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Was he a small man, weak in the eyes, with a want of hair, and speaks very quiet when he is most to be feared?" "The same," the squire answered. "But I marvel how you should know how he speaks when he is in wrath, for he is very gentle-minded with those who are beneath him." "Praise to the saints! it was not I who angered him," said the fat Michel. "Who, then?"
"Is there no other royal one whom she might take, Prince?" "None. Moreover she wishes me alone." "Why, Prince?" "Because of ancient custom which she worships. Also because she knows me well and in her fashion is fond of me, whom she believes to be a gentle-minded dreamer that she can rule.
Whichever way he turned he saw the world in a kind of panic, all the old and gentle-minded nations with their fair fields, their factories and art galleries, all hard at work piling up explosives around themselves until they could hardly see over them.
There had been no serious marmitage, and he had spotted a Boche position which was marmitable. "And we may get shelled now," he added, hopefully. "They shell this town whenever they think of it. Perhaps they'll shell us at tea." It was a quaintly beautiful little place, with its mixture of French and German ideas; its old bridge and gentle-minded river, between the cultivated hills.
The June lilies, yellow and sweet, lighted their soft lamps beside the cross I was sixteen, and I read Aurora Leigh. A grown person may smile but, no; no gentle-minded man or woman smiles at the dream of a girl.
But to return home without wife to accompany him or child to meet him, to sit by his riches like a man over a fire of straws in a Siberian frost; to know that old faces were gone and old hearts changed, that the pattern of things in the heavens had melted away from the face of the earth, that the chill evenings of autumn were settling down into longer and longer nights, and that no hope lay any more beyond the mountains surely this was enough to make a gentle-minded man sad, even if the individual sorrows of his history had gathered into gold and purple in the west.
She turned out to be a quiet gentle-minded woman, who raised no disturbances amongst the servants, and soon won her brother's regard by the modest and retiring style of her manners; I may add, also, by the truly sisterly affection which she displayed towards him to the last. The 8th of October had grievously affected Kant's faculties, but had not wholly destroyed them.
His compact bands of armed men not only cleared the Via Sacra and the Forum, but also, disregarding the commands of their more gentle-minded leader, exercised horrible atrocities against the assembled multitude. The Forum swam with blood on this "Octavius' day," as it never did before or afterwards the number of corpses was estimated at ten thousand.
This was in the second week of July; on the 1st of September, news was brought to London that the Duke of York had suddenly landed from Ireland. His partizans eagerly gathered round him at his castle of Fotheringay, but for five years longer, by the repeated concessions of the gentle-minded Henry, and the interposition of powerful mediators, the actual war of the roses was postponed.
She looks at me with such sad eyes, sometimes, that it goes to my very heart. She cannot bear to have me out of her sight. Can she doubt me in any thing? No; I will not believe that. She is a loving, gentle-minded creature and one of the best of wives. Ah me! I wish I were more like her." Still Wilkinson remained standing, and in debate with himself.
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