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What we liked in him, I think, was his simple acceptance of a position that required neither explanation nor apology a social condition that banished a sense of his own personality, and left him perfectly free to be absolutely truthful. Though an eldest son and next in succession to an earldom, he was still young.
From early youth she had followed the impulses of her own nature without heeding the opinion of mortals, as the teachings of the Stoics directed, and she had been allowed to do so because this nature was pure, truthful, alive to the beautiful, and, moreover, free from those unbridled, volcanic impulses to which the Queen alluded.
There is no attempt at anything subtile or even delicate in the treatment, speaking from the point of view of a result achieved by paint on canvas, no texture, no difference of handling, no imitation; all is paint, admirably put on, for the effect across the room. I think we must set Velasquez quite by himself as a truthful and surely most gifted portrait-master.
One topic, however, had not been discussed, a fact which my guarded questions made certain. She, like myself, had said nothing concerning the day in the woods. "I told her of your consenting to help Mr. Taylor in his dilemma," said Mother. "Did you?" said I. "It was kind of you to put it in that way." "That was the truthful way of putting it, wasn't it? She seemed very much interested." "Indeed.
Lutz's tone was threatening. "I'm naturally truthful; I aims to stick strictly to facts if I does talk." "Facts don't cut any ice in a libel suit," replied the undertaker significantly. Libel suit! That sounded like the law and the grave-digger had a poor man's fear of the law. There was less assurance in his voice when he asserted "No man don't own me."
"But did you not foresee it?" asked Madame Bozier persistently, "Did you not realize that men always want what they cannot have and that the very fact of your leaving Paris increased his ardour and sent him on here in pursuit?" Sylvie Hermenstein was of a very truthful nature, and she had not attempted to deny this suggestion.
"We seem," remarked Vane, taking advantage of a temporary lull in the flood, "to have arrived at rather a personal discussion." "Of course we have," she took him up. "Isn't it I I I everywhere? Only a lot of people aren't sufficiently truthful to admit it. It's Number One first all the way through, right from the people up at the top down to the poor brutes in the slums.
She herself, in writing her books, was solicitous on this point. One set of words was the truthful mirror of her thoughts; no others, however apparently identical in meaning, would do. She had that strong practical regard for the simple holy truth of expression, which Mr. Trench has enforced, as a duty too often neglected.
The stranger listened, and observed her with an attentive gaze, but no approval escaped his lips, no emotion changed the expression of his cold and half-disdainful aspect. Isabel, who was in the character of a jealous and abandoned mistress, never felt so acutely the part she played. Her tears were truthful; her passion that of nature: it was almost too terrible to behold.
It is a poor argument used against etiquette that it is not truthful, and that uncouth manners are more frank and sincere than polished and refined ones. Is truth then a hedgehog, always 3 bristling and offensive. Cannot truth be spoken in courteous accents from a kind, gentle impulse, as well as blurted out rudely and giving pain and mortification?
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