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He found her at tea upon the veranda with her aunt and uncle and while he made conversation with the Pendletons he gave Miss Jeffries the note. "From our friend Ryder," he said with forced lightness. "It explains itself." But it certainly did not.
They were often most amusing, and one liked to hear them chatter and see the airy lightness with which they took superfluous, and sometimes unsuperfluous, conventions, as a hunter takes a five-barred gate. But it never occurred to us to marry them. We did not take them seriously enough. But we began to marry them we began to marry them, my good fellow!"
The lightness with which she touched life, the unexplored depths of her, guessed at but never fathomed! Did she feel a little the need of me as I felt the need of her? "Why, I believe you're incurably romantic, Hugh," she said laughingly, when the men had left the room. "Here you are, what they call a paragon of success, a future senator, Ambassador to England.
Do you remember that hole in Ada's stocking?" "Yes, but I " "Never mind. The fib wasn't nearly as big as the hole. But how could you expect me to help noticing the general lightness and frivolity of your visitors, shown up so plainly against the background of your own character?" "Y-es. I didn't think of that"
Chopin derived no money from either of his concerts. By this time he was accustomed to being reminded of the lightness and exquisite delicacy of his touch and the originality of his style. It elated him to be no longer mistaken for a pupil and he writes home that "my manner of playing pleases the ladies so very much."
Rupert Holliday was as active as a cat, and was ever on the move, constantly shifting his ground, advancing and retreating with astonishing lightness and activity. At first he was too eager, and his instructor touched him twice over his guard.
I don't seem to be able to have any fun without getting into trouble. I don't know what to think. It's all so black. I wish I was dead." Her dreary tone put the deepest pathos into her words. Howard had seen despondency in youth before had felt it himself. But there had always been a certain lightness in it.
Should my tongue be unloosed by greed or lightness, should I be puffed up by vanity, then my familiar spirit that being by whom I know that which I know would withdraw his inspiration from my breath. My knowledge would depart from me, and the words I speak would be no weightier than the idle words on every gossip's lips. Let the future take care of itself. Consider rather the concerns of to-day.
She had a great lightness of heart; she was glad she had left Mrs. Banks, glad she was in her father's home, and learning from Susan that the ladies rested in their own rooms after luncheon, she decided to go out and look on the scenes of her father's youth.
As he turned into the Rathbawnes' gateway, he could have laughed aloud for very lightness of heart. His optimism was not even impaired by running, in the hall, full against Mrs. Rathbawne. "Good gracious! Lieutenant-Governor, is that you?" Repeated and earnest endeavor on Barclay's part had never dissuaded her from this form of address.
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