I had not the heart to smile--nor did the Hon. Samuel--so artless and simple was the man and so pathetic his appeal.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
At his request, I put some little German songs into English, which he published as sheet-music, with my name. To hear my words sung quite gave me the feeling of a successful translator. The professor had his own distinctive name for each of his pupils. Eliza was "Naivete," from her artless manners ; and me he called " Etheria," probably on account of my star- gazing and verse-writing habits. Certainly there was never anything ethereal in my visible presence.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"To the theatre without you!" cried she in a tone of amazement; "enjoy any pleasure you do not share! O my Roger! you do not deserve a kiss," she added, throwing her arms round his neck with an artless and impassioned impulse.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
The words were spoken with an artless accent which revealed either a pure heart or inscrutable depths. How could a woman, who had been the friend of Duclos and the Marechal de Richelieu, refrain from trying to read the riddle of this marriage? Aunt and niece were standing on the steps, gazing after the fast vanishing caleche. The look in the young Countess' eyes did not mean love as the Marquise understood it. The good lady was a Provencale, and her passions had been lively.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Involuntarily Julie shuddered, something in the experienced coquette's look and tone seemed to say that Mme. de Listomere-Landon's knowledge of her husband's character went perhaps deeper than his wife's. d'Aiglemont, in dismay, took refuge in this transparent dissimulation, ready to her hand, the first resource of an artless unhappiness. de Listomere appeared to be satisfied with Julie's answers; but in her secret heart she rejoiced to think that here was a love affair on hand to enliven her solitude, for that her niece had some amusing flirtation on foot she was fully convinced.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"I can't help fancying, dear, in spite of her innocent face and her artless ways, that your young friend is a hypocrite."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》