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His head was bent down, he had his hands in his pockets, and he was whistling. After a while I heard him murmur: "Poor woman!" "Is it Mademoiselle Stangerson you are pitying?" "Yes; she's a noble woman and worthy of being pitied! a woman of a great, a very great character I imagine I imagine." "You know her then?" "Not at all. I have never seen her."
She was always beautiful and radiant, and as she passed she would turn her head over her shoulders and look at the three mud-bespattered pedestrians with a smile of pitying condescension, which made Peggy set her teeth and draw her eyebrows together in an ominous frown. One day she condescended to stop and speak a few words from her throne among the cushions. "How de do?
Lucy Passmore, do you know that fellow also?" "No, sir," said Lucy. "Lucky for you, Fray Gerundio," said Will Cary; while the good friar hid his face in his hands, and burst into tears. Lucky it was for him, indeed; for he had been a pitying spectator of the tragedy.
Most of them thought that Jones had got the chilly mitt. Eleanor looked pale and undecided, not knowing what to make of Jones' death's-head face. She was resentful and pitying in turns, and I saw all the material lying around for a first-class conflagration. Freddy was a bit down on me, too, saying that a smoother method would have ironed out Jones, and that I had been headlong and silly.
Now and then old Helios, the driver of the sun car, would look down upon him and smile; now and then flocks of birds would bring him messages from far-off lands; once the ocean nymphs came and sang wonderful songs in his hearing; and oftentimes men looked up to him with pitying eyes, and cried out against the tyrant who had placed him there.
Repress the wish, yet thou mayst hear She shed for thee a pitying tear, For thine are paths of gloom." She also says that she had been for six weeks engaged, with the assistance of a gentleman, in working out proofs of the immortality of the soul, apart from those in Scripture.
She raised her eyes to the solemn, pitying, awe-stricken face behind her father's the countenance of Dixon. "Is he dead?" she asked of him. The man stepped forwards, respectfully pushing his master on one side as he did so. He bent down over the corpse, and looked, and listened and then reaching a candle off the table, he signed Mr. Wilkins to close the door. And Mr.
"If I had a friend in this countryside he would be pitying my shame that I must be bargained for like beast at a fair and not have a word in the bargain." "My name's what my name may be," said he, putting out an arm and addressing the world, "and you are my master's daughter; I would cut off that hand to save you a minute's vexation.
There was his mother, probably trying to restrain her voice, for it came up now just loud enough to make it most distressing to try to catch the words, which sounded like something pitying.
Yes but for all this change of manners it was certain that he had himself heard comments made on the impulsive unconventionality of Miss Langley. The comments were sometimes generous, sympathetic, and perhaps a little pitying and of course they were sometimes ill-natured and spiteful. But, whatever their tone, they were all tuned to the one key that Miss Langley was impulsively unconventional.
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