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And suddenly, in its depths, I heard a chirrup and the whir of startled wings. "Nothing was dead, but everything had changed to beauty! And I stood for a time with clean and happy eyes looking at the intricate delicacy before me and marvelling how richly God has made his worlds...."
"We might have known it," she said, "Mary Bartley is a young lady incapable of misconduct; she is prudence, virtue, delicacy, and purity in person; the man she was with at that place was sure to be her husband, and who should that be but Walter, whom she loved?" Then the servants looked anxiously at their master to see how he took this startling revelation.
Elton's way before and no degree of vanity can prevent her acknowledging her own comparative littleness in action, if not in consciousness." "I know how highly you think of Jane Fairfax," said Emma. Little Henry was in her thoughts, and a mixture of alarm and delicacy made her irresolute what else to say. "Yes," he replied, "any body may know how highly I think of her."
Lady Grebe blurted out what Sir John and Barbara had thought, but had had too much delicacy to express.
If she knew that in Paris when she was far away he had deceived her! But she never would know anything of it, for Amedee has too much delicacy to hurt the memory of the dead, and he respects and even admires this fidelity of illusion and love in Maria. He suffers from it. The one to whom he has given his name, his heart, and his life, is inconsolable, and he must be resigned to it.
"She bore evidence of the shock and loss she had sustained; aside from that she was quite as she has always been." "Well, what do you want to see Hicks for? What do you expect to learn from him?" "I don't like his insistence on the idea that Miss Malroy is mentally unbalanced. It's a question of some delicacy the law, sir, fully recognizes that.
Next morning Albert Styvens asked Maurice to show him the portrait of Esperance. He gazed at it a long time in silent admiration. He could gaze his fill at a portrait without outraging the conventions. "What marvellous delicacy! Oh! the blue of the eyes! The mother of pearl of the temples!" He sat down, quivering with emotion, and looked frankly at Maurice.
He dare not even bring his work before his own eyes, but keeps it behind him, as if too much knowledge of what one is doing would spoil the delicacy and modesty of one's work. Almost all graceful and fanciful work is born like a dream, that comes noiselessly, and tarries silently, and goes as a bubble bursts. And yet somewhere work must come in, real, well-considered work.
I said that we were not sure of that by any means. Indeed, sometimes it had seemed to me Oh Mabel, how wild you look. I did not say a thing to wound your delicacy. There is not a lady in the land who might not be proud of any preference James Harrington can give. I only thought that General Harrington was mistaken.
I can even readily conceive that, from delicacy, she has abstained from entering into many details, the remembrance of which she was anxious to lose, and which, known, could but add to the pain I feel.
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