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But Hugh was not disposed to neglect the opportunity; he ventured to say: "You don't seem to be in such good spirits as usual." The doctor gruffly expressed his opinion that Mr. Mountjoy would not be particularly cheerful, in his place. My lord had taken him to the office, on the distinct understanding that he was to earn a little pocket-money by becoming one of the contributors to the newspaper.
During this time, however, I frequently visited him; and at length, when I thought I was better acquainted, and probably in some little estimation, with him, I ventured to open my wishes on this subject.
So completely did this passion change her that both Eunice and Martha became afraid of her, and lay awake in their beds night after night trembling at the chinking of the coins at her unholy vigils. One day Eunice ventured to remonstrate. "Why don't you bank your money, Tabitha?" she said; "it is surely not safe to keep such large sums in such a lonely house."
What do you suppose Anne and I had?" "Hush, Letty," said Anne. "Whatever we had, it was our own. We were beholden to nobody for it." "Have you seen Maria since I have?" Matilda asked, trying to make a diversion. "No. How should we see Maria? We cannot go jaunting about. We have our work to do." "But it is nice work. I should think you would be very glad to have it," Matilda ventured.
He stood beside her, hat in hand, wishing he had some right to let her know more definitely than he had ventured to do how sorry he was for her, and how she could count on his thinking about her as a brother might while she was within these walls.
"The dining-room," she continued, crossing the narrow hall and opening another door. Mr. Carlyle ventured a genial commonplace in the hope of inducing conversation. The result was not encouraging. Doubtless they would have gone through the house under the same frigid guidance had not Carrados been at fault in a way that Mr. Carlyle had never known him fail before.
He made no attempt at pursuit, acknowledging his mistake with an easy shrug and turning off to roam, a dim, predatory figure, along the dusky street. He had startled and frightened the girl so that she was trembling when she ventured to slow down to a walk under the glaring lights of the Boulevard St. Michel.
"His angels've got charge of him, all right." "I was wondering something," ventured the girl, thoughtfully. "Couldn't we take him in the 'Happy in Spite'?... Eh, Lafe?" Lake looked at her in surprise. "I never thought of takin' anything dead in the club," said he dubiously. "But he's happy, you said, Lafe?" "He's happy enough, yes, sure!" "Then let's take him in," repeated Jinnie eagerly.
Stumbling along through the heavy sand, he made his way to the boathouse at the northern end of the little beach. There he ventured to light his lantern, unlocked the door and stepped within. On either side of the entrance were the two sailboats that he and Dan used in summer and to the rear was the old-fashioned whaleboat with which they did their deep fishing.
But there was no such person unless she had a double: for what more could a man desire than the ideal traits he had been able to describe only by using her as his inspiration. When he ventured to look at her, one glance was enough to convince him that she, too, had noticed the parallel had been forced to recognize her own features in the portrait he had constructed of an ideal.