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The woman she was protested on behalf of the girl, while the girl in her heart bent lowered sad eyelids to the woman; and which of them was wiser of the truth she could not have said, for she was honestly not aware of the truth, but she knew she was divided in halves, with one half pitying the other, one rebuking: and all because of the incongruous comparison of a wild flower to an opera dancer!
They are more than words that you have spoken. They have in them a substance and a life. But, Fanny, dear child!" he said, turning to his still grieving daughter "your tears distress me. They pain more deeply than rebuking sentences. My folly" "Father!" exclaimed Fanny "it is I not you that must bear reproach. A word might have saved all. Weak, erring child that I was!
Farnham fell back in his chair, his hand dropped heavily upon the table, he strove to disclaim the guilt so mournfully imputed to him, but his eyes fell, and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. The strong man was dumb in the presence of that rebuking child. "I must go now," said Joseph, moving backward, "Mrs. Chester is lost, and we must find her."
We talked of my health, he rebuking me for my rashness in coming out so soon, I protesting that I was plenty well enough and feeling better for my outing. There we stood an hour or more, very uncomfortable, Tanno making conversation to keep me cheerful. I needed his companionship and the atmosphere he diffused.
I'm sorry he couldn't stay to tea, for he's real amusing when he once gets started. He'd have made you screech with laughter." Miss Briskett looked down her nose, in her most dignified and rebuking fashion.
"Owning neither the East nor the West Indies," she said, "we are unable to supply the constant demands upon us; and although we have the reputation of being a good housewife, it does not follow that we can be a housewife for all the world." She was persistently warning the king of an attack upon Dieppe, and rebuking him for occupying himself with petty enterprises to the neglect of vital points.
Granvelle was, however, most resolute in carrying out the intentions of his master. We have seen how vigorously he had already set himself to the inauguration of the new bishoprics, despite of opposition and obloquy. He was now encouraging or rebuking the inquisitors in their "pious office" throughout all the provinces. Notwithstanding his exertions, however, heresy continued to spread.
Mirah felt that she had committed an offense against Mrs. Meyrick by angrily rebuking Hans, and mixed with the rest of her suffering was the sense that she had shown something like a proud ingratitude, an unbecoming assertion of superiority. And her friend had divined this compunction. Meanwhile Hans had seized his wide-awake, and was ready to open the door.
"He didn't." "I should think it would git you," snapped back the Girl, both in her look and voice rebuking him for his words. It was left to Ashby to spring another surprise. "We've got his horse," he said pointedly. "An' I never knowed one o' these men to separate from his horse," commented Sonora, still smarting under the Girl's reprimand. "Right you are!
Procrastinating and indolent himself, he was for ever rebuking the torpid movements of the Guises. "Let Mucio set his game well at the outset," said he; "let him lay the axe to the root of the tree, for to be wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening the knife for himself." This was almost prophetic.
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