There is a school for calling a spade by no other name, and they have still to learn that the world is by no means interested in their clatter of shovels.
The Psalmist knew much of which he did not write, and the young men of the modern school of poesy and fiction know no more, but they lack the good taste of the singer of old.

That is all.
Karl Steinmetz was a man who formed his opinion on the best basis--namely, experience, and that had taught him that a bold reticence does less harm to one's neighbor than a weak volubility.
Paul was an easy subject for such treatment.

His own method inclined to err on the side of reticence.

He gave few confidences and asked none, as is the habit of Englishmen.
"Well," he said, "I do not suppose he will stay long at Thors, and I know that he will not stay at all at Osterno.

Besides, what harm can he actually do to us?
He cannot well go about making enquiries.