He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so
naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.
Queen Guenever was as
naively interested as the rest, and said she had never seen anybody with legs just like mine before.
The wife of a nobleman of the time speaks of this as an "inconvenience," but
naively remarks that "it does not seem worthy of attention in the happy state of tranquillity we now enjoy."
"I am sure they must be wanting me back, sir," he said
naively.
His hair had grown thinner, the same straight mustaches hid his lips, the same eyes gazed strangely and
naively at his visitor.
"Is not that always so?" said the Theatin
naively, removing further from the lamp his thin pointed face, like that of a mole.
And, without reckoning our Pierre Gringoire, who may represent them in the fifteenth century if we succeed in bestowing upon him the distinction which he deserves, it certainly was their spirit which animated Father du Breul, when he wrote, in the sixteenth, these
naively sublime words, worthy of all centuries: "I am a Parisian by nation, and a Parrhisian in language, for parrhisia in Greek signifies liberty of speech; of which I have made use even towards messeigneurs the cardinals, uncle and brother to Monsieur the Prince de Conty, always with respect to their greatness, and without offending any one of their suite, which is much to say."
The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on
naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables.
"I like bacon, but I can never look at a pig without wondering if they were ever intended to be eaten," remarked Cecily
naively.
"I'm awful frightened," she said,
naively; "whoever would have thought that Poncho would have been so scared by a lot of cows?"
The only one who was not afraid of a cut was Marija, who congratulated herself, somewhat
naively, that there had been one in her place only a short time before she came.
"Yes, sir," replied the young man
naively; "I felt a great chill at my heart, and at the word `fire,' which resounded in Spanish from the enemy's ranks, I closed my eyes and thought of you."