The frankness and kindliness of the Atterburys had been assumed to lure him to his fatal adventure.

His affability never contradicted itself; he expressed interest and kindliness to all; he showed himself indulgent to errors that could not be repaired; his majesty was tempered by a grave familiarity; and he wholly refrained from those pointed and ironical speeches which so cruelly wound when falling from the lips of a man that none can answer.

He looked at Patty with an especial kindliness in his eyes, and said gently: "Miss Fairfield, may I see your card?" Patty flushed a little and her eyes fell.

Naturally in a field hospital such as this, we had no nurses; but our orderlies, torn from mine shafts of Dumfriesshire and the engine sheds of the North British Railway, did their best, and compensated by much kindliness for their lack of nursing training.

And this had increased the miller's rancor against the soil; he hated it yet more than ever for its harshness to him, a peasant's son, and its kindliness towards that bourgeois, who seemed to have fallen from heaven expressly to revolutionize the region.

"Or," said Beltane, "the fool shall charm thy souls to kindliness with his pipe" "Ho, Roger!" cried the second forester, "split me this tall talker's yellow sconce, now!" "Come," growled Roger, threatening of mien, "yield us the fool, 'tis an arrant knave hath angered his lord!"

If, then, we seek to give a name to this particular five years, let us call it the period of humanitarianism, of man's really awakened kindliness toward his brothers of other nationalities.

Moffatt asked, his eyes lingering with real kindliness on the child's face.

Yet it was apparent that he regarded their kindliness as racial weakness.

" There was such an expression of kindliness about the old gentleman that Clement plucked up courage and told him of his homesickness.