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I envied those officers, such as John Mathieson, whose duties took them often out of doors, and gave them the control and management of men. My chief was as kind and considerate as ever, and I confided to him the thoughts that disturbed me. Warm-heartedly he sympathised with my feelings. He himself had gone, he said, through the same experience some twenty years before.
When she had grown an old woman the young girls still envied her beauty, and wondered what it must have been in its first bloom. Small wonder that Jim fell in love with her; it was inevitable. He first saw her, after her return, on a bright June morning as he was strolling down the path from his grandfather's house to the street.
'I do not wonder, exclaimed Houarn, who now felt quite at home 'I do not wonder that the people on the earth have so much to say about you. 'The rich are always envied. 'For myself, he added, with a laugh, 'I only ask for the half of your wealth. 'You can have it, if you will, Houarn, answered the fairy. 'What do you mean? cried he.
"Well," said Julian, with a smile on his lip and a tear in his eye, "I never envied any man as I envy him!" With those words he left the room. HAVING warmed his feet to his own entire satisfaction, Horace turned round from the fireplace, and discovered that he and Lady Janet were alone. "Can I see Grace?" he asked.
These, he said, were the only conditions on which a just and lasting peace could be made. He allowed them a space of thirty days for deliberation, and on the departure of the ambassadors immediately drew off his forces. XXXI. This affair gave an opportunity to several of the Volscians, who had long envied and disliked his reputation, and the influence which he had with the people.
Of course, by this cool and ingenious method they obtained the names of all, their ages, and other interesting information, and moreover they did it all with such suavity, and conducted themselves with such gentlemanly deportment, that, from that day they were invited, happy, envied, and regular visitors at the forbidden house."
"Yes; he was coming home as soon as his little girl was born, but then his wife died and he joined an exploring expedition, and has been rambling about the world ever since, with no bother of anything. How nice it must be to have plenty of money!" And Laura's sigh is in good earnest. "You are right there," adds Eugene, who is smoking out on the balcony. "Floyd, old chap, is to be envied.
She looked round for a little upon the great library, full of all the books that had ever been written, and where people were doing their work, examining and reading and making extracts, every one with looks of so much interest, that she almost envied them though it was a generous delight in seeing people so happy in their occupation, and a desire to associate herself somehow in it, rather than any grudging of their satisfaction that was in her mind.
He had finished gouging out a cob, and now he fitted a weed stem to it, loaded it with tobacco, and was pressing a coal to the charge and blowing a cloud of fragrant smoke he was in the full bloom of luxurious contentment. The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly. Presently Huck said: "What does pirates have to do?"
And the student admired, he even envied those two brave men who, for the sake of love, had not shrunk before the solemnity of a moment in which the death-dealing wound coincides with the knife-thrust which carries a man off to the penitentiary. As they left the tavern, Pascual took unceremonious leave of his companion. "I'm going to leave you," said he, "because no one can have any fun with you.
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