“Cuteness.”
He possessed a great share of that characteristic national trait so happily denominated “cuteness,” which signifies an ability to do everything without trying, to know everything without learning, and to make more use of one’s ignorance than other people do of their knowledge.
Making people like us.
It sometimes goes a great way towards making people like us to take it for granted that they do already.
A common mode of reasoning.
She therefore repeated over exactly what she said before, only in a much louder tone of voice, and with much more vehement forms of asseveration,—a mode of reasoning which, if not entirely logical, has at least the sanction of very respectable authorities among the enlightened and learned.
Danger in apparent safety.