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When she could succeed in forgetting herself completely, and in giving utterance by her lovely voice to all that was highest and best in her soul, he, whose ear was no less sensitive and appreciative than his father's, would frankly express his approval, and in these moments life was indeed fair and precious.
The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came, Mr. Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale. He was very genial and very appreciative of what we had done, and took off our hands all cares as to details. During lunch he told us that Mrs. Westenra had for some time expected sudden death from her heart, and had put her affairs in absolute order.
Nevertheless I sometimes notice a spirit of inquiry, a note of investigation in her encounters with the opposite sex that suggests an expectation not yet extinct that another and perhaps a more appreciative Dacres Tottenham may flash across her field of vision alas, how improbable!
The Arabs, in their turn, knew how to consolidate their rule. They were no bloodthirsty savages, bent solely on loot and destruction. On the contrary, they were an innately gifted race, eager to learn and appreciative of the cultural gifts which older civilizations had to bestow.
With this was a personal note from her friend, congratulating her, and explaining that his estimate of her book had been more than borne out by his readers. "I don't want you to think others less appreciative than I," was his tactful way of intimating that her work had been accepted on its merits alone. The letters took Mary's breath away. She had no idea that her work could fetch such a price.
While we sat in a circle, listening in appreciative silence, he nervously paced the room, reading aloud in his full sonorous voice a voice that always seemed remarkable in so frail a man his face flushed and his manner embarrassed, for, far from being overconfident about his work, he always seemed to feel a sort of shy anxiety lest it should not be up to the mark.
"From the so-called cow-tree," said Bess soberly, "which is found quite commonly in the jungles of Brazil. You score the bark and the wood immediately beneath it with an axe, or machette, insert a sliver of clean wood, and the milky sap trickles forth into your cup " "How ridiculous!" interposed Nan, while the baggage-man burst into appreciative laughter.
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. Appreciative surprise gazes at him, beseeching forgiveness, wherever he is known, as surely as happy faces welcome your Majesty's entry into any Netherland city.
"Try me and see what an appreciative listener I am," rejoined Mabel, with a sickly smile, and the concert commenced. Overmuch thought upon the revelation of the preceding day had begotten in her, fears of the imminence of the dangers to Winston's peace of mind a persuasion that the birds of the air and the restless air itself might bear to him the news she still withheld.
Sensible men would be willing to receive her, should women ever refuse to acknowledge her. Wendell Phillips paid her an appreciative tribute, at her funeral.
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