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The efforts that I made to conquer, bend, smooth, extend, spiritualize, color, inflame, or moderate expressions; the wish to render by words the nicest shades of feeling the most ethereal aspirations of thought, the most irresistible impulses, and the most chaste reserve of passion; to express looks, attitudes, sighs, silence, and even the annihilation of the heart adoring the invisible object of its love, all these efforts, I repeat, which seemed to bend my pen beneath my fingers like a rebellious instrument, made me sometimes find the very word, expression, or cry that I required to give a voice to the unutterable.
Of all the women with whom I have had to do the nicest in every way have been the French women. The English women of the town drink too much, and are far too keen on getting as much money as they can for as little as they can, to please me.
The party squeezed itself into the passage again, and Mrs Hawthorne with a flourish of the big key threw open the door and exclaimed: "I declare this museum to be open, and that it is to be henceforth known as the Mary Hawthorne Museum." The evening that followed the opening of the museum was counted by the children as one of the very nicest they had ever had.
She honestly wanted to be friends with Maisie but she was not sure she liked the way it was being brought about. Dolly came back, arm in arm with Maisie. The two boys stood in front of Grace until the girls came up, and then Tad, whisking aside, said, with a low bow: "Miss Maisie May, I want to make you acquainted with Miss Grace Rawlins, the nicest girl in Berwick, except the rest of them."
She wanted to be rich, she wanted luxury, she wanted men at her feet, her slaves, and she had not thanks to some of the novels she had read the nicest discrimination between notoriety and reputation; perhaps she did not know how fatal notoriety usually is to the bloom of womanhood.
But this is her praise, that the graces dwell upon her lips; that her words are attired with the garb of sense and fancy; and that all her conduct is governed by the largest prudence and the nicest discretion. Heard you the sound of merriment and applause? They were the gay and unlaboured sallies of the wit of Imogen that called them forth.
"Nicest old woman as ever was: I say," he added, as if struck by a sudden thought, "how much money have you got?" The Skipper told him, and the man laughed. "More'n I have. Spent some, give the old ooman the rest. On'y got thruppence left. Look here: you and me's shipmets, travellers. S'pose we jyne?" "A ship?" faltered Bob. "No! jyne in a boat. I'll work it: I'm bigger than you.
"Oh, what a dear Stuart was to take so much trouble to get the very nicest things. They couldn't be more suitable." "Eugenia," asked Betty, "have you thought of that other rhyme that brides always consider? You know you should wear "'Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue." "Yes, Eliot insisted on that, too.
There you sit in a Doucet gown, perfection as ever, from the aigrette in your hat to those delicately pointed shoes. You have been positively hunted by all the nicest men once or twice, indeed, I felt myself neglected and not a smile have I seen upon your lips. You go about, looking just a little beyond everything.
That she should please him at all, was something in his favour, for she was a simple, modest girl, with the nicest feeling of the laws of intercourse, the keenest perception both of what is in itself right, and what is becoming in the commonest relation.
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