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A benignant sorrow made his voice in perfect temper with the pensive striving of this latest day of spring. At the close of his address he said: "I owe you much, my people. I owe him more, for it was given him, who knew not God, to teach us how to know Him better. For his past, it is not given you to know. It is hidden in the bosom of the Church.
When the ass had eaten his macaroon, I press'd him to come in the poor beast was heavy loaded his legs seem'd to tremble under him he hung rather backwards, and as I pull'd at his halter, it broke short in my hand he look'd up pensive in my face 'Don't thrash me with it but if you will, you may' If I do, said I, I'll be d....d.
Merry faces were at each side of the table; Walter, grown up into a tall noble-looking youth of two-and-twenty, particularly courteous and gracious in demeanour, and most affectionate to his mother; Charles, a gentle sedate boy of fifteen, so much given to books and gravity, that his sisters called him their little scholar; Rose, with the same sweet thoughtful face, active step, and helpful hand, that she had always possessed, but very pale, and more pensive and grave than became a time of rejoicing, as if the cares and toils of her youth had taken away her light heart, and had given her a soft subdued melancholy that was always the same.
Where the devil did these idiots of shepherds get the tale that Virgil related in such noble verse to Augustus and Mecaenas?" He remained pensive an instant, his eyes bent upon the azure depths, then turning to Sir John: "They say that, no matter how vigorous the swimmer, none has ever returned from this abyss. Perhaps were I to try it, my lord, it might be surer than M. de Barjols' bullet.
Beneath the delicious shade you wandered over beds of moss, undeformed with barren sands and intrusive weeds, and smooth as the level face of ocean when all the winds of heaven sleep. Nor was this all. Accordingly your path was here beguiled with the warbling of a thousand birds, the full-toned blackbird, the mellow thrush, and the pensive nightingale.
The Son of the Bard stood silent by the cart, looking away down the road with a pensive look on his long, narrow face. "Pay me the one-and-six to put into the hands of my brother," the woman said. Festus Clasby's mind was brought back at once to his pocket. "No," he said, "but this man can give you my money to pay into the hand of your brother."
Barbara was pensive. "I think mine must be worse than yours; I don't want it cu-ured." "Well, I didn't mean cured, either; I only meant solaced." "But, Mr. March, I why, my home-sickness is for all Dixie. I always knew I loved it, but I never knew how much till now." "Miss Garnet!" softly exclaimed John with such a serious brightness of pure fellowship that Barbara dropped her gaze to her book.
And then, as he was himself about to go forward, barely in time to check the word of greeting on his lips, Joe lifted pensive eyes to the other's back. When Joe spoke his words were none too plain; he was gnawing a pencil tip in most evident perplexity. "Say," he broke that heavy silence, "say, Garry, how do you spell reconciliation?"
Nothing could be more docile than the pensive lower lip, and the meek curve of the neck; nothing could be more contradictory than the light of its eye; a brooding, baleful fire, quietly biding its time. "Scatter, friends!" cried Red, as he put his foot in the stirrup. "Don't be too proud to take to timber!" He swung over as lightly as a trapeze performer, deftly catching his other stirrup.
As for Bressant, originally the least inclined of any of the circle to be pensive and sombre, he now seemed occasionally to contend with shadows of some kind.
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