" "A little—since Aunt Nancy lets me wear my bang," said Emily frankly.
" "I'm running away," said Emily frankly.
At half-past eight, and again at nine, Anna said that she must go home; but the Suttons, now frankly absorbed in the topic of the mayoralty, their secret preoccupation, would not spoil the confidential talk which had ensued by letting the lovers depart.
He frankly enjoyed Anna's attention to him, and took pride in her society.
" "Well," said Owl, "the Spotted or Herbaceous Backson is just a——" "At least," he said, "it's really more of a——" "Of course," he said, "it depends on the——" "Well," said Owl, "the fact is," he said, "I don't know what they're like," said Owl frankly.
I had time to bathe my eyes before breakfast, and I suppose I appeared at that meal as serene as any other person: not, however, quite as jocund-looking as the young lady who placed herself in the seat opposite mine, fixed on me a pair of somewhat small eyes twinkling gleefully, and frankly stretched across the table a white hand to be shaken.
John and his mother were both in their finest mood, contending animatedly with each other the whole way, and as frankly kind to me as if I had been of their kin.
"Je sais bien qu'elle n'a pas de principes, ni, peut-être, de moeurs," admitted Madame frankly; but added with philosophy, "son maintien en classe est toujours convenable et rempli même d'une certaine dignité: c'est tout ce qu'il faut.
Tell me, frankly, what it is that you don't like.
" "I didn't think you'd care much," said the Story Girl frankly.
Griggs was frankly wont to explore the house from cellar to attic, and her report of its condition was always the same—"neat as wax.
But I've stayed two—and oh, but I've enjoyed them," she added frankly.
She had offered friendship frankly but it had not been accepted very graciously, if it had not been absolutely repelled.
As they turned into the little lane that led across the fields to the Point they met a man coming out of it—a man of such extraordinary appearance that for a moment they both frankly stared.
" She returned to the hearth, and frankly extended her hand.
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
" "Why, indeed, my dear Cyrus," said Spilett, "we have never thanked you; but frankly, without that fire we should never have been able—" "A fire?
She was a handsome old lady with white curls and dimpled, peachy cheeks, and she was as good as gold, but she had never approved of her brother any more than did the rest of the world, and having a strong will of her own and not being at all afraid to speak her mind frankly, she had, after several lively quarrels with his lordship, seen very little of him since her young days.
" "It jolts you more than you think it will," admitted his young lordship frankly.
A conspicuous quality in the Dodson character was its genuineness; its vices and virtues alike were phases of a proud honest egoism, which had a hearty dislike to whatever made against its own credit and interest, and would be frankly hard of speech to inconvenient "kin," but would never forsake or ignore them,—would not let them want bread, but only require them to eat it with bitter herbs.
