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After Betty had had her own cold bath, and had prepared a tepid one for her father, she dressed quickly, and going over to the dressing-table in the large, low-ceilinged room a room which, in spite of the fact that everything in it was old and worn, had yet an air of dainty charm and dignity, for everything in it was what old-fashioned people call "good" she looked dispassionately at herself in the glass.
I haven't seen a great deal of her lately. She's generally scampering round on horseback with Jake. But once or twice with Maud I've seen her look quite demure. She's really getting almost good-looking," he added dispassionately. Saltash flung a swift look downwards. "Don't you approve?" Bunny shrugged his shoulders. "I don't see enough of her to care either way.
The rector had listened to her, at first with amazement, then with more complicated sensations as she thus dispassionately discussed the foremost member of his congregation and the first layman of the diocese, who was incidentally her own father. In her masterly analysis of Eldon Parr, she had brought Hodder face to face with the naked truth, and compelled him to recognize it.
He made the statement dispassionately, as though laying down a subject for academic discussion. It was some little time before she could think what to say. "Well, that doesn't surprise me," she risked at last. "Doesn't surprise you?" She shook her head. "On the contrary, I should be very much astonished if she did now.
The charge startled me seriously when it was broached, but I have been trying to consider dispassionately whether the injury likely to be worked will be greater than that consequent upon a continuous fare of mushrooms with rich gray gravy and flirtation.
"Recover, then, your peace," cried Delvile with much emotion, "for I here acquit you of all promise! to fetter, to compel you, were too inhuman to afford me any happiness. Yet hear me, dispassionately hear me, and deliberate a moment before you resolve upon my exile.
I tell you, I say it calmly, coldly, dispassionately, not from the imagination, not even from the heart, but solely from the reason, that I can bear everything rather than the loss of you; and that if the evil of my love scathe and destroy you, I shall consider and curse myself as your murderer! Save me from this extreme of misery, my yes, my Isabel!
Things are made to arouse our passion, so long as meanness and villainy prevail; and if old men, knowing the balance of the world, can contemplate them all "dispassionately," more clearly than any thing else, to my mind, that proves the beauty of being young.
And thus observing and listening to her, I could now dispassionately perceive such differences in our natures as seemed to justify Trevanion's assertion, which once struck me as so monstrous, "that we should not have been happy had fate permitted our union."
"You can use the reward, I guess." "Good God, I don't want that kind of money!" Van exclaimed. "Who got you, Matt who got you?" "Sheriff," said the convict dispassionately. "Good man, Christler and a pretty good shot but I got away with his lead." He slumped again, like a waxen thing on melting props, deprived of all support. Van plunged out to the water bench, with its bucket, near the door.
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