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Thence "this plain unvarnished tale," which is as clear as mud in a ditch, although you needn't believe it if you don't like there is no compulsion required to make hungry people eat roast mutton!
He had shed away all his French phrases. He had become a plain, unvarnished Preston man. Failure, if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, and even though it be a squalid failure, has always a certain dignity. I avoided Soames because he made me feel rather vulgar. John Lane had published, by this time, two little books of mine, and they had had a pleasant little success of esteem.
The dragoman had naturally told him many falsehoods concerning Coleman, incidentally referring to himself more as a philanthropic guardian and, valuable friend of the correspondent than as, a plain, unvarnished. dragoman with an exceedingly good eye for the financial possibilities of his position.
And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me not a single drop, sir! And I swear to it! But my dog was a-swimming behind the wagon all the way!" For a week or two I stayed mostly within doors, for I seemed to meet this person everywhere, and he had become utterly hateful to me.
As Mac related the unvarnished tale of the banked fire in the canyon, the hold-up, and the double murder, a slight sound caused me to turn my head, and I saw in a doorway that led to another room the erect figure of Major Lessard listening intently, a black frown on his eagle face.
Kaunitz looked up, and answered with firmness, "Sire, this is the hour of unreserve, and I will speak the unvarnished truth. I have been expecting the last greeting of my empress, and had I not received her command to serve your majesty, I should have known that Austria had need of me no more, and ere long I would have followed my peerless mistress to the grave."
The mission of the Negro press is a noble one, for "Right is of no sex, and Wrong of no color," and God, the Father of us all, with these as its standard, to be effectual it must give a "plain, unvarnished tale, nor set down aught in malice."
She raised her wet eyes yearningly to his; but she still spoke the simple truth, unvarnished, the great agony that was lying at her heart. "How shall I live on, with you away? It will be more lonely than I can bear." "Don't, child!" he said in a wailing tone of entreaty. "The temptation from my own heart is all too present to me. Don't you tempt me.
It is only in the sphere of sex that there remains an unfounded fear of presenting without the gratuitous introduction of non-essential taboos and prejudice, unbiased and unvarnished facts. As an instrument of education, the doctrine of Birth Control approaches the whole problem in another manner.
Why did you not wait?" "I was afraid you would refuse your permission, and I wanted so very much to go to Mrs. Mason's." Above all other virtues he reverenced and admired stern unvarnished truth, and this strong element of her reticent nature had powerfully attracted him. "Little girl, am I such a stony-hearted ogre?"
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