Kelly Taylor
speaker
131 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Kelly Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and ever after judged of the high breeding and good nature of the persons presented to him by noticing whether their eyes wandered to the empty coat sleeves.
He knew that those who appeared perfectly unconscious of his loss were influenced by considerate delicacy, while those whose eyes were constantly turned to the former locality of the deficient member had souls of a rude texture, insensible to fine perceptions or sympathetic emotions.
countless people belong to this last mentioned order of beings, and seem to possess an especial gift of spying out and pitiless dragging to light imperfections which politeness ignores.
Their scrutinizing eyes are ever upon a voyage of discovery.
And who does not shrink from their merciless scanning?
Who has not felt that being observed when observation is not sympathy is just being tortured?
Yet from this torture we never need hope to escape while a member, especially a feminine member, of the tactless family is present.
Be sure that her lynx eyes will detect the first unwelcome thread of silver that winds its shining way among raven locks, and will as certainly proclaim the unsuspected intruder.
But she makes the announcement with no malicious intent she is quite unconscious of wounding one yet unreconciled to the sore necessity of growing old.
Your tactless friend seems physically unable to avoid personalities, and
Let a pair of smiling lips disclose pearls of striking unnatural whiteness and regularity, and she is immediately impelled to descant upon false teeth.
She unfailingly discusses the angularity and of grace of meagre people before those who are vainly seeking flesh in cod liver oil.
and every other known promoter of rounded outlines, and she invariably expresses her disgust for unseemly rotundity before unfortunates who are martyriz themselves by futile efforts to reduce their unsymmetrical proportion through compression and starvation.
Or to conceal them by manifold arts of the toilet.
Tactless people are especially given to criticize dress and
Woe to the hapless fair one who has been forced by poverty into some little untasteful expedient.
Or who bears about her a darn or a slight fracture which she nervously hoped might escape notice.
Be all on peradventure, a pair of rebuking, tactless eyes will forthwith fasten upon the imperfection.
Beware too the hands of the tactless they are human magnets to attract and draw out defects.
If a vase of flowers is turned to the wall to hide an unsightly crack, if a cushion is arranged on the sofa to
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