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I have such a treasure of an old nurse poor old Tamar who tells me stories, and reads to me, and listens to my follies and temper, and sometimes says very wise things, too; and the good vicar comes often this is one of his days with his beautiful little boy, and talks so well, and answers my follies and explains all my perplexities, and is really a great help and comfort.
Moreover, he was of a reserved nature, not apt to discuss what was once fixed, and perhaps it showed that he respected her judgment not to try to shake her decision. Though for once love had carried him away, he might perhaps be grateful to her for sparing him the perplexities of dragging her about with him and of giving additional offence to his parents.
"Yes," he said, "you are certainly right, and I bless the goodness that sent you hither; but when you are gone, I doubt that I shall fall back into my old perplexities, and say to myself that though men may see different parts of the same thing, they cannot see the same thing differently."
"According to what I hear from Germany, the situation which was offered me there is still open; only I cannot enter upon it before the spring. This makes my journey thither very doubtful, and throws me back into fresh perplexities. I am also advised to go through a year of free study in Paris, during which time I should be able to reflect upon my future career, and also take my university degrees.
He saw it at this one moment, and it struck a light to light him in many subsequent perplexities; it was something he had never seen before.
My perplexities were increased by the belief that he would not have intervened in a matter of small moment; hence the conviction grew upon me that while I stood idle before the hearth, the greatest interests might be at stake. "Michel," I said at last, addressing the doyen of my secretaries, who chanced to be a Provençal "have you ever seen a boxwood fire?"
In addition to the foregoing remarks re the insufficiency of the dynamometer as an instrument for indicating the presence of a cable on the grapnel, I might remind engineers of the troubles and perplexities which occur incessantly in dragging over a rocky bottom.
Their perplexities were suddenly removed by Reuben himself, who awoke while they were consulting, and asked his friend Jacob who watched at his side with the tenderness of a brother where Loo had gone to. "She's here, Reuben, waitin' to get married," replied his friend. The hunter roused himself, looked hastily round, raised himself one one elbow, and said in a strong voice, "Come, I'm ready now.
Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.
I Purchase a Handsome Carriage, and Proceed to Parma With the Old Captain and the Young Frenchwoman I Pay a Visit to Javotte, and Present Her With a Beautiful Pair of Gold Bracelets My Perplexities Respecting My Lovely Travelling Companion A Monologue Conversation with the Captain Tete- a-Tete with Henriette