Sometimes he used tact, but he was sometimes brutally frank.

"I hear you've been raising the devil," said this singularly frank admirer.

We have often told lies, but now you may depend on hearing the truth," which was a refreshingly frank admission.

On the contrary, her nature was exceedingly frank, even defiant, and from pride, perhaps, rather than principle, she scorned no baseness so heartily as duplicity.

You have been extraordinarily frank, but you have forgotten one element, to me of some importance: you have not told me what my part is in this insane adventure.

Her comments were delightfully frank and original, as she had an unusually good memory.

"At least," said Charteris at length, "you are commendably frank.

' Margaret thought her amazingly frank, but nothing suggested itself in the way of answer, so she remained silent. 'Did you know that your father and my father were friends at Oxford?' Lady Maud asked, after a little pause.

The young couple met each other usually in the rather close air of her candle-lighted living-room, drinking a great deal of tea, consuming large numbers of delicate, strangely compounded sandwiches, and listening to an endless flow of somewhat startlingly frank personalities from the magnetic mistress of the house.

" The company listened in silence with the intensest interest to this animated conversation, the women following with as close attention as the men (the Duchess nodding her approval of Mr. Morris's opinions from time to time), and 'twas but a sample of the almost incredibly frank political discussion taking place daily in all the notable salons of Paris.

Moreover, if we don't go tonight it will not be of much use to go at all; for if we wait until the morning I fancy we shall find that most of the stores have disappeared, especially the Black Crow tobacco," Katherine replied, then told him of the look she had seen pass between the man who wanted the tobacco and Oily Dave, after she had been so foolishly frank in explaining where the stores were to be found.

you can be useful all right, I give you my word, Bluff," said Frank, gaily.

" "I am telling it right here," said Frank, grimly, "and I want to know who did the trick.

But I am exceedingly indebted to you for being so honourably frank with me.

Well, he's a liberal curate, very jolly, frank, very frank, one of those like Padre Paco.

Jack's answers were luminously frank.

"Suppose you try the steamer, then," suggested Frank, meaningly.

"I am sorry I said anything that seemed unfitting," said Frank, meekly.

Thekla, however, is nobly frank with Max and warns him to trust only his own heart; for she realizes that the threads of a dark plot are drawing close about herself and Max, though she does not clearly understand what it is.

" "What an outrageously frank exposure of a universally concealed sentiment!

You've been rather painfully frank; so will I be.

His manners were remarkably frank and ingenuous, yet soft and refined.

They'd think you were bragging or lying if you mentioned it, and" "You know well enough that I am not given to boasting about myself, professor, and so you are wasting your breath," said Frank, rather resentfully.

"Well," said Frank, a bit sharply, "you have not explained yourself.

" "From indigestion," said Frank, very soberly.