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Silence lasted rather a long time, but that unnatural felicity was imperfect, and increased my excitement. "How canst thou complain," she said tenderly, "when it is to that very imperfection of our enjoyment that we are indebted for its continuance?
The fate of Lord Alphingham's child, the little Agnes, was truly happy in her own innocence; she lived on for many years in ignorance of her real rank and the title of her father, under the careful guidance of that relative to whom her mother's last words had tenderly consigned her. Mr. and Mrs.
Robin Clifford, coming home from the fields in the late afternoon, saw the fallen bough covered with a scented splendour of late roses, and lifting it tenderly carried it into the house, thinking somewhat sadly that in the old days Innocent would have been grieved had she seen such havoc made.
Rembrandt could have been nothing but what was delightful and good, since he was loved by so charming a girl as Saskia. He painted her sitting upon his knee, and used her as model in many pictures. First, last, and always he loved her tenderly. In one portrait she is dressed in "red and gold-embroidered velvets"; the mantle she wore he had brought from Leyden.
When I say this person was a lady I'm not denying that she raised the devil with me. She did that good and plenty, so at last I decided to break away and I did. It wasn't exactly a path of roses for me those weeks, but I stuck to it, because because I had some one to help me," he paused and looked tenderly at Alice, "and well, I cut the whole thing out, gambling and all. That was six months ago."
The lawyer, stirred out of his professional calm by this human side of the cold and haughty young woman, placed one hand tenderly, if somewhat tentatively, upon her shoulder. For a time, he patted her gently, while he waited for her tempest to pass. "There, there, my dear. Don't let it affect you so," he said. "It is nothing but a storm-cloud, that will quickly pass away.
And even if you have outgrown your love, which is, indeed, more probable, come still to visit me wherever I may be, and we shall meet as friends and rejoice in the meeting." "You know best," he murmured. "Let it be as you have said." He arose, took her face between his hands, gazed long and tenderly into her eyes, pressed a kiss upon her forehead, and hastened away.
"Do you care for a blessing, gentle Skeptic!" he asked in a soft tone that thrilled tenderly through the silence of the dimly-lit chapel, then, receiving no reply, he laid one hand gently on the young man's dark, clustering curls, and with the other slowly traced the sign of the cross upon the smooth, broad fairness of his forehead.
Henceforth I am a model wife, else I don't deserve the dearest, best man ever born'; and being in a dramatic mood, Mrs Juno tenderly embraced her excellent Jove in the moonlight, to the great amusement of sundry lingerers behind them.
Cecilia, who both read and pitied these conflicting emotions, was herself extremely hurt by this necessary separation. She tenderly loved Henrietta, she loved her even the more for the sympathy of their affections, which called forth the most forcible commiseration, that which springs from fellow-feeling!
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