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There were no rhododendrons at Willingham; and the children thought them the loveliest, gayest things they had ever seen. But at last twelve o'clock came. Nurse tidied the children, gave them some biscuits and milk, and then sent them to the drawing-room to find father and mother. Only Mrs.
Play on thy mother's bosom, babe, for in that holy isle The error cannot find thee yet, the grieving, nor the guile; Held in thy mother's arms above life's dark and troubled wave, Thou lookest with thy fearless smile upon the floating grave. Play, loveliest innocence!
'Not one kiss to-day? she murmured, her voice like the dying of a flute. And she raised to him a face lit from the inmost sanctuary of love. 'You are as beautiful, he said, 'as any woman of whom fable ever told. Your beauty frightens me. It is sometimes more than human as though the loveliest Greek goddess suddenly found breath and colour and the light of eyes.
It's the loveliest place in the world, papa!" He smiled a small, satisfied smile, and stooping stroked his Demon. Malcolm went down the riverside, not over pleased with the marquis; for, although unconscious of it as such, he had a strong feeling of personal dignity. As he threaded the tortuous ways of the Seaton towards his own door, he met sounds of mingled abuse and apology.
"I wouldn't marry you," cried Polly stormily, "if you could give me all the gold in the world; and as for family," here she sat quite erect with shining eyes, "the Peppers have always been the loveliest people that ever lived the very loveliest oh" she broke off suddenly, starting forward "there's something on the road; see, Mr. Bayley!"
"See the forehead, the mouth, and tell me you read failure there! But your present is what is doubtful, and that I can certainly take care of." "But " I protested, with a sensation of warmth in my cheeks. The loveliest smile stopped me before I could utter a word more. "As you would take care of mine," she completed, "if our positions were reversed."
The Greek dress was the loveliest dress the world has ever seen, and the English dress of the last century one of the most monstrous; yet we cannot costume a play by Sheridan as we would costume a play by Sophokles.
Ardent he said, and kissed her eyes and face, And lingering held her in a fond embrace. When the bright sun his radiant brow displayed, And earth in all its loveliest hues arrayed, The Champion rose to leave his spouse's side, The warm affections of his weeping bride.
From the divinity-student came the loveliest English edition of "Keble's Christian Tear." I opened it, when it came, to the Fourth Sunday in Lent, and read that angelic poem, sweeter than anything I can remember since Xavier's "My God, I love thee."
Is it I have often wondered so difficult as people think, to be happy in an hour "spent waiting at a railway junction"?... The kingdom of happiness is within us; or else there is no truth in our assumption that the will of man is free: and I am inclined to pity a man who, being happy in Amalfi the loveliest of all the places I have ever seen cannot also manage to be happy in Pyrgos or in Essex Junction and to communicate his happiness to his responsive fellow-travelers.
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