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To my mother alone did I trouble to point out my real meaning, and then because she had been shocked to see me assailed in her favorite journal, the Presbyterian Searchlight, as a notable example of the result of philosophy unwarmed by religion. That I should have to make my peace with my mother was not surprising, but my old professional mentor, Mr.
To such a state of clearness much self-questioning brought her: but her blood was as yet unwarmed; and that is a condition fostering self-deception as much as when it rages. Madame Marini wrote to ask whether Emilia might receive the visits of a Sir Purcell Barrett, whom they had met, and whom Emilia called her friend; adding: "The other gentleman has called at our old lodgings three times.
He showed her also that, with a fortune like hers, a little piece of bread given to a poor man to get rid of him did not fulfil the duties which God expected of her, that in spite of all her boasting of going to church she was none the better of it, for her prayers had come from a heart unwarmed by love, and could not ascend to the throne of God.
Enter, then, with us one that has seemed, in some degree, to revive the glory of the olden time, when men, as they received, gave lavishly for the service of the altar; nor meted out their offerings with the niggard hand that is moved by the heart of this generation; unmoved, unwarmed, but boastful of its light the light of a moonbeam playing on an iceberg!
"You're right; money talks," said Mark. "It's a man's job, or I wouldn't have called you out of your hole to do it," said Chadron, watching the man slyly for the effect. "Pay me in money," suggested Mark, unwarmed by the compliment. "Is it nesters ag'in?" "Nesters," nodded the cattleman, drawing his great brows in a frown.
Humiliation clung to her like a cold shroud never to be shaken off, unwarmed by this madness of generosity. "Yes. Here. Your home. I can't give it to you and go away, but it is big enough for us two. You need not be afraid. If you say so I shall not even look at you. Remember that grey head of which you have been thinking night and day. Where is it going to rest?
Only one conscientiously punctual German was ever known to arrive at the appointed hour, but the only reward of the Teuton's mistaken zeal was to wait for hours in solitary state in an unwarmed, unlighted room till his host and fellow-guests saw fit to assemble. The meeting-room, or parlour, or drawing-room in Nekrovitch's house was by no means a palatial apartment.
Now his path was open and serene, although unwarmed and unlighted with this precious love, and so, in the heart of the forest, in the soul of the night, in the bosom of the tempest, he had brought life and hope and peace and rest to her, and an angel could not have done it with a purer self-abnegation. He sat near her, at the foot of an old hemlock, waiting for the dawn.
Your hopes have to deal here with 'a breast unwarmed by any affection, as the poet says.... That does not mean it is insensible," he added in a lower tone. "I am certain your heart is not unfeeling," said Miss Haldin softly. "No.
It seemed a little spot of death in the green lap of rejoicing life like that death-spot which often lies in the human heart among all seeming flowers, cold and cheerless, unwarmed by the sunbeam, and unmelted by the ray that unfolds thousands of blooms around. Now, I thought, I have read of Alpine flowers leaning their cheeks on the snows.
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