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Here were the same entire simplicity, with its innate dignity only further developed; the power of being herself and no other, which left her thoughtful of what she ought to do not of how she should look and strike others and rendered her free to consider her neighbours; the docility to fit guidance, and yet the ability to judge for herself; the quick sense all the time of her high calling.
Whatever causes had been at work, he was very sure, had done no harm to the character; its old simplicity had suffered no change, as every look and movement proved; the very unstudied careless position of the fingers over the eyes showed that the thoughts had nothing to do there. On one half of his doubt Mr.
The names of these worthies are set up beside them, together with their capacity in guns a custom highly conducive to ease and satisfaction in social intercourse, if it could be adapted to mankind. She is a very gratifying experience, in the simplicity and humanity of her arrangements for troops, in her provision for light and air and cleanliness, and in her care for women and children.
If she noticed vaguely a certain confused impatience and desire to get rid of her in the looks of her sister and the Australian, she attached no distinct meaning to it, but spoke out with all the simplicity of an independent power, knowing all authority and executive force to lie in her own hands alone. "When do you think you can be ready to start? My mind is made up.
And they set themselves to realize that ideal with a simplicity, an energy, an endurance, which were altogether heroic. How far they were right in "giving up the world" depends entirely on what the world was then like, and whether there was any hope of reforming it.
Those who remain at home may grow richer and live more comfortably than those who wander; but I desire neither to live comfortably nor to grow rich. 'By Jove, those are fine words, said Arthur, rising to his feet. Their brave simplicity moved him as no rhetoric could have done, and they made him more eager still to devote his own life to the difficult acquisition of knowledge.
"What surprises you all so, my good friends," said the doctor, stopping and looking round in all his native simplicity. "My dear doctor" said Lady Cecilia, "only we all thought you were gone that's all." "And I am not gone, that's all. I stayed to write a letter, and am come here to look for but I cannot find-my "
Had his labors ceased at that moment, he would have cheerfully exclaimed in the words of Simeon: 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. "The congratulations of his friends followed. He received them with modesty, in perfect harmony with the simplicity of his character.
At first it was to have been very plain, black and white and a single rose; but it was settled that simplicity had been overdone, and, like a country girl after her first season, had turned into a most affected baggage, so they agreed to be regal; and fancy uniforms, worthy of the court of Oberon, were the order of the day.
Stanford found me incapable of dancing, and had to revive me with bouillon." WEIGHING DELIGHT AND DOLE Hamlet, i. 2. Strangely enough the thought which most strongly impressed Maurice Wynne on the morning following the Mardi Gras ball was the simplicity of life.
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