At this the lad had nothing to say, for in spite of his apparent brusqueness his heart melted more quickly, and his eyes filled easier with tears, at a pathetic story, than did his sister's.

The Duchess of Azay had accepted her invitation with characteristic brusqueness.

reply I, with impatient brusqueness; "why were you surprised at my not having heard of her?" "I was not surprised.

'He seems charming,' he repeated, then said with a change of tone and with his occasional impulsive brusqueness, 'I wonderdoes he ever jar on you in any way?' 'Oh no.

First, I felt his pulse, grasping his wrist with intentional brusqueness in the hope of rousing him from his stupor.

and she snipped off a rose with a kind of miniature brusqueness.

'He seems charming,' he repeated, then said with a change of tone and with his occasional impulsive brusqueness, 'I wonderdoes he ever jar on you in any way?' 'Oh no.

He writes with a sudden brusqueness to accuse Voltaire of showing about his manuscripts, which, he says, had only been sent him on the condition of un secret inviolable.

Besides, you're a beauty," with tender brusqueness, "and a charmer that steals the hearts of men.