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"Stephen, you silly! I'm perfectly mad to go with you!" "You'll be madder when you get there, if the table has not improved." As though tables mattered on a night like this!" Then with sudden self-reproach and quick solicitude: "Am I making you walk too far? Wouldn't you like to go in now?"

It was like a cheerful spirit in a mourning household. But we found nothing but solitude, ashes and a heart-breaking silence. Finally we noticed that the wind had risen, and we forgot our thirst in a solicitude of greater importance; for, the lake being quiet, we had not taken pains about securing the boat.

"He wasn't really guilty," said Lydia. "Can't you see he wasn't? Esther stole the necklace, and Madame Beattie wanted it paid for, and Jeffrey tried to do it and everything went to pieces. Can't you really see?" She asked it anxiously, and Alston answered her with the more gentleness because her solicitude made her so kind and fair. "Now," said he, "this is the way it is.

"Who was thee swearing at?" she asked, in much surprise. "Myself, and with good reason." "There is never good reason for such wickedness," she said gravely, but regarding me with deep solicitude. Presently she added, "Thee has had some great provocation?" "No; I've been honored with unmerited kindness and trust, which I have ill requited." "Emily Warren has been to see thee?" "Yes."

How many of the eighteen Republicans who had failed to declare themselves at that Conference might fail to sustain the Impeachment, became, therefore, a matter of active solicitude on all sides, especially in impeachment circles in and out of the Senate.

If I had been asked thirteen years ago, whether I supposed there was any minister in the Methodist New Connexion who regarded me with affectionate solicitude, and who was wishful for an opportunity to speak to me words of love and tenderness, I should have answered, "No."

But the little, baffled, half-wicked smile curled on his face, and he swung away from his mother's solicitude as from everything else. Always moving on from place to place, friend to friend: and always swinging away from sympathy.

Fortunate the youth, the romance of whose existence is placed in a scene befitting its fair and marvellous career; fortunate the passion that is breathed in palaces, amid the ennobling creations of surrounding art, and greets the object of its fond solicitude amid perfumed gardens, and in the shade of green and silent woods!

He had reached the top of the flight of steps; he withdrew his arm from Flora, and thanked her with all his courtesy. 'You are not hurt, then, sir? she ventured to ask with a look that expressed the infinite solicitude which her tongue did not venture to convey. 'By no means, my good little girl; and he extended his hand to her, which she reverently bent over and embraced.

Jane, accompanied by her maid, went to the convent to call upon her old friends the nuns. She made a very short call. "Why are you in such haste?" inquired Sister Agatha. "I am anxious to return to my mother." "But you told me that she was better." "She is much better than usual. But I have a strange feeling of solicitude about her. I shall not feel easy until I see her again."