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She had always tried to stifle this fondness and break off his associations with the harbor fishermen, who liked to lure the high-spirited boy out with them on fishing expeditions. But her power over him was gone now. After Chester's departure she was restless and miserable, wandering from window to window to scan the dour, unsmiling sky.
From excess of love arises that weakness; that must be its apology with thee, for, in thy mind, my fondness, I know, needs an apology. Shall I scold you a little? I have held in the rein a long time, but my overflowing heart must have relief, and I shall find a sort of comfort in chiding you. Let me chide you, then, for coldness, for insensibility: but no; I will not.
It knew him and revered him as the master-mind of the ages; and it loved him for himself, for his quizzical short-sighted eyes and the inimitable way in which he screwed up his face when he laughed; it loved him for his simplicity and comradeship and warm humanness, and for his fondness for salted pecans and his aversion to cats.
She had come to love of the dark land with the warm lifting wind, the big trees and the hedges, and the stately houses, and people requiring to be studied, who mean well and are warm somewhere below, as chimneypots are, though they are so stiff. English people dislike endearments, she had found. It might be that her husband disliked any show of fondness. He would have to be studied very much.
Taste for literature pure and simple, and disinterested love of historical search, are the rarest things among the self-taught; naturally so, seeing how seldom they come of anything but academical tillage of the right soil. The average man of education is fond of literature because the environment of his growth has made such fondness a second nature.
"Honour, reputation, success: all that are ever won by a soft tongue, if it be backed by a bold heart." Bright and keen was the flash which shot over the countenance of the one for whom this prediction was made, as he listened to it with a fondness for which his reason rebuked him.
It was not, however, that Lady Honoria had conceived any regard for Cecilia; on the contrary, had she been told she should see her no more, she would have heard it with the same composure as if she had been told she should meet with her daily: she had no motive for pursuing her but that she had nothing else to do, and no fondness for her society but, what resulted from aversion to solitude.
If I didn't have you to back me up, and give me strength I'd but it can't last long. I know it can't. And I don't know that it's worth trying." "You are still fond of him, Lucy?" "And sorry for him, Oh, so sorry. But fondness and sorrow aren't everything." "It will be better when he has the new contract to occupy him, and keep him away. It won't be an all-day affair then.
The Minister of War, who at the time was Greatauk, Duke of Skull, could not endure him. He blamed him for his zeal, his hooked nose, his vanity, his fondness for study, his thick lips, and his exemplary conduct. Every time the author of any misdeed was looked for, Greatauk used to say: "It must be Pyrot!" One morning General Panther, the Chief of the Staff, informed Greatauk of a serious matter.
She seemed accustomed to not being introduced. Paul grumbled, "Campbell Inn, on the South Side." "Alone?" It sounded insinuating. "Yes! Unfortunately!" Furiously Paul turned toward the woman, smiling with a fondness sickening to Babbitt. "May! Want to introduce you. Mrs. Arnold, this is my old-acquaintance, George Babbitt."
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