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"If the girls are in bed, let me go down and search for something, the poor child looks so forlorn." As he pleaded with his mother the hall light lay full upon him, and never did benevolence look more beautiful on a young face. It must have been a cold-hearted person, indeed, who could have resisted those fine, earnest eyes, and that manner so full of generous grace.
Sitting alone, waiting for the morrow, to face Hugh Fraser once more, Alixe Delavigne recalled, with a vow of vengeance, that sad past, the slow breaking of the butterfly, the revelation of all Hugh Fraser's cold-hearted tyranny, the sway of his demoniac jealousy jealous, even, of a sister's innocent love.
I think you must come from Venus, or one of the asteroids; or it may be from Sirius. From the beginning you knew you were not like ordinary people." "Alexis," she drawled, "you are boring me." "Capital!" said Sarakoff. "Now we will descend to facts, as our friend here did. You are the most inordinately vain, ambitious, cold-hearted woman in Europe, Leonora. You value yourself before everything.
She never acted upon the nation with that degrading influence which is always the attendant of selfish, cold-hearted, and perfidious tyranny; she never had the power, and we doubt if she ever had the wish, to make slaves of her people.
I must confess that I had not expected to see such a sight. It made my heart ache. I was seized with a fury and longed to be able to rush upon the enemy, drive him back across the frontier, and restore the dwellings forsaken by these poor folks. What human being, however cold-hearted, could help feeling deep pity at the sight of those poor, weak and inoffensive creatures fleeing before invasion?
Arabin had not done something to prevent that other he, that vile he whom he so thoroughly despised, from carrying off this sweet prize. Whatever man may have reached the age of forty unmarried without knowing something of such feelings must have been very successful or else very cold-hearted. Mr.
He longed to annihilate the high-handed, cold-hearted, ungrateful creature who could humble him so outrageously after he had allowed her to see that his heart was hers, and who could make him quail a man whose courage had been proved a hundred times. He had to exercise his utmost self-control not to forget that she was a woman. What had happened?
She was 'an ill-favoured, overgrown thing'; 'just as bonny as the first rose i' June, and as sweet i' her nature as t' honeysuckle a-climbing round it; she was 'a vixen, with a tongue sharp enough to make yer very heart bleed; she was 'just a bit o' sunshine wheriver she went; she was sulky, lively, witty, silent, affectionate, or cold-hearted, according to the person who spoke about her.
Her precepts were not the maxims of cold-hearted prudence, but the result of her own experience in strong and romantic feeling.
"Oh, how cold-hearted and wise you are!" said she. "But such a humiliating position for him!" "Don't you be silly. You won't keep him any other way." "I will be as wise as I can," sighed Ina. "I have had a bitter lesson. Only bring him to me, and then, who knows? I am a change: my love may revive his, and none of these pitiable precautions may be needed. They would lower us both."
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