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It would be hard to tell, for you do not as yet know, but that Madge herself hoidenish, blue-eyed Madge is to be the very one who will gain such hold upon your riper affections as she has held already over your boyish caprice.
Still he did not know what to say, and feeling that discomfort, he wanted the closure of all communication with a stranger who knew him more than his own wife. Still with the appropriate undaunted response such a caprice and aberration did not need to brand him in the Laotian's mind or his own.
When my toilette was ended, and I looked at myself with some complaisance, an icy shiver ran through me as I thought: "'Will Foedora walk or drive? Will it rain or shine? No matter, though, I said to myself; 'whichever it is, can one ever reckon with feminine caprice? She will have no money about her, and will want to give a dozen francs to some little Savoyard because his rags are picturesque.
Was it a playful charge on the part of my Ligeia? or was it a test of my strength of affection, that I should institute no inquiries upon this point? or was it rather a caprice of my own a wildly romantic offering on the shrine of the most passionate devotion? I but indistinctly recall the fact itself what wonder that I have utterly forgotten the circumstances which originated or attended it?
"'Now, Sire, exclaimed she, 'I hope you will be convinced that my enemies are those whom I have long considered as the most pernicious of Your Majesty's Councillors your own Cabinet Ministers your M. de Calonne! respecting whom I have often given you my opinion, which, unfortunately, has always been attributed to mere female caprice, or as having been biassed by the intrigues of Court favourites!
There was nothing good enough for Micheline. Had the mother owned the world she would have placed it at the little one's feet. One tear from the child upset her. If on one of the most important subjects Madame Desvarennes had said "No," and Micheline came and said "Yes," the hitherto resolute will became subordinate to the caprice of a child. They knew it in the house and acted upon it.
His caprice and violence were unbounded, his cruelty odious, and his ship was designated by the sobriquet of The Hell Afloat.
The others assented, but unwillingly. Miss Oliphant was known to be more full of whims than any one else in the college. Her extraordinary and sudden friendship for Prissie was regarded as her latest caprice. Rosalind Merton was not a particularly good actress, but her face was too pretty not to be called into requisition. She was to take the part of Melissa.
We subject our free judgment to its despotic opinions, our feelings to its bizarre customs, and our will to its seductions. We only maintain our caprice against her holy rights.
Sir Thomas had led Gerald Bereford to believe that the Lady Rosamond had always favoured his suit, but in girlish caprice had refused him any encouragement until the expiration of her visit, when she would return home ready to receive the courtly attentions of her relative. Cheered by these fond assurances, Gerald Bereford did anxiously look forward to Lady Rosamond's return.
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