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So you see, everybody learned to love her when they found out what a beautiful soul she had; and while Rosalie was pining and fretting herself sick because her beauty was fading, and her admirers were dropping off one by one, to flatter prettier faces, Hetty went quietly on her way, winning hearts and keeping them, too. How many of my little readers have seen the Crystal Palace, in New-York?
So Eleanor, saying she couldn't understand why he was so awfully economical now that he had his own money! came alone, full of remorse at deserting him, and worry because of his loneliness, and leaving a pining Bingo behind her. But, to her silent annoyance, as soon as she arrived at Green Hill she encountered a new and tiresome attentiveness from Edith! Edith was inescapably polite.
"Nay, doubtless," he said, "if we but knew the truth, I dare say that the old heathen man, pining in some dark room in hell, is glad enough that his treasure should be richly spent by a good Christian gentleman." They walked together to the place; and the old gentleman talked very learnedly and showed him where the gates and towers of the fort had been adding to Walter, "And if I were you, Mr.
Helen's, who would be only too glad to have a story against the Benedictines. A ride over the Kentish downs was the only cure for her or for Anne, who had been pining ever since they had been mewed up here, though, looking across at the girl, whose head was leaning against the bars, Sir Giles seemed to have brought a remedy to judge by those cheeks.
Sweet and beautiful! the fairest and the most spotless! is it not pity to see them bowed down or devoured by Grief or Death inexorable wasting in disease pining with long pain or cut off by sudden fate in their prime?
Can you deny that the world wants it? What are you economists and sociologists of the new type always pining for? Why, for that diminution of the self in man which is to enable the individual to see the world's ends clearly, and to care not only for his own but for his neighbor's interest, which is to make the rich devote themselves to the poor, and the poor bear with the rich.
If you talk of spending your money on anyone but yourself, I shall think that you are pining for independence again, and we may as well pack up our things and get home." "Oh dear, what have I said? I did not mean it, my dearest friend my best friend in the world! I won't say anything like it again: but I must go out and spend some money, or I shall not believe in my good fortune.
But what if we, the unscientific people, say: "You are perishing in vice, you are dying of hunger, you are pining away, and killing each other; so do not grieve about this; when you shall have all perished, and hundreds of thousands more like you, then, possibly, science may be able to arrange everything in an excellent manner."
"Now do come and have this one wi' me," he said caressively. "It's easy, you know. I'm pining to see you dance." She had told him before she could not dance. She glanced at his humility and smiled. Her smile was very beautiful. It moved the man so that he forgot everything. "No, I won't dance," she said softly. Her words came clean and ringing.
"Be calm, be calm for you have suffered, wandered through the dark abyss truly you have been chastened enough in this world. But while your heart is only bruised and sore, mine is stung deep and lacerated. The image of that child now rises up before me. I see her looking back over her chequered life, and pining to know her birthright.
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