There was that in the very simpleness and quietness of Eleanor's answer that put her negative beyond a question.
Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it.
Thus they buzzed, Self-praised, and knowing not that simpleness Is sacred soil, and sown with royal seed, The heroic seed and saintly.
So much so in its tear-wet simpleness and utter lack of any effort at concealment, that after one quick look at it Betty's hastened pulses ceased to beat at double-quick time.
She had no conception of the primeval simpleness of their attitude in such matters, and that no ceremonies were necessary save the process of transferring sufficiently large sums as though they were the mere right of the recipients.
The colonel was a good-tempered, jovial man, and his wife quietness and simpleness personified.
Yet, if, notwithstanding his opportunities to make a fortune, he did not even leave us even what he had got, he at least left us his simpleness unimpaired.
The truth, if he had been old enough to be aware of it, was that the entire simpleness of her acceptance of things as they were, and a something which was unconsciousness of any cause for complaint, moved his child masculinity enormously.
You WERE everything," Robin said--and the mere simpleness of the way in which she said it brought the garden so near that he smelt the warm hawthorn and heard the distant piano organ and it quickened his breath.
They who were brave to act, And rich enough their action to forget; Who, having filled their day with chivalry, Withdraw and keep their simpleness intact, And all unconscious add more lustre yet Unto their victory.
He has promised me he will never ask me to sell it,' she said, with a simpleness that could hardly have been acted.
She remembered long afterward the sweet simpleness of her feelings as she took in the scent of wild flowers along the lanes and entered the woods jaws of another monstrous and blackening experience.
There was a little subdued air; a little additional gravity, a trifle more of tenderness in her looks and ways, which told of the simpleness of heart with which she had quietly taken what God gave and was content with it.
So with the very eagerness of love Faith read the Bible to Miss Dilly; and so as she had done before, many a time, early and late, in childlike simpleness prayed at her bedside and by her chair.
They both came to me first in the shape of a little book in which was inscribed, "Never anything can be amiss when simpleness and duty tender it.
As to the primary genera, however, the distinction to be established does not proceed from simpleness or compositeness, but ofsimpleness and what completes being.
I will hear that play; For never anything can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it.
So turns she every man the wrong side out And never gives to truth and virtue that Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
