he said blandly.

I believe some very good people are visiting the Ullwethers nowadays?" She extended the letters, blandly.

"What news, Patricia?" Inquired the old gentleman blandly.

Surely a man who has behaved as gallantly as youNo, captain, I cannot believe it!" "Mademoiselle," he said blandly, "still has much to learn of the world.

Yet with indulgent politeness he remained blandly reticent.

"I had hoped as much," he remarked blandly.

Frenchman was one day blandly remonstrating against the supercilious scorn expressed by Englishmen for the beef of France, which he, for his part, did not find so inferior to that of England.

Fast developing into a good American, his natural trait of curiosity gave him the advantage of acquiring information blandly and with ease.

she repeated in a toneless voice every item of the programme outlined for her, while Victor nodded in undisguised delight, and Shaik Tsin grinned blandly over her head.

Mr. Van Torp stuck his thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and blandly insisted that the cables should be kept red-hotat international expensetill the member of the Cabinet in Washington should answer corroborating the statement.

Castagno indeed renders Judas so obviously untrustworthy as to make it a surprise that he ever was admitted among the disciples (or wished to be one) at all; while Vasari blandly suggests that he is the very image of the painter himself.

I flattened his striped sides along my knee, And reasoned with him on his bloody mind, Till he looked blandly, and half-closed his eyes To ponder on my lecture in the shade.

she inquired blandly, as she watched the Customs examination of our things.

After devoting pages to the Château, its grounds, pictures, and statues, and detailing exhaustively the riches of the Trianons, he blandly mentions the gardens of the Petit Trianon as containing "some fine exotic trees, an artificial lake, a Temple of Love, and a hamlet where the Court ladies played at peasant life.

" "I don't expect the young ladies to do anything against their inclinations," he answered blandly.

she inquired, blandly.

"Now, my dear sir, that we are alone," began he blandly.

But blandly still he went on.

" "No doubt it is that," said the countess blandly, "but from the number of sick and wounded who arrive here, to say nothing of those taken to Odessa and the other towns among which, as you say, the prisoners are distributed, it is to be wished that the reinforcements may soon be up, so as to bring the fighting to an end.

"Japan," I blandly announced, "is about to join the foes of Germany."

If he is near the centre of the front he will tell you blandly, in answer to your question, that a great movement may not improbably be expected at the wings.

If he is at either of the wings he will tell you blandly that a great movement may not improbably be expected at the centre.

The girl blandly laughed: "You venerable ingrate!"

When his turn came he entered the superintendent's office, whom he found to be a very kindly spoken gentleman, and brought matters to a quick head by blandly asking him for employment.

The old fox blandly absorbed it, and took the opportunity to say, "Of course it is understood that matters are to go no further between you and Walter Clifford.