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I have a character, I hope. People are pleased to speak well of me, I think. My person and manner are not absolutely those of a monster, I trust. Ah! naughty Hand! said Mr Pecksniff, apostrophizing the reluctant prize, 'why did you take me prisoner? Go, go! He slapped the hand to punish it; but relenting, folded it in his waistcoat to comfort it again.
"I would do anything I could, you know," she said eagerly, "because it is so awfully kind of you, and I do so want to be able to paint. What can I do?" "What can you do?" he asked, and brought his face a little nearer to the pretty flushed freckled face under the shabby hat. Her eyes met his. He felt a quick relenting, and drew back. "Well, for one thing you could let me paint your portrait."
"I have been thinking," she said, "whether you would like me to call on Mrs. Harley this evening with you?" "What for?" he demanded, suspiciously. "Well, I don't know. I thought it might be appropriate." Maxwell thought a moment. "I don't think it would be expected. After all, it isn't a personal thing," he said, with a relenting in his defiance. "No," said Louise.
Half measures were impossible; a swarm of Messalina's accomplices in vice were put to death. To her, Claudius showed signs of relenting; but Narcissus gave the orders for her death without his knowledge. When they told Claudius that she was dead, he displayed no emotion, but went on with his dinner, and apparently forgot the whole matter.
Still she could not get over the mystery which surrounded the lives of these two personages, whom fate, relenting at last, had placed in her way. What was the mystery in the past of this brother and sister? For there was one; and, so far from trying to conceal it, they had begged Henrietta not to inquire into it. And how was their past connected with her own past?
Now I well knew that this man was a most accomplished villain, and an hour before I should have no more thought of sparing or making terms with him than with a speckled snake. Yet no sooner did he thus begin to wheedle me, than I found my just anger and hatred against him insensibly desert me. "Why do you hold this language to me?" I said, as sullen as I could, so as to hide my secret relenting.
She was in the car before he could offer to help her. "Thank you again," she said. "If only you will let me arrange it with the Wallinghams," he faltered. "I will think about it." She smiled. He felt that she was slipping away. "Give me some clue," he begged. "Where is your spirit of romance?" she railed at him; then apparently relenting: "Perhaps the next time we meet " Orme groaned.
In thy dark eyes' splendor, where the warm light loves to dwell, Weary looks, yet tender, speak their fond farewell. Nita! Juanita! Ask thy soul if we should part, Nita! Juanita! Lean thou on my heart. "When in thy dreaming moons like these shall shine again, And daylight beaming prove thy dreams are vain, Wilt thou not, relenting, for thy absent lover sigh?
I could say no more, for the door opened and Miss Rayner came in. I saw from the determined set of her lips, and the distant, frosty tones in which she spoke to him, that she had no intention of relenting; and I knew it was only a cloak to hide her real feelings, and longed to tear it aside. I tried all in my power to make conversation easy between them.
Not that his fidelity was recompensed by any answering kindness, or show of relenting even, on the part of a mistress obdurate now after ten years of love and benefactions. Steele to inform his mistress of her kinsman's unhappiness, and to deprecate that cruel anger she showed him.
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