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"I begged she would take the most favorable view of her prospects, and at the same time not feel embarrassed. "'But tell me, sir, she resumed, with a look of great earnestness, 'did you come on business for my first husband, Mr. Primrose?
If his ideas ran out as quickly as this his prospects were small indeed; and when the postman brought back two of his manuscripts, with printed slips conveying the editor's thanks and regrets, he began to curse his own folly in ever coming home. That evening, the craving for companionship he had felt in the hotel the night he landed came back to him again.
And the memory of their early love brought thoughts of their present situation and their future prospects. To these the conversation always reverted, and evening after evening Pierre witnessed their delight, and heard them talk of coming happiness like lovers transported to the seventh heaven. The suit for the dissolution of Benedetta's marriage was now assuming a more and more favourable aspect.
When it comes to ear-rings, there's no telling what they wouldn't have done." "Two of your guests are in jail, with good prospects of their remaining there. The others, I learn, were thieves from out of town; I doubt if we shall capture them." "For goodness' sake, let them run. I never want to see them again. That ugly creature who went up with Alice for the money you caught him? I am so glad.
When we went ashore, the two friends stopped to observe the beauty of the architecture of my house, and to admire its advantageous situation for prospects, which were neither too much limited nor too extensive, but such as made it very agreeable. I then conducted them into all the apartments, and shewed them the out-houses and conveniences; with all which they were very well pleased
I was silent all this time. My blame was indeed turned inward. Sometimes, too, I was half-frighted at his audaciousness: at others, had the less inclination to interrupt him, being excessively fatigued, and my spirits sunk to nothing, with a view even of the best prospects with such a man. This gave his opportunity to proceed: and that he did; assuming a still more serious air.
Only a few months before the Stella's fatal trip, a lady passenger assured Mrs. Rogers that her bright, cheery sympathy had done much to make her trip pleasant. 'Well, you see, ma'am, Mrs. Rogers replied, 'I don't believe in going about with a sad face, and it is such a pleasure when one can help others. At this time Mrs. Rogers' prospects were very bright.
Ferrars's heart, and that she wishes for nothing so much as to be on good terms with her children." This paragraph was of some importance to the prospects and conduct of Edward. It determined him to attempt a reconciliation, though not exactly in the manner pointed out by their brother and sister.
With the return of his senses he had just begun to realize by what a narrow margin the assassin's bullet had missed destroying his future client and prospects. A growing murmur across the street attracted their attention. Then as they continued to chat of the event, the sheriff reappeared, directing half a dozen men who laid a burden in the light of Martinez' doorway.
"However agreeable you find them, Miss Eve, they fall infinitely short of the truth. The tie of wedlock, besides being the most sacred, is also the dearest; and happy, indeed, are they who enter into the solemn engagement with such cheerful prospects as ourselves.
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