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But the ingenuous frankness of this young being, the unaffectedness which waited upon her every movement, had wrought such demolition to my theories that I was slow in recovering my equipoise of thought. At length I strolled through a mazy vista to oblivion, surrounded by a dancing throng of seraphs.
She was delighted with his ready appreciation and feeling of what was passing around him, his quick enjoyment of a joke, the simplicity and unaffectedness of his emotion at whatever incidents excited his interest, the genial acknowledgment of sympathy, causing him to look round and exchange glances with those near him, who were not his individual friends, but barristers and other casual persons.
A purer soul, a more blameless spirit, than Thomas Russell, never sunk on the battle-field of freedom. Fixed in principles, and resolute in danger, he was nevertheless gentle, courteous, unobstrusive, and humane; with all the modesty and unaffectedness of childhood, he united the zeal of a martyr and the courage of a hero.
"And they hurt so dreadfully that I slipped them off and now nothing'll get them back on. I guess I've got to stay here the rest of my life." There was something so refreshing in Jerry's frankness and unaffectedness that Dana King sat down eagerly beside her. "Let me sit here and talk, then. Say, what on earth was the matter with you the night of the debate? Was it your shoes then?
Sheridan, in which the feminine character of her mind very interestingly displays itself. Their chief charm is unaffectedness, and the total absence of that literary style, which in the present day infects even the most familiar correspondence.
She could not know the beauty of inward peace, and in spite of her Protestant upbringing she had retained all the unaffectedness and sincerity of the natural human being, all the obstinate love of freedom, unmoved in the least by what men call discipline, ethics, Christianity, convention.
Not to seem to spy upon her, Weatheral made his way back though the coatroom without disclosing himself. From the door of it he timed his return so as to meet her face to face as she came up with Mrs. Goodward and was rewarded for it by the gayety of her greeting and the unaffectedness of her attack of the fresh relay of toasted muffins and tea.
Alas! the simplicity and unaffectedness of the Club were again invaded. Suddenly there was a crash, the breaking of glass, and an exclamation.
And most folk-tales have a movement, a sweep, and an unaffectedness which make them splendid foundations for taste in style. For this, and for poetic presentation of truths in easily assimilated form, and because it gives joyous stimulus to the imagination, and is necessary to full appreciation of adult literature, we may freely use the wonder tale.
The following is particularly valuable from an educational standpoint, because of the absolute unaffectedness of the child's narrative of his own training. So much that was of interest to me was continually occurring while I was a child that it all seems like a kind of haze to me.
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