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And at length a face came out of the twilight: a freckled face, benevolently bent over him under a starched cap. He had not seen the face for a long time, but suddenly it took shape and fitted itself into the picture... Laura Fairford sat near by, a book on her knee. At the sound of his voice she looked up. "What was the name of the first nurse?" "The first ?" "The one that went away."
"I'll tell you what you needn't hand me the money, provided you agree to take the ticket off my hands at fifty dollars if I secure it." "Certainly I will, and be very thankful to you." "I always like to help young men along," said the stranger benevolently. "I'll see about it to-morrow. Now, where can I meet you?" "In this room. How will that do?" "Perfectly.
He looked at her good-humoredly, one might almost have said benevolently, and the old woman returned his looks distrustfully, as if she suspected a trap, and said: "It seems all right, as far as I am concerned, but it will not give you the farm." "Never mind about that," he said, "you will remain here as long as it pleases God Almighty to let you live; it will be your home.
Marmaduke looked benevolently upon his sister-in-law, seemed quite to forget she was "a young lady," and even was heard to call her "my child" four times, at which she was very pleased and proud. Over and over again, with youth's wild thirst to be happy, she tried to forget the weight on her life, and plunge into a temporary gaiety.
Comrade Maude's stud of Angoras is celebrated wherever the English language is spoken." Mr. Jarvis's expression changed. He rose, and, having inspected John with silent admiration for a while, extended a well-buttered hand towards him. Smith looked on benevolently. "What Comrade Maude does not know about cats," he said, "is not knowledge. His information on Angoras alone would fill a volume."
He called her Miss Wodehouse in his heart even while in the act of making comparisons very unfavourable to the Rector's wife, and then he introduced benevolently the subject of his new rectory, which surely must be safe ground. "It is a pretty little place," Mr Proctor said, with satisfaction: "of course it is but a small living compared to Carlingford.
So he shrieks benevolently when a drunken soldier is flogged; but he trims his paletots, and adorns his legs, with the flesh of men and the skins of women, with degradation, pestilence, heathendom, and despair; and then chuckles self-complacently over the smallness of his tailors' bills. Hypocrite! straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel!
She turned her back upon Miss Skipwith, and lay so still that the excellent lady supposed she was dropping off to sleep. "A good night's rest will restore her, and she will awake with renewed appetite for knowledge," she murmured benevolently as she went back to her Swedenborgian studies. The nearest Way to Norway.
She would still preserve her reputation for being a close-mouthed woman who knew a lot more about everything than she chose to tell. "Anybody can see she's wearing mournin'," she added benevolently. "Oh, I thought mebbe she had a black dress on because they're stylish. She did look awful pretty in it, with her arms and neck showing through. I like black myself; but mourning that's different.
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