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Little by little he had been obliged to give up his various duties about the place; finally he was obliged to take to his bed. He lay in his room, devotedly attended by Jennie and visited constantly by Vesta, and occasionally by Lester.
The two elder were now grown up; that is, they were respectively eighteen and seventeen years old. They were devotedly attached to their mother, looked on her as the only perfect woman in existence, and would willingly do nothing that could vex her; but they perhaps were not quite so systematically obedient to her as children should be to their only surviving parent. Mrs.
Ha, Frank! you are a handsome fellow, and your expectations are great why don't you marry some woman with money?" "Pooh!" exclaimed Frank, colouring. "You know, Randal, that there is but one woman in the world I can ever think of; and I love her so devotedly, that, though I was as gay as most men before, I really feel as if the rest of her sex had lost every charm.
From that time the valet had been devotedly attached to me. The outfit having been all left behind at Landsberg, he had started all out of his own head on the day of battle to bring provisions to his master. He had placed these in a very light waggon which could go everywhere, and contained the articles which the marshal most frequently required.
I consider my daughter crazy, but I've got into the habit of indulging her; that's why I'm here. I suppose you're fond of your son." "Devotedly." "Well?" "It rests with him." He had a sense of being met and baffled. Always always she had baffled him, even in those old first married days. "It's a mad notion," he said. "It is."
Both became eminent in after life, though, curiously enough, neither in the law nor in the ministry. But we shall have occasion to treat more specifically of this later on. The three brothers were devotedly attached to each other to the very end of their long lives, and were mutually helpful as their lives now diverged and now came together again.
His heart was aching with his own trouble, and with the consciousness of her loss Angela's loss all the suffering that Richard's death would inflict upon these two women who had loved him so devotedly. He yearned for one little word of comfort and affection, which even in that terrible moment, a mother should have known so well how to give. But he lay at that mother's feet in vain.
'These are gentlemen, dearest Kate, said Nina, holding out the card. 'Come now, do tell me that I may say you will be happy to see them? 'If you must have it so if you really insist 'I do! I do! cried she, half wildly. 'I should go distracted if you denied me. O Kate! I must own it. It will out. I do cling devotedly, terribly, to that old life of the past.
I have noticed, when he travels, that the face of the newsboy brightens as he buys a paper from him, that the porter is all happiness, that conductor and brakeman are devotedly anxious to be of aid. Everywhere the man wins love. He loves humanity and humanity responds to the love.
The man doesn't live who trusts you more implicitly, who believes in you more devotedly, than I do." His eyes, his voice, his manner, all told her that those words came from the heart. Not only had she wronged Grace Roseberry she had wronged Julian Gray. Could she deceive him as she had deceived the others? Could she meanly accept that implicit trust, that devoted belief?
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