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She turned aside from me, and hid her face with a wild gesture of despair that was really terrible to see. I tried, honestly tried, to comfort her. "Of one thing at least you may be sure." I said. "Fritz's whole heart is given to your daughter. He will be true to her, and worthy of her, through all trials." "I don't doubt it," she answered sadly, "I have nothing to say against my girl's choice.
You are willing to take care of him; and I honestly believe that we may safely trust him with you." A serious difficulty being thus disposed of, Valentine found leisure to pay some attention to minor things. Among other questions which he now asked, was one relating to the Hair Bracelet, and to the manner in which Matthew had become possessed of it.
"Disappointed, shocked, and irritated at a rejection so wholly unexpected, he insisted on knowing the cause. Was it his person? Was it his fortune? Was it his understanding to which she objected? She honestly assured him it was neither. His rank and fortune were above her expectations. To his natural advantages there could be no reasonable objection.
'Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. The unabashed impudence of such an excuse for idleness as this is but putting into vivid and impressive form this truth, that then a man's actions in their true character, and the ugly motives that underlie them, and which he did not always honestly confess to himself, will be clear before him.
And yet more I have observed which I cannot find room for in a chronicle of so many sad and bad and warlike happenings. So my advice to the young man who honestly goes a-courting is to keep talking earnestly, to occupy his mistress's attention withal, and progress in her favors during the abstractions of high discourse.
Renaldo honestly owned, that, exclusive of other reasons, he could not deny himself the luxurious enjoyment of communicating happiness to his fellow-creatures in distress; and each fervently prayed, that their charity might not be disappointed by the death of the object.
They found the two small leather trunks, thickly belabelled, in the room upstairs. Both were locked. "I don't see how you're going to identify 'em without seein' 'em," said Peter dubiously. Barnes looked at him sternly. "Peter, be good enough to remember that you are working for a man of the most highly developed powers of divination. Do you get that?" "No, sir," said Peter honestly; "I don't."
And as he thought this, he solemnly vowed that he would honestly strive to prove worthy of the trust; that he would be to Lucy's lover a brother ay, more than a brother; that he would nurse and tend him, restore to him his reason if God willed it, and, in any case, watch over and protect him at the cost of his own life even, if need were until he could restore him to the arms of the woman who was impatiently awaiting at home his safe return.
Thank God, I've at last come across a man with a brain that isn't atrophied for want of use. I love talking for talking's sake good talk don't you?" "I cannot say that I do," replied Andrew honestly, "I have never thought of it. "But you must, my dear Lackaday. You have no idea how it stimulates your intellect.
He was no dunce, that Mervyn, nor much of a coxcomb, and certainly no clown, Devereux thought; but as fine a gentleman, to speak honestly, and as handsome, as well dressed, and as pleasant to listen to, with that sweet low voice and piquant smile, as any.
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