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I have, perhaps, mistaken the means, and cruel will, I fear, be the penalty of my error. Tell me, my dear friend, was not Colden reconciled to his father before he went? When does he mean to return? What said he, what thought he, of my conduct? Did he call me ungrateful and capricious? Did he vow never to see or think of me more?
"No, no, I am no Brunehild; only a modern woman with nerves the most feminine woman in the world, irresponsible, capricious please, please remember." "If you were not yourself I should not love you." "But it cannot come to anything." "Cannot? The word is for pigmies." "But my mother?" "She is a woman I will talk to her." "My father!" "He is a man, with men one can always get on.
Distinguished by the favour of a prince; destined, he had room to hope, to play a conspicuous part in the revolution which awaited a mighty kingdom; excelling, probably, in mental acquirements, and equalling at least in personal accomplishments, most of the noble and distinguished persons with whom he was now ranked; young, wealthy, and high-born, could he, or ought he, to droop beneath the frown of a capricious beauty?
I knew that her affections were strong and enduring, but that her temperament was capricious, and her sunniest moods easily overcast by some small cloud of jealousy or pique. I had never imagined, however, that she was capable of such intensity as was revealed by these few words of hers. As I say, I felt concerned.
She had known but little of Marcia, and that little had shown her only as a lover of dress and of admiration, besides being capricious to a degree unusual even in a spoiled favorite. A musical soirée was under consideration. Marcia was a proficient upon the harp and piano, and, as she had heard that Mr.
The fierce though exquisite weaver of rhymes, who had been the idol of the nation and the drawing-room, was sought after by the highest and most cultured in the land. Byron had fallen a victim to public displeasure partly because he gave way to excesses that shocked the orthodoxy of a capricious public.
During the eighteen months of tranquil seclusion which followed her marriage, the favourite occupation of the Duchess was visiting and relieving the poor. In January, 1801, the Czar Paul, in compliance with the demand of Napoleon, who was just then the object of his capricious enthusiasm, ordered the French royal family to leave Mittau.
He stopped short, for he was reluctant to admit that she had been justified in her behaviour towards him. "Thanks," she said, with an attempt to laugh. "It is pleasant to find magnanimous people now and then. I do not want you to think that I was capricious. That is all." "I certainly do not think that. You were most consistent. I called three times and always got the same answer."
Did she wish to show him that she was equal to the common surface of living, a comrade to do her part? Or, rather, was the act symbolical, woman serving joyfully where she yields real mastery? The woman, so often capricious and disdainful, was submissive, as if she would say: "This man is my mate. I am forever his. It is my best joy to be through him myself."
Let me think, lest I go mad, that beings from that unseen world for which I hunger have appeared, and held communion with mankind, such as no reason or sense could doubt even though those beings were more capricious and baser than ourselves! Is there, after all, an unseen world? Oh for a sign, a sign!
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