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She was exquisitely well dressed too, and that, as Felicie observed, goes for much, even with your most sensible men. Altogether he was charmed, whether considering her as with the eyes of an unbiased stranger or with his own. And all he heard confirmed, and, although he would not have allowed it, strengthened his feelings.
She was a woman who loved any cheap defiance of custom, and she had an agreeable sense of adventure in what she proposed. Besides, she felt that nothing could be more in the unconventional spirit in which they meant to make their whole journey than a stroll about New York at half-past six in the morning. "Delightful!" answered Basil, who was always charmed with these small originalities.
When Ronald ceased speaking, he saw her hands were clasped and her lips quivering. "Did you like that?" he asked, with unconscious patronage. "So much!" she replied. "Ah, he must be a great man who wrote those words; and you remember them all." Her simple admiration flattered and charmed him. He recited other verses for her, and the girl listened in a trance of delight.
Plenty were soon ready to take Lord Scatterbrain here, and escort him there, accompany him to exhibitions and other public places, and charmed all the time with his lordship's remarks "they were so original" "quite delightful to meet something so fresh" "how remarkably clever the Irish were!"
So Hilda, the daughter of monarchs, greets Harold the leader of men." Harold looked up from the letter, and Haco resumed: "Thou canst guess not the cheering effect which this banner, supposed to be charmed, and which the name of Odin alone would suffice to make holy, at least with thy fierce Anglo-Danes, hath already produced through the army." "It is well, Haco," said Harold with a smile.
She was about to open the hospitable doors of the great house upon the hill, which seemed to have chosen that pre-eminence that it might the better overlook the morals of its neighbors. Joppa held its breath in charmed suspense.
This brilliant description, while the dean read the work to his family, so charmed poor Henry, that he repeatedly cried out, "I am glad I came to this country." But it so happened that a few days after, Lady Clementina, in order to render the delicacy of her taste admired, could eat of no one dish upon the table, but found fault with them all. The dean at length said to her,
"I should feel honored if the distinguished American Herr would give me a visit," said the stranger gravely, as he gazed at Hoffman with an intensity which recalled the previous scrutiny of the Police Inspector, "and I would be charmed if he would avail himself of my poor skill to transmit his picturesque features to my unique collection."
What a long array of names might be presented of those who have given their testimony to the wondrous fascination of this undying Greek! names of the great and wise through many long centuries, men differing in age, country, religion, language, and occupation. For ages he has charmed youth, instructed manhood, and solaced graybeards. His heroes have become household words throughout the world.
What charmed me most of all was a tiny but fascinating lakelet in the pasture near the house; a "spring-hole" it was called by the natives, but a lakelet it was to me, full of the most entrancing possibilities.
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