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She rose as she spoke; but Hermon detained her, while from his lips escaped the anxious question, "So you will take Daphne away from me, and leave me alone in my blindness?" "You in your blindness?" cried Thyone, and the mere reproachful tone of the question banished the fear.
In the morning the Wizard built a fire, over which the girls cooked a very good breakfast. Suddenly Dorothy discovered Toto sitting quietly before the fire, and the little girl exclaimed, "Goodness me, Toto! Where did YOU come from?" "From the place you cruelly left me," replied the dog in a reproachful tone.
When my parents asked me the reason of my nonattendance, I refused to answer them; and at length they became enraged at what they termed my obstinacy, and insisted that I should not fail to attend church on the following Sabbath. When the Sabbath came, I made no preparation for going to church; which mother perceiving, she began to apply the most reproachful and severe language to me.
On fine days I ramble out by a winding rill with my Violante, or stroll to my friend the squire's, and see how healthful a thing is true pleasure; and on wet days I shut myself up, and mope, perhaps till, hark! a gentle tap at the door, and in comes Violante, with her dark eyes, that shine out through reproachful tears, reproachful that I should mourn alone, while she is under my roof; so she puts her arms round me, and in five minutes all is sunshine within.
She had no luncheon. A good, substantial tea, please, Susan. If the child were anticipating a journey, she must be fed. A little later she heard Susan knock at Henrietta's door. It was not opened, but the tray was deposited outside with a slight rattle of china, and Susan's voice, mildly reproachful, exhorted Miss Henrietta to eat and drink.
She turned reproachful eyes upon him. "Why should I want yesterday when I have to-day?" "And to-morrow," he supplemented, "and all the to-morrows to come." "Together," she said, with a swift realisation of the sweetness underlying the word. "Yesterday was perfect, like a jewel that we can put away and keep. When we want to, we can always go back and look at it."
Ulrica uplifted her reproachful eyes to Heaven. "He asks who! he has not even observed it!" "No, my dear wife, I have not." "And yet he has this entire day ," she turned her face aside, feigning to conceal a blush. "To-day! Why we have had no gentlemen guests to-day, except the pastor's assistant who came with the young ladies, and took his departure before they did." "No gentlemen guests!
The lady in question removed her handkerchief from her eyes and gazed at him with reproachful tenderness. Mr. Wilks plunged hastily into conversation. "She came over 'ere to tell me a bit o' news," he said, eyeing the young man doubtfully. "It seems that Teddy " Mr. Nugent fetched a mighty sigh and shook his head; Mrs. Silk gazed at him earnestly. "Life is full of surprises, sir," she remarked.
The impatience in his tone stung her into a feeling of resentment, that for the moment seemed to blot out the much that she owed him. A reproachful word was trembling on her lips, when suddenly he put out his hand. "Hist!" he whispered, the concentrated look of one who listens stamped upon his face. His sharp ears had detected some sound which perhaps through her preoccupation she had not noticed.
Very nice of the dear girl; but there I am with two sweethearts on my hands, and in a deuce of a scrape. Finding it impossible to contain herself another moment, Mrs Jo laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks at this characteristic episode; and after one reproachful look, which only added to her merriment, Tom burst into a jolly roar that made the room ring. 'Tommy Bangs!
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