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Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.
"To have so kind-hearted, so affectionate a sister," replied Henry warmly, "must be a comfort to him under any distress." "I have one favour to beg," said Catherine, shortly afterwards, in an agitated manner, "that, if your brother should be coming here, you will give me notice of it, that I may go away." "Our brother! Frederick!"
PALAI, surprised to see this mortal visitor, enquired of his daughter, "Who is this man, and why does he come here?" "It is the man I wish to wed," replied the girl. The kind-hearted father told her to give her lover food, and consented to the realisation of her hopes. So LAFAANG took up his abode in the house of PALAI and was wedded to his daughter.
And I must say I never saw more kind-hearted people than these men and women were to us all the way, on this long and dangerous journey. We had no more trouble with the Indians until we had crossed Green river. We were now in the Ute country. At this time the Utes were considered to be one of the most hostile tribes in the West.
If you have any regard for me, give my message to Coursegol. You will do a good deed for which you shall be rewarded." She left the kind-hearted jailer without another word, and hastened back to the cell where Antoinette was awaiting her.
Curwen speaks of booksellers as being "singularly thrifty, able, industrious, and persevering in some few cases singularly venturesome, liberal, and kind-hearted." My own observation and experience have taught me that as a class booksellers are exceptionally intelligent, ranking with printers in respect to the variety and extent of their learning.
How do they?" "Pretty they are indeed, my dear," replied the kind-hearted Captain, pleased to have the question asked, as was evident, "and very wonderful. How they managed to grow is more than I can tell, and is just as astonishing to me as to yourselves.
They make your company a bore to all your friends; and some kind-hearted creature will take advantage of them and trot you, for the amusement of the company. A certain degree of reserve, or the appearance of it, should be maintained in your intercourse with your most intimate friends.
She was good, charitable, but lacked unction, and she had no sympathy with the illusions of others. A German poet, in making his New-Year offerings, wishes that the rich may be kind-hearted, that the poor may have bread, that the ladies may have pretty dresses, that the men may have patience, that the foolish may get a little reason, and that sensible people may grow poetic.
The noise reached the ears of two young ladies riding near the place daughters of the gentleman on whose property I was a trespasser. They were too well brought up to lift their voices against the sacred right of preserving game, but they were kind-hearted girls, and they pitied me, and took me home with them.
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