There hang the two Aickins, brethren in mediocrityWroughton, who in Kitely seemed to have forgotten that in prouder days he had personated Alexanderthe specious form of John Palmer, with the special effrontery of BobbyBensley, with the trumpet-tongue, and little Quick (the retired Dioclesian of Islington) with his squeak like a Bart'lemew fiddle.

" Graham answered this smooth effrontery with a blunt question.

The lad stood there on the pavement talking with naive effrontery to a little book-stitcher of his acquaintance.

"Impudent as he was," says St. Simon, "great as was the sway he had acquired over his master, he found himself very much embarrassed, and masked his effrontery by ruse; he told the Duke of Orleans that he had dreamed a funny dream, that he was Archbishop of Cambrai.

His visage was of the most extraordinary kind; habit had written the characters of malignant cunning and dauntless effrontery in every line of his face; and Mrs. Marney, who was neither philosopher nor physiognomist, was nevertheless struck.

"Reckon this is my affair," she announced, with an effrontery at which one of the footmen guffawed openly.

There have been many ages when the dense gloom of a heartless immorality seemed to settle down with unusual weight; there have been many places where, under the gaslight of an artificial system, vice has seemed to acquire an unusual audacity; but never probably was there any age or any place where the worst forms of wickedness were practiced with a more unblushing effrontery than in the city of Rome under the government of the Caesars.

If a policeman only enters a village he expects a feast from the head man, and will ask a present with unblushing effrontery as a perquisite of his office.