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It was such an argument as a stubborn lawyer might address to a presumably prejudiced court; it had not a pleasant word of gratitude for past favors, or of regret at the present necessity; it was as undiplomatic and ill considered as it certainly was unanswerable. But its impregnability could not offset its gross imprudence.
"Those detestable Balkans!" quoth one diplomat in an undiplomatic moment: and expressed well the official mind.
"I met Rabindranath soon after he had received the Nobel Prize for literature," I remarked after our vocalizing. "I was drawn to visit him because I admired his undiplomatic courage in disposing of his literary critics." I chuckled. Bhola curiously inquired the story. "The scholars severely flayed Tagore for introducing a new style into Bengali poetry," I began.
Not only is their sense of the bindingness of a bargain imperfect, but they are apt in business to behave in a puerile manner, to close an arrangement out of mere impatience, to be grossly undiplomatic, to be victimised by their vanity, to believe what they ought not to believe, to discredit what is patently true, to worry over negligible trifles, and generally to make a clumsy mess of their affairs.
A Christmas dinner in a foreign land, in the midst of the diplomatic corps, is the most undiplomatic thing in the world, for that is the one time when you can cease to be diplomatic and dare to criticise the government and make personal remarks to your heart's content. It was a beautiful dinner, and after it was over we were all invited to the children's entertainment at Mrs. Squiers's.
"With the rapid interchange and subtle apprehension characteristic of a passion which has no definite assurances as to its right to monopolize the regard of the object of jealous consideration, the prince was compelled to acknowledge, in these vague suggestions, an intangible but no less real succession of barriers opposed to his ardent advances, and with a scarcely concealed and certainly undiplomatic irritation he paused before Lal Lu and demanded: "'What is it, Lal Lu?
He called at Porto Ferrajo on the 24th, and to Bertrand's question, when he was to bring Campbell back, returned the undiplomatic answer that it was fixed for the 26th. The news seems to have decided Napoleon to escape on that day, when the "Partridge" would be absent at Leghorn.
"Don't be blatantly British, Roy! You can flatter yourself you know as well as I do!" "I know it's undiplomatic to contradict my elders!" countered Roy, lunging after pipe and pouch. "Especially convenient godfathers, with press connections?" Roy fronted him squarely, laughter lurking in his eyes. "Are you going to be convenient that's the rub!
He had a long standing invitation from Vane, whom he had met in Cyprus in the latter's days of undiplomatic diplomacy; and Vane was not aware that relations had only been thus renewed after the critic had read Merlin and Other Verses, by a new writer named John Treherne.
I decided that their considerateness entitled them to my full confidence, and I told them all begging them, if I was indiscreet or undiplomatic, to charge the offense to my lack of experience rather than to debit it against my cause. They passed it off with banter. It was understood that the President should not be told and that I should not tell him of my talk with Mr. Sandford.
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