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It means a safe happy home of my own, with no reasonable fear that distrust or poverty or sin should invade it congenial work a companion that I could love and trust and work for and care for " she stopped short. "A husband," said Hubert slowly, "and children to kiss your lips and call you 'Mother, and a man's love to soften and sweeten all the days of your life." She nodded, but did not speak.
He rouses himself from his apathy, and his great earnest eyes lose their look of agonised misery, as he responds to the greeting of the little one. For one moment oh! a mere fraction of a second the squalid faces, the miserable, starved expressions of the crowd, soften at sight of him. There is a faint murmur among the women, which perhaps God's recording angel registered as a blessing. Who knows?
The change of name to the Gehenna was the act of Charon himself, and was prompted, no doubt, by a desire to soften the jealous prejudices of the residents of the Stygian capital against the flourishing and ever-growing metropolis of Illinois. The Associated Shades had had some trouble in getting this craft.
"I have done nothing," answered Gilbert, stolidly determined to depreciate himself in her eyes. But she smiled and laid her gloved hand quickly upon his lips. "I would not have another laugh at you, as I do!" she cried. He looked at her, and the mask of grave melancholy which was fast becoming his natural expression began to soften, as if it could not last forever.
Along the whole length of the sofa on each side of the car ran a row of large single-plate windows, of a blue tint blue to soften the bitter glare of the sun and protect one's eyes from torture. These could be let down out of the way when one wanted the breeze.
"How soft and sleek its speckled coat!" adds another. "And how mild are its little eyes, and gentle as a sperit's," exclaims Mother Fabens. "Will they kill it?" do you inquire. Kill it? No! How could they lay a knife on that delicate throat? Its tender looks would soften a heart of stone, and insure its safety. But what will they do with the panting prisoner? Not let it go!
It appeared to her that the sounds spread to a distance beneath the vaulted roofs, and carried with them a magic charm to soften the hearts of her jailers. It however likewise appeared that the soldier on duty a zealous Catholic, no doubt shook off the charm, for through the door he called: "Hold your tongue, madame!
But Mary's name was not mentioned, for John Grange had thought the matter out. It was impossible, he said, and time would soften the agony for both unless his stay here proved of avail.
Connolly, who was then in charge of the post, received them with the utmost humanity, and instantly placed food before them; but no language can describe the manner in which the miserable father dashed the morsel from his lips and deplored the loss of his child. Misery may harden a disposition naturally bad, but it never fails to soften the heart of a good man.
At these words I saw his features soften; and he cried out, 'D n me, I admire the king of Sweden of all the men in the world; and he is a rascal that is ashamed of doing anything which the king of Sweden did. And yet, if any king of Sweden in France was to tell me that his sister had more merit than mine, by G I'd knock his brains about his ears.
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