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After all, though she was his pupil, and was getting as hardened and cynical as possible, he did not think it fair she should use his own weapons against himself. He did not believe she would try and poison Madame Midas, even though she was certain of not being detected, for he thought she was too tender-hearted.
'I guess the church's been dedicated. I feel like we'd heard the big wind an' I guess, mebbe, the Pentecostal tongues. "An' Timothy he's an awful tender-hearted man in spite o' bein' so notional Timothy just went on in with the milk, without sayin' anything. An' Eppleby side of him.
At all events, being a tender-hearted man too tender indeed for his high position it is easy imagining how such unparalleled beauty in tearful distress must have moved him. Unhappily the political situation holds him as in a vice. The Church is almost solidly against him; while of the Brotherhoods this one of the St. James' has been his only stanch adherent. What shall the poor man do?
The real journalist as I know him is a Bohemian; a font of cleverness running to waste; a reckless, tender-hearted, jolly, careless ne'er-do-well who works like a Trojan and plays like a child. He is very sophisticated at his desk and very artless when he dives into the underworld for rest and recreation.
And I believe they are right; for the devil's in it, if a confided-in rake does not give a girl enough of tragedy in his comedy. 'I asked Sally to oblige my fair-one with her company. Sinclair's leave for Polly. To be sure, she answered, Polly would think it an honour to attend Mrs. Lovelace: but the poor thing was tender-hearted; and as the tragedy was deep, would weep herself blind.
I began boy-like by being so damned credulous and impulsive and affectionate and tender-hearted that even my kid sister laughed at me; and she was only three years older than I. Then followed that period of social loneliness, the longing for the companionship of boys and girls girls particularly, in spite of agonies of shyness and the awakening terrors of shame when the domestic troubles ended in an earthquake which gave me to my father and Helen to my mother, and a scandal to the newspapers.... O hell!
He had known her for ten days, and dreaded to think that in ten days more she might be gone. "I won't talk if you don't wish it." Becky's eyes were on the sea. "I think I should like to talk. I have been thinking about that Indian that you want commemorated in bronze up there on the bluff. Do you think he was cruel?" "Who knows? He was, perhaps, a savage. Yet he may have been tender-hearted.
But the business fell into distress, then into disaster, and in the beginning of 1818 the house failed. The merry, exuberant, satirical Diedrich Knickerbocker was transformed into the genial, urbane, and tender-hearted Geoffrey Crayon. Our fathers and grandfathers knew him well.
The Catawba was affecting to doubt the protests of the emissaries and would have them dismount and prove their good faith by smoking the peace-pipe with him. I give you fair warning, my dears, that you may turn the page here and skip what follows if you are fain to be tender-hearted on the score of these savage enemies of ours.
Then, bidding adieu to the headless corpse, he went on his way to play chaupur with the King. Now, as Raja Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to play chaupur with the King, he came to a burning forest, and a voice rose from the fire saying, 'O traveller, for God's sake save me from the fire!
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