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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To conceal an unlucky rent, if a curtain is adjusted over a window to veil a broken pane, if a footstool is carefully placed over an oil stain on the carpet, their hands, as if by instinct, drag away the friendly screen and reveal the hidden offence.
as for French gold and plated silver and paste diamonds and imitation lace, dyed silks, cleaned gloves, and other genteel shams and expedients,
There is not the faintest chance that they will pass current with your tactless guest.
If perforce her lips are silent, the close investigation and significant glances of her tell tale eyes quickly announce that she is not duped by the imposture.
Then, if there is a sore subject to anyone present, it is always stumbled upon, though with no unkind intention by these tactless people.
They will discourse about profligate sons and thankless daughters before sorrowing parents, and rail at unworthy husbands before heartbroken wives, and
and bemoan the wretchedness of marriage before ill matched partners.
If a girl has been jilted, they innocently endeavour to entertain her with an account of the wedding of a gay young friend,
If a sick child lies gasping in its mother's arms, the consolation they offer is a history of the deaths they have known from just such illnesses, and
They are very much surprised if an impression slowly reaches them that they have created confusion or occasioned distress.
They assure you that they had no such design, and doubtless they had none.
It was only the absence of that sixth sense called tact.
Which rendered them so obnoxious as companions, and which always will cause their presence to be dreaded and shunned.
Singularly enough, their own sensibilities are remarkably acute.
No one can be more quickly wounded than they if their blunt speeches are retorted, and the arrows sent back hit their own vulnerable points.
Do we estimate tact too highly in thinking it a positive virtue?
One of the indispensable elements of an agreeable character is
Was it not Dr.
Johnson who said that politeness was benevolence in trifles?
If politeness be the offspring of good feeling evinced in social minutia,
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