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Yes," he said, smiling to him as tenderly as a woman, "give me carte blanche, retire from the regiment, and I'll draw you upwards imperceptibly." "But you must understand that I want nothing," said Vronsky, "except that all should be as it is." Serpuhovskoy got up and stood facing him. "You say that all should be as it is. I understand what that means.
"But, little wife," turning to Violet, with a tenderly affectionate air, "you are not to exert yourself in the least with shopping, sewing, or packing. I positively forbid it," he added, with playful authority. "That is right, captain," Elsie said, with a pleased smile. "She is not strong enough yet for any such exertion, nor has she any need to make it."
Her beautiful hair fell round her once more in a soft life and confusion, and the roses which her mother had placed beside her on the bed were not in too pitiful contrast with her frail loveliness. "Read it, please," she said, as soon as she found herself alone with Julie, pushing her letter tenderly towards her. "He tells me everything everything!
"Oh yes, to be sure," interrupted Charley, who still strove to turn Kate from her serious frame of mind; "but sister dear, how could I possibly say I was thankful with my head crammed into an old cask and my feet pointing up to the blue sky, eh?" Kate smiled at this, and laid her hand on his arm, while she bent over the pillow and looked tenderly into his eyes.
If one owes a large debt of pleasure to pictorial art one comes to think tenderly and easily of its whole evolution, as of the conscious experience of a single mysterious, striving spirit, and one shrinks from saying rude things about any particular phase of it, just as one would from referring without precautions to some error or lapse in the life of a person one esteemed.
Paul sat down on the edge of the bench in the bar. Some colliers were "reckoning" sharing out their money in a corner; others came in. They all glanced at the boy without speaking. At last Morel came; brisk, and with something of an air, even in his blackness. "Hello!" he said rather tenderly to his son. "Have you bested me? Shall you have a drink of something?"
"No," she said, but it was with a gasp. Lois's eyes opened wide, and her face changed. "Oh!" she murmured, as the sense of what she had done swept over her. She rose to her feet and, bending down, kissed Mrs. Lancaster tenderly. One might have thought she was the elder of the two. Lois returned home in deep thought. She had surprised Mrs. Lancaster's secret, and the end was plain.
The stranger is on his feet. A moment or two the brothers stand gazing at each other, then tenderly embrace. "William!" How the stranger starts and trembles! He had not seen, in the quiet maiden, moving among and ministering to the children so unobtrusively, the one he had parted from years before the one to whom he had been so false.
"You believe me, captain," I said, overcome by the man's faith; "you believe me when I tell you that one I have known from childhood refused to recognize me to-day?" He raised me in his arms as tenderly as a woman might. "And the whole world denied you, lad, I would not. I believe you " and he repeated it again and again, unable to get farther.
He himself was wounded, but not badly, for he could easily have crawled to a place of safety; and yet he remained with a comrade, holding his head on his knees and ministering to him as tenderly as a woman, in a spot where life could not be valued at a pin's purchase. Deeds like that are common at the Front. The other thing which impressed him was the tremendous power of religion.
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