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My sister had been with us about three days, during which I had informed her of all that had taken place, when, one evening, finding myself alone with her, I candidly stated to her what were O'Brien's feelings towards her, and pleaded his cause with all the earnestness in my power.
It seemed to me that Godfrey was making a rather pitiful exhibition of his physical feebleness. "You ought to do things with dumb bells," I said. "The muscles of your arms are evidently quite soft." Godfrey took no notice of the taunt. He was in a state of tremendous moral earnestness. "I want your permission to open these cases," he said. "I won't give you any such permission," I said.
I could not, for the life of me, keep that strange tone out of my voice. Silas Foster, obtuse as were his sensibilities, seemed to feel the ghastly earnestness that was conveyed in it as well as Hollingsworth did. He immediately withdrew his head, and I heard him yawning, muttering to his wife, and again yawning heavily, while he hurried on his clothes.
No less time indeed could have sufficed to bring him into closer relation with this affair, and nothing at first could have been more marked than the earnestness of his care not to show impatience of appeals that were, for a person of his old friend's general style, simple recognitions and decencies. There was a limit to the mere allusiveness with which, in Mr.
It was not only the testimony of one most competent to speak, but it was the profound religious experience of one who had broken out of the charmed circle, and whose intense earnestness melted all opposition. The converts she made needed no after-training.
His features were strongly marked, though not irregular, and their expression was extreme earnestness; resolute either for good or evil, a sort of latent stern enthusiasm. At the time of which I write, the good predominated over the bad in the countenance, and he was one from whom a stranger would have asked a favour with tolerable faith that it would be granted.
Quite independently of any bias which a person may feel towards this or that shade of opinion upon debated questions, it may be asserted with perfect confidence that the Church of that period would decidedly have gained by an increase of life and earnestness in any one section of its members. A colourless indifferentism was the pest of the age.
"He did not expect to be gone over a single day, when he left?" "No, sir. But business has detained him. Will you not walk in, Mr. Willet?" The earnestness with which he was looking into her face was disconcerting Fanny. So she stepped toward the door, and led the way into the house. "Mr. Willet," said Fanny, introducing her visitor, as they entered the sitting-room. Mrs.
Then he looked, with a certain thinly-veiled bluntness of enquiry, past the Marquis to his companion. "You were very kind to give me the appointment," said Lord Chaldon, with a little purring gloss of affability upon the earnestness of his tone. "I wish very much to introduce to you my friend, my old friend I may say, Monsieur Alexandre Fromentin.
Do you really?" she asked, with deep earnestness "I do, I do. Dora mine, I am crazy for you," I replied. "Now I know what real love means." She sighed, and after a pause her grave, strained mien broke into a smile "So all you told me about Matilda was a lie, was it?" she said, roguishly. "There is no such person in the world, is there?" "Don't talk about her, pray. You don't understand me.
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