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Sometimes she feared that an excitement and danger lurked in her future, but, after all, her days went by so calmly, and nearer things seemed so much more important than this vague sorrow and dread, that she went to and fro in the Dunport streets, and was courteous and kind in her own house, and read a sensible book now and then, and spent her time as benevolently and respectably as possible.
"But what a rough fellow this pioneer is. His voice hurts my ears, and he spoke to our leeches as if they had been his slaves." "He was vexed with the commission the princess had devolved on him," said the high-priest benevolently, "and his unamiable disposition is hardly mitigated by his real piety."
There's Sandersen's gun with no bullet fired, showing that, while he was stalking you, you shot and drilled him. Here's my gun with no sign of a shot fired. Which proves that I just slid in here and stuck you up from behind, while you were looking over the gent you'd just killed." He rubbed his hands together, and bracing himself firmly on his stubby legs, looked almost benevolently on Jig.
At Ragusa I found the headquarters of the agitation, there under the direction of the captain of the port, Kovachevich, a zealous Slavonic patriot. The movement was evidently regarded benevolently by the Kaiserlich-Koeniglich, and the insurgents came openly into the city, and returned again to their fighting with fresh supplies of ammunition and provisions.
During their existence they are subject to many disorders from which the generality of human beings are benevolently preserved; they possess no rights of any kind, and if by any chance they are detected in an act of a seemingly depraved nature, they are liable to judgment at the hands of the passers-by without any form whatever, and to punishment of a more severe order than that administered to commonplace criminals.
The old gentleman took the letter, nervously opened it, and read it slowly, saying each sentence over twice as though to get the full meaning. "Ah," he exclaimed, "he is going back to France to fight for the King!" Then he looked at Detricand sadly, benevolently. "Mon cher," said he, "if I could but persuade you to abjure the wine-cup and follow his example!"
Nothing can be further from the truth than this assumption, although men of high character and standing, and who are otherwise benevolently disposed towards the natives, have distinctly denied this right, and maintained that the natives were not entitled to have any choice of land reserved for them out of their own possessions, and in their respective districts.
"Why, I understood as much..." Ralph pushed on: "You knew it the day I met you in Mr. Spragg's office?" Moffatt considered a moment, as if the incident had escaped him. "Did we meet there?" He seemed benevolently ready for enlightenment.
Wherefore go thou about to release me and deal benevolently with me. 'O thou barbarous wretch, answered the fox, 'I liken thee, because of the fairness of thy professions and the foulness of thine intent and thy practice, to the hawk with the partridge. 'How so ? asked the wolf; and the fox said, The Hawk and the Partridge.
Maynard, and, to Sara's surprise, Garth Trent. As she entered the room, he turned quietly from the window where he had been standing looking out at the Herricks' charming garden. "Mr. Trent" Miss Lavinia fluttered forward "let me introduce you to Miss Tennant." The Lavender Lady's pretty, faded blue eyes beamed benevolently on him.
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