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'My ambition could not endure such a humdrum existence as yours; with these gay-coloured wings of mine I shall soar to higher realms, and be courted and caressed where'er I go! 'Oh that I had wings like yours, or that you clung to earth! sighed the tender-hearted Honeysuckle, who, from having been so long in close companionship with the dark, unsociable Chrysalis had actually grown to like him.
"I told mom so," reiterated Zeb, with a great sigh of relief. "I know what she said must be a pack of foolishness. But you know how mom is. "She's soft. I know," returned Cap'n Ira. "She's so tender-hearted," explained Zeb. "The girl talks so. She's talked mom not into believing in her, but into kind of listening and sympathizing with her. And now, to-night, she's took her to see Elder Minnett."
I would that I had the language of fire, that my words might glow, and burn, and drop like molten lava, that I might wipe you from the face of the earth, or persuade mankind to turn away and starve you to death. Think you that I would regret the ruin that had overwhelmed you? Too long I have been tender-hearted and forbearing.
A few minutes later, some of the neighbors were much surprised to see Bagley and myself going up the road together. My wife, Merton, and tender-hearted Mousie were at the head of the lane watching for me. Reassured, as we approached, they returned wonderingly to the house, and met us at the door. "This is Mrs. Durham," I said. "My dear, please give Mr.
Lowington declared that Shuffles should stay in the brig till he had repented of his folly, and promised obedience for the future. The chaplain was a tender-hearted man, and he thought that some gentle words might touch the feelings of the prisoner, and bring him to a sense of duty. With the principal's permission, therefore, he paid a visit to Shuffles in the evening.
Orion's gaze was fixed on her in horror but in enchantment. Yes, his mother had judged her rightly. No gentle, tender-hearted woman laughed like that; but she was grand, splendid, wonderful in her wrath. She reminded him of the picture of the goddess of vengeance, by Apelles, which he had seen in Constantinople.
By the curses of the tender-hearted friend who collects in No-man's-land between the lines the scattered fragments of his comrade's body the dabs of flesh, the hand, the head he knows so well, a boot with a foot still in it and puts them all together in a sack for burial;
It's only a little revulsion of feeling which has overcome him. He's frightfully tender-hearted far too much so for a sailor; he can't bear the sight of blood; and he knew that if I called you out I should choose him for my second; and you twig, eh!"
It is not a pleasant life, and no wonder young and pretty girls prefer the gay world to the seclusion and labor of Saltpeterie. Yet we will try." He treated the matter lightly, as a thing of common occurrence, yet was Jerome tender-hearted. Men who live in great cities become so hardened to the vice and crime about them that they no longer feel keenly, as we provincials do, the appeal of misery.
"He is a thorough-going warrior. Fancy any man taking all that trouble to lay out old Dubberley!" "Poor Mr Dubberley!" said tender-hearted Kitty. "Do him good!" said Dilly, in whose recollection Dubberley's past enormities loomed large. "I shall be nice to the Secretary Bird now." Dolly said nothing, which was unusual. Perhaps the brown spot still rankled.
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