Of course, we were of calibre too totally unlike ever to be congenial companions, but I appreciated his sound common sense in the little matters within his range, and his bluntly straightforward, fairly good-natured, manner.

The influential man, then, if he be one who is genuinely straightforward and loves what is just and right, a discriminator of men's words, and an observer of their looks, and in honor careful to prefer others to himselfwill certainly have influence, both throughout the country and at home.

A few there may be amongst the lot who are authoritative, or saucy, or ill-naturedly solemn; but the generality are simple-dealing, quaintly-exhuberant, oddly-straightforward, and primitively-pious peopledistinctly sincere, periodically eccentric, and fond of a good religious outburst, a shining spiritual fandango now, and then.

" Another: "She is almost pitifully straightforward, man.

' This is a singularly straightforward way of stating a view which silently influences a much greater number of men than it is pleasant to think of.

And, unless you knew my aunt very well, you could not conceive how unscrupulously straightforward she is in carrying out her plans.