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Updated: May 14, 2025
And we share a common dislike for the asperity shown by the untactful, inefficient, bulldozing old Jack. Here is a good story that "Buck" Carlson used to tell in his inimitable way.
The bodice, opened at the neck, exposed the slender white throat, around which the summer's sun had tanned a ruddy ring. Her hair had been parted in the center and twined in adorable curls about the young head. The transformation drew an untactful ejaculation from Horace, and he stared intently at the sensitive face. Flea's gray eyes, after the first hasty glance at him, sought Flukey.
I suppose Mrs. Congdon has told you of us?" "Where do you live?" "We live in Chester, but Mr. Fordyce has an office in Philadelphia. We have been engaged a long time, but I couldn't think of marrying while I was so ill. I'm afraid I stayed so long that not even this climate can help me." This was indeed Bertha's conviction, and her untactful silence said as much.
Patricia felt a bit uncomfortable at this untactful speech, but Constance merely laughed and nodded back over her shoulder at the indifferent Rosamond. "That's the difference between us, Lady Rosamond," she smiled. "You are so sure of getting what you want, while I am always trying to make up my mind what it is I want.
Less obvious to the public, but none the less untactful, was the manner in which the German Ambassador tried to use his social connection in Rome, his family relationships in the aristocracy of Italy, to influence the King and his ministers. He might have taken warning from the royal speech attributed to the Queen Mother in reply to the Kaiser: "The House of Savoy rules one at a time."
But if we look at the political world, we find indeed noble exceptions such as that of Charles Sumner among those who had been honestly perplexed by Lincoln's attitude on slavery; we have to allow for the feelings of some good State Governor who had come to him with a tiresome but serious proposition and been adroitly parried with an untactful and coarse apologue; yet it remains to be said that a thick veil, woven of self-conceit and half-education, blinded most politicians to any rare quality in Lincoln, and blinded them to what was due in decency to any man discharging his task.
He even made an effort to keep on good terms with the younger set that was for an emergency; for who can tell? the younger sometimes go ahead of the old, and, being young, they might do one an injury or a good service when the opportunity offered. Never to commit an untactful action in that consisted the chief precept of Doubelov's life.
The Major stared hard at George from under his white eyebrows. "You didn't mean 'him, you say, George? I suppose if we had a clergyman as a guest here you'd expect him not to be offended, and to understand that your remarks were neither personal nor untactful, if you said the church was a nuisance and ought never to have been invented. By Jove, but you're a puzzle!"
"We're a house party," he explained firmly. "We've come over here for some clothes. We shall be obliged to start back in about an hour because we have to take you with us, and we don't want to keep you out too late." "Hey?" asked the judge. "Yes," said Sylvia. "Edna asked us to bring either you or Thinkright back with us." "Now that's very untactful of you, Miss Sylvia," objected John.
Yet it was glaringly apparent to him that Umu, their captain, was inordinately proud of his regiment; and the new Inca was by no means untactful.
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