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Knox's heart was not softened by the illness and isolation, nor even by the regrets and repentance, of the dying Queen. She consented to see John Willock, his colleague, and after hearing him "openly confessed that there was no salvation but in and by the death of Jesus Christ." "But of the Mass we had not her confession," says the implacable preacher.
Her rosy lips, whose corners drooped slightly, revealed dazzling teeth, and her whole physiognomy expressed an air of haughty disdain, somewhat softened by her natural elegance.
Only a few days later the college bell's solemn note, sounding over the merry greetings of the gathering students, told that for the good old priest all the lessons of life were over. And Dan, climbing sturdily up the heights at his saintly guide's bidding, has found the way, so far, smoothed and softened beyond his hopes by his summer at Killykinick.
Thanks to trade winds and a fine passage, the Unicorn was in sight of the coast of France about forty days after her departure from Martinique. Little by little the gloomy sadness of the chevalier softened.
His harsh face softened a little as he stepped forward and kissed her. "Maybe I do, but maybe I like to hear you say so. Girl, I've come to take you with me." "With you? Where?" Alarm was in the eyes that flashed to meet his. "To Noche Buena." "But what for?" "Ain't it reason enough that I want you to go? We can get married at Arixico to-night."
The excess of her grief was betrayed by her bent head and quivering shoulders. The light, gleaming above her, threw stray shadows into the depths of her hair, and softened the white, strained tips of her fingers.
When it occurred to her that he might simply be sharpening his mental sword on her steel, but that his heart had at last wandered into a more genial climate than she had ever provided for it, she softened unconsciously; the Scotsman and the American receded into a truer perspective, and the man and the woman approached each other with dangerous nearness. "What shall we do if Francesca and Mr.
I was inclined to resent this, but something in the deep-lined face of the invalid softened me. Besides, I had taken a hearty liking to the old pig. "I don't want any mawkish sentiment about it," he said, observing me closely; "I won't permit anybody to feel sorry for me do you understand?"
But that the butler was in a very softened mood, feeling full of subdued charity towards all the world, he might not have condescended to parley with the man. "What is the favour?" he inquired. "I want you to let me in to see the poor young earl what's left of him." "Let you in to see the earl!" echoed Hedges in surprise. "I never heard such a bold request." "It is bold.
A dry wind brought along all the clean smell of their Continent-mixed odours of sawn lumber, virgin earth, and wood-smoke; and they snuffed it, and their eyes softened as they, identified point after point along their own beloved River places where they played and fished and amused themselves in holiday time. It must be pleasant to have a country of one's very own to show off.
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