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They had no secrets from one another and even confided to each other their most secret thoughts. Leuillet loved his wife now with a quiet and trustful affection; he loved her as a tender, devoted companion who is an equal and a confidante.
As to whether this or that man liked her, Nedda perhaps was not more ignorant than other women; and she had noted a certain warmth and twinkle in Uncle John's eyes the other evening, a certain rather jolly tendency to look at her when he should have been looking at the person to whom he was talking; so that she felt toward him a trustful kindliness not altogether unmingled with a sense that he was in that Office which controls the destinies of those who 'get into trouble. The motives even of statesmen, they say, are mixed; how much more so, then, of girls in love!
"Faithful friend, and trustful wife!" answered Cardo. "Ah! no," continued Valmai; "I shall never regret having kept my promise! Indeed, I never felt tempted to break it, except one day, when, in the old church, I met your father face to face. Never shall I forget the agonising longing I felt to throw myself at his feet and tell him all, and mingle my tears with his."
Then, as he continued to unpack he grinned in spite of himself, for into his mind came a poem of Guiterman's he'd read lately, about an agnostic Brahmin who didn't believe in prayer, and came inadvertently on a tiger praying for a meal in the jungle: "The trustful Tiger closed his prayer Behold a Brahmin trembling there! The Brahmin never scoffed a whit. The Prayer had answer. He was It."
What other sister could I have given you that you would have loved better?" "Oh, no one; not for her own sake no one half so well." "Then tell her so, and do not cloud her prospects by writing about the house. You have all had shelter and comfort hitherto, and be trustful that it will be continued to you." This did very well with his sister; but the affair with his mother was much more serious.
Was the tourney just; were the weapons equal; was it, after all, a fair fight? on one side, the fallen spirit, mighty still, though fallen, subtlest, most unscrupulous, most malicious, exerting every energy to rear a rebel kingdom against God; on the other, a new-born, inexperienced, innocent, and trustful creature, a poor man vexed with appetites, and as naked for absolute knowledge in his mind as for garments on his body.
The redeeming feature in Saunderson was his eyes, which were large and eloquent, of a trustful, wistful hazel, the beautiful eyes of a dumb animal.
"Oh, you simple-hearted man, so trustful and so big of soul, what is your love not worth to a woman?" "Simple-hearted? I am nothing of the sort. I try to be just and that's all there is to it." "No, Jim Taylor, there's more to it than that. A man may be just and his sense of justice may demand a stricter accounting than you ask for." "I guess you mean that I'm weak."
Large minds are rarely quick, unless they have been corrupted into unnatural vigilance by the necessities of suspicion. But a nature more thoroughly unsuspecting, more frank, trustful, and genuinely loyal than that young Earl's, it was impossible to conceive. All these attributes considered, we have the key to much of Harold's character and conduct in the later events of his fated and tragic life.
But she set her red lips tighter and wrote the letters; wrote them and mailed them that evening, tired though she was. Three letters came back quickly. Her mother's answer was affectionate, patient, and trustful, though not understanding. Her sister's was as unpleasant as she had expected. "The idea!" wrote Mrs. Susie.
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