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Bertram, what if they don't like it?" Her voice had grown tragic again. "Like it!" "Yes. The picture me, I mean." "They can't help liking it," he retorted, with the prompt certainty of an adoring lover. Billy shook her head. Her eyes had gone back to the fire. "Oh, yes, they can. I can hear them. 'What, she Bertram Henshaw's wife? a frivolous, inconsequential "Billy" like that? Bertram!"
I stand here before you to-night, loving you, adoring you, worshipping you, and knowing myself a dishonored man, a weak, proved coward, whose truth is lost forever. "I do not ask you for a word. I do not say a word further. I will not perjure myself more deeply. I only say this as a farewell confession.
You look so white. Are you faint? Take my arm; lean on me. Were you going to lie down?" "I'm going to the Staff-Room. I can manage myself; but, Gladys, find Miss Gifford, and ask her to come to me as soon as she is free. Tell her I'm not well. You're a dear girl, Gladys. Thank you for being so kind to me all these years." Gladys rolled adoring blue eyes, and sped on her mission.
By the same system other women are made the playthings of circumstance and the soul is ever like a frosted flower bud. Years ago a man, attracted by the soft girlishness and touched by the adoring deference to his sex, bade this girl marry him without the authority of her father. Nothing had been developed in her to resist outside conditions.
The relief in the poor little face was so immense that Betty's heart shook before it. Lady Anstruthers looked up at her with adoring eyes. "I might have known," she said; "I might have known that that you would only say the right thing. You couldn't say the wrong thing, Betty." Betty bent over her and spoke almost yearningly.
By giving a command, by bestowing a few moments of her conversation, it was within her power to make some small adoring girl absurdly happy for the rest of the day; while her displeasure would result in tears, in fawning pleadings for forgiveness. The homage did not spoil her. Rather it helped to develop her. She accepted it from the beginning as in the order of things.
""Maheswara said, 'O lady that art highly blessed, the excellent Prajapati Daksha is adoring the gods in a Horse-sacrifice. These denizens of heaven are proceeding even thither. ""Uma said, 'Why, O Mahadeva, dost thou not proceed to that Sacrifice? What objection is there of thy going to that place?
She had imagined Milly Stewart to have been leading for two undisturbed years the busily tranquil life proper to her; adoring Ian and the baby, managing her house, and going sometimes to church and sometimes to committees, without wholly neglecting the cultivation of the mind.
"Sip a little; it will give you strength," he said in the voice of authority; and she obediently sipped. "I'll go," she said, but held him with her adoring child's eyes for a minute still, then slipped from the chair and went to the door. But there she turned, and with her head pitifully lifted faced the two men. "My papa has done nothing wrong," she said.
Down she flowed in a magnificent curtsey, her hands supporting her brocade on either side, her head bent majestic Beauty adoring Power. Suddenly my Lord steps nimbly forward on the dais. "What?" he cries. "Do my eyes deceive me? Impossible! But sure I have the happiness to see the daughter of my old friend, and I am honoured beyond expression to welcome her beneath my roof.
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