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"Let them find me a young man who is more lovable than my father; and if Philippus yes you, Philippus were ten or twenty years over nine and twenty, would that make you less clever or kind?" "Not less ugly, at any rate," said the physician. Pulcheria laughed, but with some annoyance, as though she had herself been the object of the remark. "You are not a bit ugly!" she exclaimed.
We have one trouble, and that is in the temper of this newly arrived German boy, but we are going to try and make him lovable. He is a good way off it yet. I must leave John to tell you about the many things I have forgotten, and I will write soon. We have a cat here whom we call Muff, after your old pet. Her name often reminds me of your sacrifice for me.
With her bright face, and her full, speaking eye, and interested especially, no doubt, in the new kind of ministration to which she was listening, she gave me her whole attention, often slightly nodding her assent, unconsciously to herself and unobserved by others. She married Professor John Farrar of Harvard, and able mathematician, and one of the most genial and lovable men that ever lived.
A little smile of pure pleasure flitted across her face; to her there was something lovable and rather charming about the very architectural inconsistencies which prevented Barrow Court from being, in any sense of the word, a show place.
In this lovable mystery we journeyed all the rest of that morning.
"Once, when he peered into an Olympian grove, he saw Io, and took the form of a youth so that he might talk with her. He found her so lovable that he passed many a pleasant hour in her company wandering on the banks of the classic stream that flowed through the wood, and in those hours he was not Jupiter but a boy, a boy very much in love.
But the smile seemed to be set and, furthermore, indicated that the fan-bearer found much mirth in the discomfiture of others. Aside from this undefined atmosphere of heartlessness, it can not be said that there was any craft or wickedness patent on his face, for his features were good and indicative of unusual intelligence. To the unobservant, he seemed to be a lovable, useful, able man.
"If I have your leave, father." The old gentleman stood musing some time, after his son was gone. This was his thought: "He is a good boy, and lovable. Let him take his own course as it would profit nothing to oppose him make things worse, in fact. My arguments and his aunt's persuasions have failed; let us see what America can do for us.
Inwardly Hélène found herself contrasting her father with this man. "If only he had the tenderness, the lovable qualities of this old musician," she thought, "how I could love him!" As he was taking his leave, her eye caught the music on top of the cabinet and in a moment she saw it had been disturbed. She looked quickly at Von Barwig, but he gave no sign that he knew of its existence.
She had lost the confidence of the child by this time, and become humbly doubtful of her own opinion; and instead of summing up "Ruth" boldly, as she would have done the year before, she paused now a moment to reflect before she wrote with diffidence: "The principal impression this book has made upon me is that Mrs. Gaskell must have been a very lovable woman."
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