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It was like being shown a precipice and realizing that at an appointed time one must walk straight over its verge. Mrs. Moss, who had loved her brilliant, impulsive little stepdaughter like her own child, had given her up unwillingly.
He fought the inclination furiously. It was too ridiculous weak, sentimental, to be so sensitive to kindness. But he was so tired, so lonely, so disappointed. He touched Ma Snow's ginger-colored hair caressingly with his finger tips and the impulsive, boyish action made for Bruce a loyal friend. In the office, Mr. Dill was noticeably abstracted.
In the midst of a speculative community in flush times, he appeared to be cold, dilatory, and over cautions, but he saw more clearly and further into the future of a business than younger and more impulsive minds, who had less experience in its revulsions. For a number of years previous to his death Mr. Otis was largely interested in the banking business of the city.
But it can only be achieved in its perfection by the complete surrender of heart and mind to a third term, transcending alike the impulsive and the rational. The life of the Spirit in its supreme authority, and its identification with the highest interests of the race, does this: harnessing man's fiery energies to the service of the Light.
Impulsive folly I can overlook, but stubborn obstinacy never! My son... there was a catch in his breath... 'Mihail Semyonitch has promised to marry you? Hasn't he? Answer me! Has he promised, eh? I answered, of course, nothing. Semyon Matveitch was almost flying into fury again. 'I take your silence as a sign of assent, he went on, after a brief pause.
'I beg your pardon. The voice was addressing her in a respectful undertone. 'I had no choice. I did not feel justified in saying I knew you. 'You were quite right, she replied coldly, her fingers now relaxed upon the fan. 'Mrs. Strangeways is a little impulsive; she gave me no opportunity of preventing the introduction. 'Will you let me say, Mrs.
Rose said that she supposed she should be able to offer Martie a cigarette. "It would be my first," Martie said, smiling, and Rose, giving her shoulders a quick little impulsive squeeze, said brightly: "Good for you! New York hasn't spoiled YOU!". When at eleven o'clock Martie went upstairs for her wraps, Rose came, too, and they had a word in private, in the pretty bedroom.
By no means very white, still less red, but somewhat embrowned as by the sun, such as you may see in girls reared in southern climes, and in her perhaps betokening an impulsive character which had not accustomed itself, when at sport in the open air, to the thraldom of gloves, very impulsive people even in cold climates seldom do.
'You would not be advised, a gentleman beside her said after a delicate pause to let her impulsive naturalism of utterance fly by unwounded. 'And aren't you the same and worse? And not liking it either, I fear, Sir! she replied, for despite a manful smile his complexion was tell- tale. 'But there 's no harm in salt.
Thomas Manners Button's peculiar penchant was for salads; and in a moment of impulsive kindness he gave Lady Morgan the recipe for his favorite salad a compound of rare merit and mysterious properties.
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