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Thank Heaven! years have touched me lightly, and there was more truth than she relished in what Julia Vincent said about my beauty!" This self-complacent soliloquy was cut short by the appearance of her brother, who carried a case of surgical instruments in his hand. "May, tell Beulah I am sorry I did not see her. I would go up and wake her, but have not time. She wished to ask me something.
The majority of burghers, unaccustomed to journeying in railway trains, relished the innovation and managed to make merry even though six of them, together with all their saddles and personal luggage, were crowded into one compartment.
Stone had taken one big step toward the gate post he changed his mind, halted and his hands went up at the very instant Laramie changed his mind, and did not press the trigger against the burly outline darkening the field of his sights. Van Horn, caught, stood helpless and enraged humiliated in circumstances he least relished for humiliation. Everybody's hands were up.
She rested her hand fondly on his arm, and he took it into his own. One evening the pair were out for that sunset walk which their young blood so relished, and which often led them, as it did this time, across the wide, open commons behind the town, where the unsettled streets were turf-grown, and toppling wooden lamp-posts threatened to fall into the wide, cattle-trodden ditches.
Tompkins, that he could easily get some one else to take the mortgage, was not too well relished by Wolford, If he were sure this could be done, he would be content to accept an increase of interest and continue the loan, for the security was of the very safest kind, and ample. "I must think about this," said he to himself, as he walked homeward, after parting with Tompkins.
How sweet is the nectar of the tears shed by love, when that nectar is relished amidst the raptures of mutual ardour! I have often tasted them those delicious tears, and I can say knowingly that the ancient physicians were right, and that the modern are wrong. In a moment of calm, seeing the disorder in which we both were, I told her that we might be surprised.
Hamilton hardly relished this, and half wished, mayhap, as, indeed, gentlemen generally do in similar circumstances, that the little "objection" in the shape of Lenora had never had existence, or at least had never called the widow mother!
For a time Mary cried and spit, hardly knowing whether the relished the joke or not; but when Billy praised her improved looks, telling her that "her mouth was real pretty," and when she herself dried her eyes enough to see that it was a great improvement, she felt better, and wondered why she had never thought to have them out before.
The next year Massachusetts submitted a plan of union, but Connecticut demurred because it permitted a mere majority of the federal commissioners to decide questions. Thereupon Massachusetts injected the boundary question into the discussions, and proposed an article not relished by Connecticut, that the Pequot River should be the line between the two jurisdictions.
I can't imagine you growing old; indeed, truth is never old and feeble." "You are very fanciful, Mr. Morton," she said, with a trace of perplexity again on her face. "I have heard that that was a characteristic of sick people," I laughed. "Yes; we have to humor them like children," she added, smoothing her brow as if this were an excuse for letting me express more admiration than she relished.
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