Talk about the weather and other well-bred topics is apt to seem a hollow device, and behavior can hardly become easy unless it frankly recognizes a mutual fascination—which of course need not mean anything deep or serious.
"No, frankly, I don't think them a great object in life," said Dorothea.
The banker was evidently a ruler, but there was an opposition party, and even among his supporters there were some who allowed it to be seen that their support was a compromise, and who frankly stated their impression that the general scheme of things, and especially the casualties of trade, required you to hold a candle to the devil.
Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects; likely to seek martyrdom, to make retractations, and then to incur martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it.
She says it is frankly obscene.
I dare say he would have paid more, but frankly I was so taken aback that I lost my head; I accepted the offer before I was able to collect myself.
"You don't mind my talking to you frankly?
" "By no means," said the Sea Rat frankly.
He frankly preferred the paddock, and took a deal of catching.
Arbuthnot had that fatal flavour of motherliness about her, of wanting to pet one, to make one very comfortable, coaxing one to eat—coaxing her, who was already so frankly, so even excessively, eating—that seemed to have dogged Scrap's steps through life.
Would you not, frankly, be disappointed if that prayer were granted?
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend—as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
She laughed a great deal, was cheerful and good-tempered, and enjoyed the pleasant things of life frankly.
"I've made up my mind to stay simply for the sake of getting better acquainted with that Anne-girl," she said frankly.
"Why, I guess so," she said frankly.
Tell him frankly, just as you have told me, and I'll warrant that he will laugh at your story, and think all the more of you for it.
In declining the honour you have done me in asking me to be your wife, I feel that I ought to speak frankly.
Oh, I say, Major Talbot," he exclaimed frankly, "don't you be offended.
The man who told me these things was for several years an outlaw in the Southwest and a follower of the pursuit he so frankly describes.
I like Roaring Abel," said Valancy frankly.