behaviour of Chinese officials.
Father!" cried Cis, looking from one to the other, with eyes and mouth wide open. "Soh!" cried the sailor, "what have I done? I beg your pardon, sir, if I have overhauled what should have been let alone. But," continued the honest, but tactless man, "who could have thought of the like of that, and that the pretty maid never knew it? Ay, ay, dear heart.
It WAS tactless of her, even Polly felt that; though she could sympathise with the worry that prompted the words. As for Mahony, had he had the money to do it, he would have flung the sum named straight at her head. "She must never come again," said Polly to herself, as she bent over the hair-chain she was making as a gift for John.
"Mother," said Augustine, "forgive me. That was impertinent of me. It's no affair of mine." She thought so, too, apparently, for she found no words in which to tell him that it was his affair. Her hands clasped tightly in her lap, her eyes downcast, she seemed shrunken together, overcome by his tactless intrusion. "Forgive me," Augustine repeated.
"Well, I'll tell you," retorted Jim, with an indescribable twinkle: "you just meet me on the ballast, and we'll make it a barquentine." Nares laughed a little; tactless Pinkerton had once more gained a victory in tact. "Then there's another point," resumed the captain, tacitly relinquishing the last. "How about the owners?"
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