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This intelligence also tranquillized the paternal solicitude of the legislature, and, for many months, while the system of depopulation was pursued with the most barbarous fury, it was not permissible even to suspect that the war was yet unextinguished.
With the tenderest of solicitude, Vivian carefully placed Honor's wrap around her shoulders, and gently assisting her up the steep ascent of the boat-house stairs, he stole his hand under the knotted fringe of the warm shawl, and thrust it within her arm. Honor, for a great many reasons, chose to sign a treaty of peace with Vivian Standish.
Her head drooped listlessly against the cushions of the car and dark shadows stained her cheeks beneath the wide-opened eyes eyes that held the startled, frightened expression of one who has heard for the first time the beat of Passion's wings. Gradually, as Errington watched her, the strained look left his face and was replaced by one of infinite solicitude.
You look like you'd met up with some kinda misfortune." Mason was regarding Ford's scarred face with some solicitude. "Just got tangled up a little with my fellow-citizens, in Sunset," Ford explained drily. "I tried to see how much of the real stuff I could get outside of, and then how many I could lick." He shrugged his shoulders a little.
Nothing is more tedious than a circle of young ladies who have got by rote a certain set of phrases and opinions all admiring in the same terms the same things, and detesting in like terms certain others with anxious solicitude each dressing, thinking, and acting, one as much like another as is possible.
They have entered at once upon the stern realities and miseries of life, and to their better nature it is almost hopeless to appeal in after-times, by any of the references which will awaken, if it be only for a moment, some good feeling in ordinary bosoms, however corrupt they may have become. Talk to them of parental solicitude, the happy days of childhood, and the merry games of infancy!
And beneath her intense solicitude was the instinctive feeling, which hurt her, but which she could not dismiss, of her measureless, dominating superiority. With what glad relief would she have changed places with him! 'I'm dying, May, he murmured at length, with a sigh. 'Why doesn't the doctor come? 'He is coming, she replied soothingly. 'You'll be better soon.
"These circumstances occasioned in my mind great indignation with regard to the reports just mentioned, and great solicitude lest General Wilkinson's conduct and Burr's situation might lead to occurrences which Colonel Burr would deprecate, and which involuntarily would put him in the wrong.
Her manner changed. She offered what appeared to be an explanation of her concern for M. Moreau. "Mademoiselle de Kercadiou is with me. The poor child has fainted." There was more, a deal more, she would have said just then, but for M. d'Ormesson's presence. Moved by a deep solicitude for Mademoiselle de Kertadiou, de La Tour d'Azyr sprang up despite his wound.
Under the impulses of his solicitude and affection Clancy entered quickly, and took Mara's hand in such a strong, warm grasp that the color would come into her pale face. In spite of her peculiarities and seeming coldness, she was a girl who could easily awaken a passionate love in a warm, generous-hearted man like the one who looked into her eyes with something like entreaty in his own.
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