Well, the guilelessness of heroes!

Observed thus, off his guard and at tolerably close range, with his face clean of soot, he projected a personality so forbidding that Lanyard marvelled at the guilelessness which must have influenced the ladies of Château de Montalais to accept the man at his own valuation and give him a place in their household.

What! Monk, stretched out upon a leather couch in his sitting-room, levelled eyebrows of suspicion at Lanyard, who countered with a guilelessness so perfect as to make it appear that he did not even comprehend the insinuation.

The guilelessness in that address went a little too far.

"Am I to be a child for everI, that am so old, and have lost my boy?" He thought there was something in her of the child that never grows up; the guilelessness, the charm, the ready tears and smiles, the quick changes of mood.

Innocence and guilelessness may be laughed at, as they are here, but their appeal is often stronger than the appeal of disciplined virtue or of self-conscious superiority.

He was much too sore and shaken to be subtle; and the general trend of his conjectures was perfectly legible to Lanyard, who without delay set himself to conjure away any lingering suspicion of his guilelessness.

" I smiled at the guilelessness of the boy who was making a confidant of a stranger.

Tom's better angel had returned; Grace's tender guilelessness, which would with too many men only have marked her out as the easier prey, was to him as a sacred shield before her innocence.

The guilelessness and cunning of child and fiend were in his dumb soul.

Those who know him most intimately find in him, despite his strong, practical common sense, despite his years of hard work in the world, despite the many times he has been deceived and imposed upon, a certain boyish simplicity and guilelessness of heart, a touch of the poetic, idealistic temperament that sees gold where there is only brass; that hopes and believes, where reason for hope and belief there is none.

The girl looked so candid, so flowerlike in her guilelessness, that the thought seemed a pollution.

For nothing has mollified mannot the prey brought him by a famishing spaniel, nor the humble guilelessness of the shepherd-dog, guarding the peace of the shadowy flocks under the stars.

" Patience, kindness, generosity, humility, courtesy, unselfishness, good temper, guilelessness, sinceritythese make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.

Guilelessness and sincerity may be dismissed almost without a word.

Guilelessness is the grace for suspicious people.

That Laurence Sterne passed the first eleven years of his life with such an exemplar of these simple virtues of kindliness, guilelessness, and courage ever before him, is perhaps the best that can be said for the lot in which his early days were cast.

they asked, simply, to which Jimmie replied with equal guilelessness that Americans in Europe had no time to rob other people, they were so busy in being robbed.

The widow looked the picture of guilelessness as she asked the question.

pursue I presently, with infantile guilelessness; "was her hair red then?

The question was asked with the air of guilelessness.