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At all events I entreat your majesty to believe in my sincere desire to reëstablish amicable relations with so friendly a power as Prussia, and that I wish to do the same with Russia and England."
It was all very well to say that Lady Maulevrier loved a country life, that she had made Fellside her earthly Paradise, and had no desire beyond it.
'Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks.
Collingwood realized that this was not the complaint of the well-to-do young woman who finds time hang heavy it was rather indicative of a desire for action. "I understand!" he said. "I think I should feel like that. One wants I suppose is it action, movement, what is it?" "Better call it occupation that's a plain term," she answered.
When they retired, she revolved all the conversation in her mind; she saw clearly that virtue and knowledge were the only passports to happiness; and the remembrance of her mother's desire to teach her various things, which she had either shunned from idleness, or rejected with insolence and ill-humour, rose to her mind; and the unhappy indulgence of her father appeared to her in far different colours to what she had ever beheld it.
No, by God, he was no coward to run away with his wife for fear of any man. And would it be fair to her to take her away possibly from where her desire lay? True, he did not know where her desire lay, nor how far it had gone between her and Graham. Might it not be a spring madness with her that would vanish with the spring?
"What brought you to Russia?" he demanded, but in a tone that was not unkind. "The desire to obtain an interview with you," I replied, remembering his caution for me to ignore his rank. "For what purpose?" "To enter your service." "In what capacity?" "In any capacity for which I seem most fitted." His majesty smiled broadly as if my replies suited the humor he was in.
Jackson fervently grasping the plodding ankles before her, and a hysteric desire to laugh, with the fear that he might see it on her face, overcame her. Then she wondered if he was going to walk all the way home without speaking, yet she knew she would be more embarrassed if he began to talk to her. Suddenly he stopped, and she bumped up against him. "Oh, excuse me!" she stammered hurriedly.
So far from complaining of these Hanoverian Boards, and First Lords, it seems to me that they have always kept in view the hollowness of their claims to the throne, and have felt a desire to purchase honest men by their favours." "You are the strangest fellow, Dick Bluewater, it has ever been my lot to fall in with! D e me, if I believe you know always, when you are ill treated.
The fault, I think, is in an over-developed theatrical sense, the desire which so many clever men have for individual notoriety. We Democrats have prospered because we have been free from it. We have been able to sink our individual prejudices in our cause. That is because our cause has been great enough.
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