But Lady Mary was not really deceived; only very grateful to the man who was so tender of heart, so tactful of speech, as to make it seem even faintly possible that she had misjudged her boy.

It is pleasant to think of the Pan-Islamic merriment with which Abdul Hamid must have viewed the indignant exit of his Christian brother, who had come such a long way to see him, and was so tactful about the Armenian atrocities.

She was even tactful in her loud fond clumsy way, with a tact that insistently boomed and buzzed about its victim's head.

" The meeting was just breaking up, after a speech whose closing words had been a shade less tactful than the occasion called for.

Our life went on precisely as beforeMabel unreal and outwardly so still; Frances, secretive, anxious, tactful to the point of slyness, and keen to save to the point of self-forgetfulness.

He has been sent to take charge of the case, sobe tactful with him.