" "He's a very decent fellow," protested Mr. Merrick, "and is considered in the city to be strictly honest.

" "Maybe it's because he's just plain honest," Winton said.

"Mr. Hawthorne was minutely and scrupulously honest; I should say that he was a rigid temperance man.

That was his idea, and as I found him true to it, I respected him accordingly, and mention his name as one of the few genuinely honest men I have met.

Shakspeare might not seem so great to us if we knew his peculiarities and infirmities as we know those of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Carlyle; only such a downright honest and good man as Dr. Johnson can stand the severe scrutiny of after times and "destructive criticism.

But Marianne was essentially honest and when her heart jumped as she heard a swift, light step come down the hall and pause at her door, she admitted at once that horses had nothing to do with the matter.

" The blow fell swift, unerring, dealt by the mercilessly honest hand of youth.

I never knew any really nice, lovable women who were unflinchingly honest.

Jack has the far finer mind, Burly the far more honest; Jack gives us the animated poetry, Burly the romantic prose, of similar themes; the one glances high like a meteor and makes a light in darkness; the other, with many changing hues of fire, burns at the sea-level, like a conflagration; but both have the same humour and artistic interests, the same unquenched ardour in pursuit, the same gusts of talk and thunderclaps of contradiction.

Lanjuinais has the merit of having acted with great courage in defence of himself and his party on the thirty-first of May 1792; but the following anecdote, recited by Gregoire* in the Convention a few days ago will sufficiently explain both his character and Gregoire's, who are now, however, looked up to as royalists, and as men comparatively honest.

some of us now and then are passably honest.

He was an emotional, full-blooded kind of man, reckless and dissipated but fundamentally honest and good-hearteda type very common in his day as the novels show, but not otherwise to be found in the ranks of its writers.

You're as intellectually honest as any one I know, and as greedy for the wrong things.'

The frauds he learn'd in his fanatic years Made him uneasy in his lawful gears; 60 At best, as little honest as he could, And, like white witches, mischievously good.

" "Nay but, lordhow shall honest flesh and blood go a-vanishing away into thin air whiles a man but blinketh an eye?"

I am afraid the last produces more of what is called a forgiving temper than the first; men being often called vindictive, when they are merely honest.

By the by, though, I had forgot:I may as well write to Messrs. Drax and Drayton about that money, and order them to pay it immediately to Coutts's,mighty honest people and all that: but faith, no solicitors should be trusted or tempted too far.

The parish was small, moderately honest, prosperous, and was used to the old priest, who had ruled it for thirty years.

And you're so naïvely honest in your talk about our wonderful country and its idealism and the contemptible defects of a few of us who have the long vision!

And he answers, with the contemptuous, but obviously honest inquiry"Who's WATSON?

She had been persistently earnest, passionately honest, absurdly grim.

He entirely misunderstood the people with whom he had to deal, and whether he was or was not himself personally honest, he based his chief hopes of success in dealing with others upon their supposed susceptibility to the influence of corruption and dishonorable intrigue.

Fortunately he did not read the precisely honest meaning hidden in my words.

Albert Charlton, like many other very conscientious men at his time of life, was quarrelsomely honest.

One is Mr. Brownson's; he is as fair and square as Euclid; a real honest, strong thinker, and one that knows what he is talking about,for he has tried all sorts of religions, pretty much.