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And our visits " "I don't think I care to be the heroine of your story, Mr. Bartley." "You really mean it?" Dorothy nodded thoughtfully. Bartley knew, intuitively, that she was sincere that she was not angling for flattery. He had thought that he was rather paying her a compliment in making her the heroine of his first Western book; or, at least, that she would take it as a compliment.
But she did not long indulge her grief she remembered that at any moment she might have need of all her coolness and fortitude and making a mighty effort, like the brave heroine that she was, she regained control over herself, and drove back the gushing tears to await a more fitting season.
Then Colonel Keith and I carried in the basket, and Angus brought it out. Ephraim came to us after we left the prison, and brought me back here." "Ephraim Hebblethwaite helped you to do that?" I did not understand Hatty's tone. She was astonished, undoubtedly so, but she was something else too, and what that was I could not tell. My Aunt Kezia listened silently. "Why, Cary, you are a heroine!
We have had an outbreak in literature culminating in the giddy glory of the "hill-top novel," with its heroine "who did," and in America what is tautologically described as the "Free-Love Society" was founded to propagate the truth of what Rousseau euphemistically describes as mariage après la nature.
But you can understand, can't you; here where it's so beautiful that even a married woman who has, of course, left love far behind her in Europe must feel some faint yearning to be the heroine of a romance?" Princess di Sereno wondered why she had ever been nice to Theo in Rome.
"And do you think he'll answer at once?" he asked. "Yes, papa is always very prompt and decided; never keeps one long in suspense." Mr. Carrington met our heroine at the dinner-table with such a bright, glad smile, and treated her in so kind and fatherly a manner that she felt sure he knew all, and was much pleased with the prospect before them.
The nails had easily let go their hold of the old boards, and a stone had served our heroine for a useful shipwright's hammer, but the young cattle had strayed through these broken barriers and might have done great damage if they had been discovered a little later, having quickly hied themselves to a piece of carefully cultivated land.
"Of that too, as well as of Culloden Muir." The last of these battles was then a recent event, it having actually been fought within the recollection of our heroine, whose notions of it, however, were so confused that she scarcely appreciated the effect her allusion might produce on her companion.
I dreamed of her, I built air castles for her, she was the incarnation of each beautiful heroine I knew; when I played the piano, it was to her, not even music furnished an adequate outlet for my passion; I bought a new note-book and, to sing her praises, made my first and last attempts at poetry.
Grainger became an obsession with our heroine; yet it cannot be denied that, since Honora's arrival at Quicksands, this lady had, in increasing degrees, been the subject of her speculations. The threads of Mrs. Grainger's influence were so ramified, indeed, as to be found in Mrs. Dallam, who declared she was the rudest woman in New York and yet had copied her brougham; in Mr.
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