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Pagan æsthetics were purer and nobler than the system, which, under that name, finds favor with our generation." She listened, not assentingly, but without any manifestation of impatience, and while he talked, her eyes rested dreamily upon the yellow beach, where, "Trampling up the sloping sand, In lines outreaching far and wide, The white-maned billows swept to land."
He became a guest at her London house, and his report of the domesticity there, and notably of the lord of the house, pleased Lady Dunstane more than her husband's. He saw the kind of man accurately, as far as men are to be seen on the surface; and she could say assentingly, without anxiety: 'Yes, yes, to his remarks upon Mr.
"Dunk's a great hand to go around shooting off his mouth about things he's no business to buy into, and old Splinter let him down on his face once or twice. Chip can sure give a man a hard fall when he wants to, and not use many words, either. What little he does say generally counts." The Little Doctor's memory squirmed assentingly. "It's the tone he uses," she said, reflectively.
The dumb creature looked in his face assentingly, and with a sharp bark took the flock charge. Then the shepherd walked up to the group, and Jim Armstrong rose to meet him. "Nae dirks," said an old man quietly; "tak your hands like men." Before the speech was over they were clinched in a grasp which meant gigantic strength on one side, and a good deal of practical bruising science on the other.
Pritchard "You can just save your breath to cool your porridge You can't get nothin' out'n her." "But she's traveled 'round so much, seems's though ..." began the other woman's voice. "Don't it?" struck in old Mrs. Pritchard assentingly, "But 'tain't so!" The other was at a loss. "Do you mean she's stuck-up and won't answer you?" Mrs.
I think she meant to tell you." She inclined her head assentingly, without words. He noticed her dark eyes resting on him with a kind of pity. He had cherished a faint hope the very faintest that she might welcome what he had just said sympathetically. In the few minutes during which she remained silent that hope died.
She set on a pair of the daintiest elfin socks that ever were knitted. Ah, Muriel, Muriel! The father took great delight in this change, in her resuming her simple work, and going about constantly with her mother. "What a comfort she will be to Ursula one day an eldest daughter always is. So will she: will she not, Uncle Phineas?" I smiled assentingly. Alas! his burthens were heavy enough!
"I saw you," she said, "from my window coming to the house, and I have been waiting for you here. I wished to speak to you alone. Allow me to walk beside you." Kenelm inclined his head assentingly, but made no answer. They were nearly midway between the cottage and the burial-ground when Mrs. Cameron resumed, her tones quick and agitated, contrasting her habitual languid quietude,
Dowager lady Chia nodded her head assentingly. "She's too kind to think of me!" she answered smiling. "But should there be any more uncooked, let them fry a couple of pieces; and, if these be thoroughly immersed in wine, the congee will taste well with them. The soup is, it's true, good, but it shouldn't, properly speaking, be prepared with fine rice."
Scarcely was the cause thus decided before Peters glided up to the clerk, and whispered in his ear; when the latter, nodding assentingly, opened his desk, and taking out two nicely-folded papers, handed them slyly to the other, who, receiving them in the same manner, immediately left the court-room and proceeded down stairs.
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