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It is pleasant to see the mother and grandmother inspecting and commenting on the toilette of the lovely daughter, of whom they are so justly proud, while she is wholly occupied in inquiring about the health of each, or answering their questions relative to that of her children.
Just think, Violet, what it means to step into such a position! I am proud of your conquest." Violet suddenly grew cold and pale as snow. "Belle, you know it can never be," she began, with white lips, when Mrs. Mencke interrupted her angrily. "It can be it must be it shall be; for I have given my unqualified consent to his lordship's proposal," she cried, actually trembling from excitement.
'It's too late, Miss Falkland, I said. 'We're all thankful to you for the way you've spoken. Jim and I would be proud to shed our blood for you any time, or Mr. Falkland either. We'll do what we can, but we'll have to fight it out to the end now, and take our chance of the bullet coming before the rope. Good-night, Miss Falkland, and good luck to you always.
Pilot?" exclaimed the sailing-master, raising a battle- lantern within a foot of the other's face, and looking with a sort of stupid wonder at the proud and angry eye he encountered "Is it you!
That is generally the order in which proud, rebellious sinners are converted. So he comes up out of Jordan and puts on his clothes, and goes back to the prophet. He was very mad with Elisha in the beginning, but when he was cleansed his anger was all gone too. He wants to pay him. That's just the old story; Naaman for his cure. How many people want to do the same nowadays.
Much that you then said rested on my mind, disturbing the prejudices I took from Bretagne." "I am proud to hear it, my kinsman." "You know that I would have taken military service under the Emperor, but for the regulation which would have compelled me to enter the ranks as a private soldier."
She saw him, in fancy, miserable and proud, with his pale face and keen, clever eyes fixed upon her in hatred, as the cause of his unhappiness, and then the idea occurred to her to put on sailor's clothes and go and seek him out in the world.
How strange that that proud, reserved man should have spoken so to me, that he had suffered his heart's bitterness to overflow in words to me, who was almost a stranger: 'They lay the blame of that poor boy's death at my door, as though I would not give my right hand to have him back again. Oh, if Gladys had only heard the tone in which he said this, she must have believed and have been sorry for him.
'Trust Jim for knowin' his little wife, says I, proud like to myself, and I runs round to where I knew as they'd dock her. What with me being that excited that I couldn't rightly see where I was going, and what with the crowd, for the men was comin' from work, I didn't get there till the ship was alongside.
See, here is the statue of the general." "What general?" "General Blaumont! We had to have a statue. We are not 'the proud people of Gisors' for nothing! So we discovered General de Blaumont. Look in this bookseller's window." He drew me towards the bookstore, where about fifteen red, yellow and blue volumes attracted the eye. As I read the titles, I began to laugh idiotically.
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