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"It is not every man that is waited on by a baroness." "The trouble with Christine is that she is too grateful," put in the old doctor. "Now I should say that was scarcely possible in view of " commenced the professor, innocently. "I really hope Miss Ludolph will do nothing more from gratitude," interrupted Dennis, in a low tone that showed decided annoyance. The doctor and Mrs.
These bounds are the point which it is difficult for the drunken man himself to find out; and there it is that the experience of a friend may not only serve, but save him. Carry with you, and welcome, into company all the gaiety and spirits, but as little of the giddiness, of youth as you can. The former will charm; but the latter will often, though innocently, implacably offend.
It was hard to associate any thought of violence and of devastation with the blessed sunset calm and the clean fragrance of this land of misty mountains and quiet pasture so innocently aloof from the strife and passion of a dusty, noisy and struggling world.
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. Another feature is the slurring of the point. A third is the dropping of a studied remark apparently without knowing it, as if one where thinking aloud. The fourth and last is the pause.
"What do you mean by that?" "Mean?" asked McHale innocently. "Why, I was tellin' you about a show I seen. What's wrong with that?" "You called me a horse thief!" cried Cross. "Who? Me?" said McHale. "Why, no, Mr. Cross, you ain't no hoss thief. I know different. If anybody says you are, you just send him right along to me. No, sir; I know you ain't. There's two good reasons against it."
I shall describe my conduct toward the two men who courted me in the plainest terms, if I say that I distinguished neither of them. Innocently and stupidly I encouraged them both. In books, women are generally represented as knowing their own minds in matters which relate to love and marriage. This is not my experience of myself.
"How do you do, Captain?" "Louder. I'm afraid the captain can't hear you yet," grinned the carroty-topped submarine boy. "He's over on the gunboat." "Then who are you?" "Who? Me?" demanded Eph, innocently. "Oh, I'm only the Secretary of the Navy." "All right, Mr. Secretary," laughed the same young man. "We are coming aboard." "Aboard of what?" inquired Eph.
She told her majesty that a constant and sincere repentance had induced her to contrive all possible means for retiring from court: that this reason had inclined her to receive the Duke of Richmond's addresses, who had courted her a long time; but since this courtship had caused his disgrace, and had likewise raised a vast noise and disturbance, which perhaps might be turned to the prejudice of her reputation, she conjured her Majesty to take her under her protection, and endeavour to obtain the king's permission for her to retire into a convent, to remove at once all those vexations and troubles her presence had innocently occasioned at court.
"Oh, father," murmured Ellen, but she looked innocently at her father as if she delighted in his pride and pleasure without a personal consideration. The front door opened. "That's your mother," said Andrew. Fanny looked into the lighted parlor, and dodged back with a little giggle. Ellen colored painfully. "It is Mr. Lloyd, mother," she said. Then Fanny came forward and shook hands with Robert.
There were not many pretty girls on the platform this morning, though he remarked one rather pleasing young person who sat idly on a pile of luggage and fixed large, speculative, innocently assured eyes upon him when he went by, while near her her mother and a tawny sister disputed bitterly with a porter. Most of the ladies who hastened to and fro seemed, while very energetic, also very jaded.
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