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But there was something in her pensive, sorrowful look that affected Philip more than any vehement emotion could have done. The thought of all her devotion their long friendship her womanly ways came upon him overwhelmingly. But another thought checked it Helena! and his promise to her dead mother. If he now made Cynthia the mistress of Beechmark, Helena would never return to it.
At the shrine by the placid Avon, which the centuries have invested with their pensive and resistless charm, and over which genius has cast its enchanting spell, an impassable gulf seems fixed between the Shakespeare of Stratford and the Shakespeare of London. They appear like two entirely different and almost irreconcilable personalities.
The American Puritans inherited the disposition from their early confessors, and so powerful was the tendency that it laid its sombre spirit upon the earliest enduring poem in our literature, and the fresh and smiling nature of the new world was first depicted by our literary art as a tomb: "The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty; and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man."
Sombre-eyed she sat, staring into vacancy. "Indeed, ye may say so," Pitt agreed. "He's taking risks that few would take in his place. But that's always been his way." He went out, leaving his lordship pensive, those dreamy blue eyes of his intently studying Miss Bishop's face for all their dreaminess; his mind increasingly uneasy. At length Miss Bishop looked at him, and spoke.
Mahiette shook her head with a pensive air. "The singular point is," observed Oudarde, "that la sachette has the same idea about the Egyptian woman." "What is la sachette?" asked Mahiette. "He!" said Oudarde, "Sister Gudule." "And who is Sister Gudule?" persisted Mahiette. "You are certainly ignorant of all but your Reims, not to know that!" replied Oudarde. "'Tis the recluse of the Rat-Hole."
Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a muse; simplicity, a child: With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the age: Above temptation, in a low estate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great: A safe companion and an easy friend, Unbiased through life, lamented in thy end, These are thy honours! not that here thy bust Is mixed with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms Here lies GAY.
The mother and son, after sitting silent and pensive during the evening, retired early to bed. On the next day, urged on by his anxious desire to get the situation of which he had heard, Hiram again called at the counting room of Mr. Easy, his heart trembling with hope and fear. There were two or three men present. Mr. Easy cast upon him rather an impatient look as he entered.
The orphans, after reading the journal of their father, remained for some moments silent, sad, and pensive, contemplating the leaves yellowed by time. Dagobert, also plunged in a reverie, thought of his wife and son, from whom he had been so long separated, and hoped soon to see again. The soldier was the first to break the silence, which had lasted for several minutes.
"But your presence honors him sufficiently," concluded the gallant Alcalde. Then turning to Father Salví: "Father Curate, I notice that you have been silent and pensive all day long." "It is my nature," muttered the Franciscan. "I would rather listen than talk." "Your Reverence seeks always to gain and never to lose," replied the alferez, in a joking manner.
A pair of long, blue legs, ending in very neat pumps, hung from the veranda roof among the vines; and roses, gathered by unseen hands, evidently appertaining to aforesaid legs, were being dropped into the laps of several girls perched like a flock of white birds on the railing below; while a manly voice 'fell like a falling star', as it sung this pensive ditty to a most appreciative audience: MARY'S DREAM
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