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You see he frets so after his mother. Think how little Tom would fret if he was away from you! Poor little Tom!" "La! Mr. Morton, you are such a man! there's no resisting your ways! You know how to come over me, don't you?" And Mrs. Morton smiled benignly, as she escaped from his conjugal arms and smoothed her cap. Peace thus restored, Mr.
A gleam of sunshine strayed over the countenance, and the editor answered, very benignly: "If the article meets with our approbation, we shall be very happy to afford you a medium of publication in our journal. Can we depend on your punctuality?" "I think so. What are your terms?" "Terms, madam? I supposed that your contribution was gratuitous," said he very loftily.
He shook his ringlets back angrily, and a scarlet spot showed on each straw-coloured cheek. "Twenty dollars is what Lacasse paid our dear Dauphin," said the Cure benignly, "and a very proper charge. Lacasse probably gave Monsieur there quite as much, and Monsieur will give it to the first poor man he meets, or send it to the first sick person of whom he hears."
David's Hall." He smiled benignly. "You do my hospitable impulses full justice, dear Esther," he declared. "Sometimes I think that you understand me almost as well as your dear mother. If, by any chance, Mr. Hamel should change his mind as to taking up his residence at the Tower, I think you would not find me in any sense of the word an obdurate or exacting guardian. Come along, Mr. Hamel.
"A what?" she asked sharply. "A princess." He smiled benignly on her, and, still beaming, struck a not ungraceful attitude. "I," he said, "am the Crown Prince of Rumtifoo." She stared at him without a word; gradually he lost countenance; a vague misgiving stirred within him that he had rather overdone the thing.
They rested on Dad, who was bending benignly over him. He seemed to recognise Dad. He stared for some time at him, then said something in a feeble whisper, which the clergyman interpreted "He wishes you " looking at Dad "to get what's in his swag if he dies." Dad nodded, and his thoughts went sadly back to the day he turned the poor devil out of the barn.
The listening Roman soldier, wearing the armor of the empire on the Tiber, comes within the circle of his promise. Into the face of Quintus he looks and benignly says: "There are other sheep not of the Jewish pasture, to whom I shall give this unending life. I covet your great empire as my own. O soldier of the Caesars, follow after me!"
You must come back to England and help me spend a bit." Monty had recovered a little his power of speech. He leaned over his spade and smiled benignly at his visitor. "There was a Trentham in the Guards," he said slowly, "the Honourable George Trentham, you know, one of poor Abercrombie's sons, but I thought he was dead.
Can you smile benignly, Susan?" Susan tried, and after one or two lessons from Patty, was pronounced proficient in that art. "Then, Susan, if there's music, you must listen, and wag your head in appreciation, so! When we dance, you must look on with interest and again smile benignly.
"Give me your opinion of my latest purchase the bronze lion on the cabinet there." Then, as Carlyle's gaze went about the room, he added quickly: "No, not that cabinet the one on your left." Carlyle shot a sharp glance at his host as he got up, but Carrados's expression was merely benignly complacent. Then he strolled across to the figure. "Very nice," he admitted. "Late Flemish, isn't it?"
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