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G.J., I know you think I behaved very childishly yesterday, and that I deserved to be ill to-day for what I did yesterday. And I admit you're a saint for not saying so. But I wasn't really childish, and I haven't really been ill to-day. I've only been in a devil of a dilemma. I wanted to tell you something. I telegraphed for you so that I could tell you.
You collect Sèvres china with or without a pedigree, and she coughed dryly; 'I collect promising young women. On the whole, I think my hobby is more beneficial to you than yours is profitable to me. Mr. Wynnstay was furious. Only a week before he had been childishly, shamefully taken in by a Jew curiosity dealer from Vienna, to his wife's huge amusement.
Are you not confident, dear Athenian?” “I am confident in the justice of the gods, noble Simonides,” said the athlete, half childishly, half in deep seriousness. “Well you may be. The gods are usually ‘just’ to such as you. It’s we graybeards that Tyche, ‘Lady Fortune,’ grows tired of helping.”
With these enactments too came evidence of the Kirk's paternity. "We are," said Master Gordon, sharpening a pen in a pause ere the MacNicolls came forward, "the fathers and guardians of this parish people high and low. Too long has Loch Finne side been ruled childishly. I have no complaint about its civil rule his lordship here might well be trusted to that; but its religion was a thing of rags.
There were certain little blue violets which always seemed to lift their small faces childishly, as if they were saying, 'Kiss me; don't go by like that." She would sit on the porch, elbows on knees and chin on hands, staring upward, sometimes lying on the grass. Heaven was so high and yet she was a part of it and was something even among the stars.
"You're very vain," Joy told him, laughing at him in spite of herself. "I am, indeed it's one of my charms," explained he. "Now that's out of the way, we'll go on talking." "Well, go on talking!" Joy answered him childishly, putting her hands over her ears. "I can go on not listening!"
I want an excuse to myself for writing my own life; an excuse for the indulgence of going it all over again, as I have so often gone over bits. It has not been more remarkable than thousands of others. Yet every life has in it a thread of present truth and possible glory. Let me follow out the truth to the glory. The first bright years of my childhood I will pass. They were childishly bright.
She played her trump card valiantly, "You can give it back to me if you can't get them, I have another person who can attend to Certain Legal Matters for me " Her voice trailed faintly, she was really rather frightened. "May I ask whom?" the lawyer demanded in amazement. "I know where he is," she asserted childishly. "He is in Temple Bar, Brooklyn, and he would get them for me quickly, I'm sure.
She was childishly pleased at everything she saw whilst accompanying the admiral around the decks, twitching at his arm incessantly that she might indulge her curiosity as to hatchways, stoke-hole gratings, and so on; clapping her hands continually in the exuberance of her joy. The "Modeste" accompanied us in our trip to the north on this occasion.
And holding out his one hand, he inclosed her two clasped ones within it, as the little voice ran over an utterly unintelligible form of childishly clipped Latin, sounding, however, sweet and birdlike from the very liberties the little memory had taken in twisting its mellifluous words into a rhythm of her own.
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