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I don't think it odd that I should look careworn. I have enough to make me so! And yet if I were with you now, brightened up by being with you, you would say, "How well he looks!" And you would think I had any amount of work in me, as you saw me riding or walking or holding services.
"No!" exclaimed the careworn listener, in one smile from his hat to his handsome boots. He would have said more, but the story-teller lifted a finger to intimate that the bayonet was not the main point there was better laughing ahead. "Handsome little chap he was brave eyes sweet mouth. Thinks I right there, 'This's going to be somebody some day. He reminded me of my own son at home.
It was indecent in the circumstances, that's what it was, that anybody, with the remotest justification for the epithet, could call him careworn. Once Robin on an afternoon when the House was not sitting called for his cousin and carried her off in a hansom without saying where he was taking her to. That was something of which the General heartily approved.
'Are you talking madness, Mary? I should live for the moment to compensate for all. 'You would waste your best years, and when the time came, you would still be young, and I grown into an old careworn woman. You would find you had waited for what was nothing worth! 'How can you talk so! cried Louis, wounded, 'when you know that to cherish and make up to you would be my dearest, fondest wish!
Let us survey the anxious and careworn countenances, let us hear the firm-toned voices, of this band of patriots. HANCOCK presides over the solemn sitting; and one of those not yet prepared to pronounce for absolute independence is on the floor, and is urging his reasons for dissenting from the Declaration. "Let us pause! This step, once taken, cannot be retraced.
Under the light in the little drawing-room, he noticed that she looked pale and careworn, and her limpid, childlike eyes were veiled pathetically with deep, blue shadows. As he looked at her, however, a warm tint dyed her cheeks and her head drooped, while the little smile still lingered about her lips.
He looked grimmer and more careworn than ever, and did not even smile as he greeted me. He only said gravely that it was good of me to let him come over. I offered him refreshment, which he declined. "You may be wondering," said he, "why I have asked for this interview. But after all I have told you about myself, it did not seem right to leave you in ignorance of certain things.
On a dais at the extremity of the room was an oaken chair of quaint device, in which sat a proud-looking man, pale and careworn as though weary of so much state and ceremony. "My child," said the prince, "Do you feel like playing for me? I am too weak to go to the cathedral, and I fancy if I can hear you play I shall feel better." Franz was a timid boy, but he loved to please.
M'Bean, as the J. P.'s ladies, commiserating her half-drowned plight, sent her that same evening a goodly bundle of cast-off clothes, over which her eyes grew gleefully bright in her careworn face. At one of the articles included they widened with almost awe. This was an enormous hat made of white fluffy felt, with vast contorted brims, and great blue velvet rosettes and streamers.
He was very short, not taller than Rosalie; he was so humpbacked, that he seemed to have no neck at all; and he had a very old and wizened and careworn face. It was hard to tell whether he was a man or a boy, he was so small in stature, and yet so sunken and shrivelled in appearance. 'Jinx, said the woman as he entered, 'here's a young lady come to your performance.
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