"Yes," I replied; "to be frank with you, I should say that Lady Studley was consumptive.

Encourage him to be frank, and we will get Mr. Davis to pardon him.

Now I'm beaten, I'm going to be frank" He paused and resumed in a low voice: "When

Still more did the tumbledown shacks in the neighborhood of the cannery offend the eyes and, to be frank, the ears and nose as well.

But for their color, and, to be frank, for a little more restraint and thoughtfulness in their really unusual singing, they were just young Methodists at a convention, not different from Caucasian Methodists of the same age.

"I shall be satisfied if Annette escape convulsions," Eve added, "a refined taste being her weakness; and, to be frank, what I recollect of the works you mention, is not of the most flattering nature.

" "Pray, sir," asked the commodore, with dignity, "what are you in the practice of saying, when you speak of such matters; for, to be frank with you, we always use these terms on these lakes.

To be frank, Marjorie, he told me about the conversation with your mother, and how startled he was.

" "Why?" "Well, to be frank, sir, the countess still owes our firm a large sum for purchases.

To be frank with you, I think the chances are against rescuing the boy alive.

"To be frank, then," Selingman went on, "you, Norgate, during these momentous days have been the most useful of all my helpers here.

"And I you, Miss Longworth," he answered heartily, "but to be frank with you, I would rather have met you somewhere else.

'Well, to be frank with you'and never did a man look less frank as he spoke'I am waiting here for some of those people with whom I do business; but in some way they have not come yet, and I am inclined to take a walk round the marsh on the chance of finding them, if they have lost their way.

How simple and true and honest he was, will appear from a letter to his son, G.W. Custis Lee, written some time before: "You must study," he wrote, "to be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

To be frank, he thinks, is to be cynical; and to be independent, is to be rude.

The idea of her husband should be excluded from a promise which is meant to be frank upon impossible conditions.

To be frank, I have been sulking as irrationally as a baby who clamours for the moon yonder.

Her gratitude to Wayne for that very understanding made her regret the more her inability to be frank with him about the man who mended the boats.

But Lord Stanway is a gentleman, and I'll undertake he'll do nothing inconsiderate of your feelings, if you're disposed to be frank.

For, to be frank, I should not feel at all secure if that happened.

I've brought you down here because you have the faculty of making men think they hate youthen going out and working their heads off for you, because well, to be frank, you're the biggest, blunderingest, hardest-working blusterer that I ever sawand you're the only man who can pull me through.

"But now, to be frank with you, you don't seem altogether happy.

Sole hope of this my household, martial maid Whom ordered ranks and discipline austere Have shaped (I gather) for a braver trade, So that respect, not all unmixed with fear, Informs my breast as I await you here, Your title, with its stern Cæsarian touch, Does, to be frank, alarm me very much.

"Declaring him your favorite, madam, is sufficient to render me partial to him; but to be frank, independent of that, I think him an agreeable man."

" "I was hurt," he said, "to be frank with you.