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I'm quite accustomed to the scornful way in which you have received all my words lately. I need not tell you what I have heard at all, unless you wish to hear it." "But, of course, I wish to hear it, Rosie; you know that as well as I do. Now sit down and make yourself at home; there's a dear." Rose allowed herself to be mollified.
The chief seemed sulky and not disposed to argue, but the young boy at his side spoke to him rapidly for a time, and for some reason he seemed mollified. Rob pressed the advantage. Drawing a piece of worn paper from his inner coat-pocket, he made signs of writing with a stub of pencil which he found in another pocket. "You see talk-talk paper?" he went on.
The Misses Leaf ay, even Selina, whose irritation against the provoking boy was quite mollified by the elegant young man were no wiser than their neighbors. But there was one person in the household who still obstinately refused to bow the knee to Ascott.
After all, you danced so elegantly that I must be mollified. There is the young Prince Zophyrus, son of Datis the general,—he has only five wives already. True, he is usually the worse for wine, is not handsome, and killed one of his women not long since because she did not sing to please him. Yes—you shall have Zophyrus—he will surely rule you—”
Spence because of any flaws in the disposition of his wife. I tried therefore to dismiss the matter from the conversation as soon as possible; and before the end of the evening her mood was so far mollified that she introduced the subject of the Honorable Ernest's arrival.
You chase aroun' fer Lizzie, an' if de goil ain't got no udder date, yet kin meet us here 'bout moondown, an' we'll bring yer a brace er frawgs. So long, Mame! Remember dat I loves yer!" With a partly mollified sniff, the lady retired to her gate-post, and the two adventurers went on.
His great talent for silence served him well, and though I told him afterwards that he had not done Hippo justice for she honestly wanted an opening for being useful he was not mollified. "I don't like tongue," was all he further said of her. But whatever Hippo was, or whatever she did, I shall always be grateful to her for that photograph. All this time Dermot Tracy had been from home.
I thought of it last Sunday, when you had on that new gown, that becomes you so well." "Which one?" said Aunt Dilsey, a little mollified, "the blue and yaller one?" "The same," answered Rondeau. "It fits you good. Your arm looks real small in it."
Resolve would only grow by opposition, but there was more of pain in announcing an independent course than he had foreseen. 'What are your practical proposals? his father inquired, his mollified tone the result of observing that he had made a certain impression, for he was distinctly one of the men who are to be overcome by yielding.
The King appeared to be somewhat mollified by this declaration, and now gave me permission to return to my own apartments. Soon afterwards he received letters from my brother, containing assurances of his attachment, in the terms I had before expressed.
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