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"Dear Barby," said Fleda with softening eyes, "won't you be something good yourself?" Barby put up her hand to shield her face. Fleda was silent for she saw that strong feeling was at work. "I wish I could," Barby broke forth at last, "if it was only for your sake." "Dear Barby," said Fleda, "you can do this for me you can go to church and hear what Mr. Olmney says.
It had a softening effect upon the devoted wife, infusing peace, content, and calm repose. The solemn reminders on every side had a charm to soothe her hitherto troubled breast. Holy emotions were nurtured within the heart where once reposed unresisting conflicts of rebellious strife and discontent. With the warm breath of nature came awakening life into the emaciated frame of the invalid.
Listlessly she moved closer to the picture, turning away from him as she did so. "Just the slightest softening of the tone the finishing touch!" he murmured in caressing accents; while to himself he muttered "It shall not be! It shall never be!"
A tinge of the same expression was on Father Kelly's kind old countenance, but the Vicar-General's features were as inscrutable as a doctor's. He had made a genial procession through the room, distributing the merited praise at each booth, and appreciably softening the atmosphere by his presence. He halted opposite Norah's party. Father Kelly's gaze grew anxious.
She lifted her head a little and, still with it turned from him, looked at the pagan glory of the day. Her eyes closed with the delight of that moment. She felt her resistance breaking down, the weakening and softening of her resolutions. Was she at last to know the splendor of loving and giving? "Ain't you played with me long enough, Pearl?" his voice was in her ear, a broken, husky whisper.
Then we are ready to help others, and care less to hinder any, because nobody's elbows are in our way. So I am glad you have a little life left; you will be saccharine enough in a few years. Some of the softening effects of advancing age have struck me very much in what I have heard or seen here and elsewhere. I just now spoke of the sweetening process that authors undergo.
The wool, previously impregnated with a solution of soap, intended on the one hand to facilitate the interlacing, the compression, and the softening of the wool, and on the other to prevent its diminution by the beating, issued from the mill in the shape of thick felt cloth.
And an extraneous influence has worked in the same direction the gradual softening of manners within historical times, that demasculinization which is an inevitable concomitant of increasing social security. Divinity reflects its human creators and their environment; grandiose or warlike gods become superfluous, and finally incomprehensible, in humdrum days of peace.
It harmonized with the soft tints of her delicately rounded face, with the rich color in her hair, with the light in her eyes. It added to all these charms, softening them, giving to them a more perfect luster. "Oh, Maggie!" said Nancy, clasping her hands, "you ought always to be dressed as you are now." Maggie dropped her arms suddenly to her sides.
"Not by what I have uttered and she may care nothing for me but my actions must have said that I love her." "What do you mean by 'love her'?" the merchant angrily demanded. "Is it possible that you have forgotten?" "Of course not," he said, softening. "Who is she?" "A girl whose life has been a devotion an angel." "Bosh! That's all romance.
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