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Sacobie Bear was a great gossip for one of his race. In fact, he had a Micmac nickname which, translated, meant "the man who deafens his friends with much talk." Archer, however, was pleased with his ready chatter and unforced humour. But at last they both began to nod. The white man made up a bed on the floor for Sacobie with a couple of caribou skins and a heavy blanket.

I am glad indeed that you can give me simple friendship, unforced, uncompelled by any other motive than that which actuates you in regard to the others. But you know well your most casual glance would reveal it to you that I, in whom you have inspired some semblance of manhood, can never dream of any other woman. When you see this truth, as you often will, you must not punish me for it.

Pater has deliberately omitted this episode, which is indeed like a spot of blood-stained mud upon some perfect tissue of silver flowers on silver ground. It is a piece of cruellest realism, because quite quiet and unforced, in the midst of a kind of fairy-land idyl of almost childish love, the love of the beautiful son of the lord of Beaucaire for a beautiful Saracen slave girl.

Laura's irony was unforced; it was no more than a subtle discord naturally struck from the scene by a soul in contrast with it. They beheld the riding forth of troopers and a knot of officers hotly conversing together. At another point the duchess and the Lenkenstein ladies, Count Lenkenstein, Count Serabiglione, and Wilfrid paced up and down, waiting for music.

Mountstuart, after posturing herself to peruse Clara's features, "brains you have; one can see it by the nose and the mouth. I could vow you are the girl I thought you; you have your wits on tiptoe. How of the heart?" "None," Clara sighed. The sigh was partly voluntary, though unforced; as one may with ready sincerity act a character that is our own only through sympathy. Mrs.

It was said with unforced pathos, and Tarrant's better part made generous reply. 'If you find it too hard, dear, write to me, and tell me, and there shall be an end of it. 'Never. You think me wretchedly weak, but you shall see 'It's of your own free will you undertake it? 'Yes, of my own free will, she answered firmly. 'I won't come to you penniless. It isn't right I should do so.

If he should have known me and conversed with me, I could lot have refrained from making the journey to see him. How easy his converse ever was, how natural, how sensible and humorous by turns, but especially so unforced that for me it always had a charm by itself.

The fulness and variety of creation, the amplitude of the play and shifting of characters and motive and mood, are absolutely unforced, absolutely uninterfered with by the artificial exigencies of ethical or philosophic purpose. There is the purpose, full-grown, clear in outline, unmistakeable in significance. But the just proprieties of place and season are rigorously observed, because Mr.

First event and last were links in a closely-welded chain of circumstance. Looking back, he saw that one had followed the other as logically as night follows day. By a set of quite natural, unforced incidents Fate had achieved the amazing. Wade no longer had any doubt as to the identity of the person who had looked in upon him through the window yesterday.

For other temperaments the collective, deliberate, and really ceremonial silence of the Quakers the hush of the waiting mind, the unforced attitude of expectation, the abstraction from visual image works to the same end.