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"My, but I'm glad," she hummed to herself as she scrambled into her best dress and flew out of the door into the warm autumn sunshine. "I thought she wouldn't let me go, and then I couldn't get the money. Oh, I am so glad, so glad!" "Where are you going?" demanded a grieved voice, as Allee came through the barn door and caught a glimpse of her sister's best skirts under the flying coat.
I had not been mistaken in my childish notions of the loftiness and generosity of my father's character. He was what I had thought him. Neither was I a whit wrong in my judgment of the things which it grieved me that he did and allowed. But I saw afterwards how he, and others, had grown up and been educated in a system and atmosphere of falsehood, till he failed to perceive that it was false.
Tell me, are you really pained that I have had the accident you prophesied?" She glanced from her grandson to the telescope that pointed toward the stars and back again. "I am, indeed, sincerely grieved," the Prophet answered with genuine emotion. "Yes. But if I'd jumped out all right, and was sittin' here now in a perfect condition of health, you'd have been sincerely grieved, too."
He grieved for Bruno, and would willingly risk his life in hopes of doing the young man a service, yet his gaze was drawn far more frequently towards yonder temple, on the top of which he had surely he HAD caught sight of his wife, his daughter! "Let me down and try to find him," he eagerly begged, as one might plead for a great boon.
She was shocked and grieved to discover that this young lady from the metropolis was in a state of ignorance with regard to such subjects that would have surprised her in any cottage child among the poor she was accustomed to visit in the neighbourhood.
You remember Michael, the other brother? He seems to have taken cold that evening, or perhaps over-exerted himself. He has been seized with quick consumption. He will hardly last till snow flies." "Oh, I am GRIEVED to hear that!" Theron spoke with tremulous earnestness. It seemed to him as if Michael were in some way related to him. "It is very hard upon them all," the priest went on.
"I mean the young khawâjah who resides here all alone," Iskender explained, replying to the negro, though his eyes kept looking from Daûd to Selîm, whose perfect impassivity surprised him. He grieved for the loss of his umbrella, which would have compelled more respect. "Ah," grinned the negro, seeing light. "He is at breakfast." "Then with permission, I will wait till he comes forth."
Washington Allston wrote to him: I have learned the disposition of the pictures. I had hoped to find your name among the commissioned artists, but I was grieved to find that all my efforts in your behalf have proved fruitless. I know what your disappointment must have been at this result, and most sincerely do I sympathize with you.
The missionary paused amidst his slices of cold chicken and ham, and thus addressed him: "My friend, I am greatly distressed for you, but that helps you nothing. I have been through the same fiery trial; and I not only believed, but wished I might not survive the ordeal. I would not eat nor sleep, but grieved incessantly. It was so sudden, so unforeseen.
Mikolai still harped on this, and it was this disappointment that grieved him most of all. Why did Martin not care for Rosa? As they were returning home together in the early twilight, Mikolai once more took courage. He was certainly not going to offer Rosa again to Becker he felt too sorry for her to do that but he wanted to hear why his beautiful plan could not be realized.
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