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The other Stewards were not unwilling to have it tamed down a little, but he Seraph, generally the easiest of all sweet-tempered creatures, refused resolutely to let it be touched.

You are very sweet-tempered, I know, John Ridd, and perhaps a little too sweet at times' here she meant the Snowe girls, and I hanged my head 'but what would you say if the people there' she never would call them 'Doones' 'had gotten your poor Uncle Reuben, horse, and Sunday coat, and all? 'Why, mother, I should be sorry for them.

"So gracefully sweet-tempered; so domestic, joyful, busy, and light-hearted!" said the Voice. "Otherwise I never could have loved her as I did," returned the Carrier. The Voice, correcting him, said "do." The Carrier repeated "as I did." But not firmly. His faltering tongue resisted his control, and would speak in its own way for itself and him.

Miss Rachel used to remark that the Italian side of him was uppermost, on those occasions when he unexpectedly gave in, and asked you in his nice sweet-tempered way to take his own responsibilities on your shoulders. You will do him no injustice, I think, if you conclude that the Italian side of him was uppermost now. "Isn't it your business, sir," I asked, "to know what to do next?

I ventured to remind him that he might speak to Helena as well as to myself. He looked as black as thunder when I mentioned her name. All he said was, "No!" But, oh, if you had heard his voice and he so gentle and sweet-tempered at other times you would have felt, as I did, that he had Helena in his mind! "Now, listen to this," he went on. "Everything that my art can do for Mr.

She was a docile child, sunny and sweet-tempered, and that very pliancy of nature was what caused the nun many a moment of uneasiness.

"All the m-more reason why you ought not to ask me now. I w-wish you'd get your m-mind on something besides me." Vesty composed herself at the end of the boat. "Sweet-tempered child!" said he, regarding her from the helm. She dipped her hand in the water and smoothed her stray locks; they curled up again. "My mind is still on you, Vesty and will be for ever and aye, sweetheart."

Four pairs of eyes riveted themselves wonderingly on Dorothy's flushed, indignant face. None of the quartette had ever before seen sweet-tempered Dorothy Martin so manifestly angry. Something of an unusual nature must have happened. "Don't ask me now. Listen!" A loud blast from the whistle, held to Selina Brown's lips, was now enjoining silence.

So strong he was, he could make old Abdul cry out, pulling at his beard, so sweet-tempered and healthy that he would sleep just where he was put down, like other babies of Rubbulgurh. Tooni grieved deeply that she could not give him a bottle, and a coral, and a perambulator, and often wondered that he consented to thrive without these things, but the fact remains that he did.

She was a sweet-tempered maiden, but she did not like being treated lightly; and in assuming that he might coolly appropriate her special property, it seemed to her that Cecil was treating her very lightly indeed. She had a moment's swift wish that Jim were there to take her part.