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She could not talk and was so silent, indeed, that Dolly became silent too; and so, as the dusk fell upon them, they sat together in a novel quiet, listening to a band of strolling musicians, who were playing somewhere in the distance, and the sound of whose instruments floated to them, softened and made plaintive by the evening air. At last Dolly broke the silence.
So every voice was softened when they spoke to him, and the manner of even the roughest boys became to him affectionate and even caressing. If any had felt inclined to side with Harpour against the monitors before, the sight of Eden went far to alter their convictions. Yet the poor child was never happy except when he was in Walter's society, and in Power's study. Even there he was changed.
It was not fastened, and both went in, Tommaso putting his arm through Don Alberto's to guide him and help him if he stumbled. The rain on the previous night had softened the earth, and there was a path between the inside of the wall and the trained vines. They followed this, until they were twenty paces from the house, when Tommaso stopped. 'The lady is alone in there, he said, pointing.
To me it was as if I had come out of hell, and on the way to the inn I did not speak a word, not even answering the questions which the too-simple Armelline addressed to me in a voice that would have softened a heart of stone. Scholastica avenged me by reproaching her for having obliged me to appear either rude or jealous, or a breaker of my word.
I have repeatedly told you that I don't like it. The acerbity of this remark was softened by May's manner, and, throwing her arms on her mother's shoulders, she commenced to coax and cajole her. The Goulds were of an excellent county family.
Back went the chancellor, with a heavy heart and a troubled face, to the king. He softened the queen's words as much as possible, and assured his majesty her resistance to his will proceeded "from the great passion of love she had for him, which transported her beyond the limits of reason." But this excuse, which should have rejoiced a husband's heart, only irritated his majesty's temper.
Is this really what his friend has just said and in such a tone of undeniable insult? "You said?" "Well!" replies Arrochkoa, somewhat softened and on his guard, observing in the darkness Ramuntcho's attitudes. "Well! you had us almost caught, awkward fellow that you are! The silhouettes of the others appear in another bark. "They are there," he continues. "Let us go near them!"
"Yea, thou art a good child to the last, my little one," said Mary. "You promise, Humfrey?" said Cicely. "I do," he said, knowing as well as the Queen how little chance there was that he would be called on to fulfil it, but feeling that the agony of the parting was thus in some degree softened to Cicely. Mary gave the betrothal ring to Humfrey, and she laid her hands on their clasped ones.
"As a matter of fact, you know, I never do look at Roper." "But that's not the reason," Claire went on, slightly softened by her victory, "that I dislike her. I really dislike her because I think she is bad for Maurice; but perhaps you haven't noticed the way he keeps hanging about her. It makes me sick." Winn admitted that he had noticed it.
I could discern only too clearly that he had taken as proof of dissimulation some circumstance that would only appear suspicious until the opportunity for explanation had passed away for ever hence the unhappiness of which I had gained an inkling during my nursery days and that it was probably not until his heart had been softened by bereavement that he had coolly and dispassionately enough reviewed the circumstances to arrive at the conclusion that he might, after all, have been mistaken.
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