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You know what my life in Canada used to be plenty of work, and not much money but still reasonable hope of prosperity by-and-by. I used to make plans then, of having a home of my own, and I was not content that it should be just like other people's. I thought it would be the brightest, warmest, happiest home in the world. I knew it would be if I only got what I wanted.
'Contempt! cried Kendal, beside himself, and feeling as if all the criticisms he had allowed himself to make of her were recoiling in one avenging mass upon his head. 'I never felt anything but the warmest admiration for your courage, your work, your womanly goodness and sweetness.
He was fed with good things until his gait became an undignified waddle. Moreover he loved the petting which was lavished upon him by this small backwoods maiden. One day after a week of intense cold, during which the baby was confined to the house and the skunk to the warmest corner of his box, the two companions were again abroad, the skunk as usual being led happily along.
Put on your warmest clothing, for the wind is sharp." They flurried out into the hall; then Lulu hesitated, turned about, and ran back. "Papa," she said, rushing up to him, where he sat beside a table, with some papers before him, and throwing her arm round his neck, "dear papa! you are just too good and kind to me! Oh, I don't mean to be disobedient, wilful, or passionate ever again!"
A design so fiendish and monstrous as that which I suspected might rouse the dullest sensibilities, in a case where it threatened the meanest; but being aimed in this at the King, my master, from whom I had received so many benefits, and on whose life the well-being of all depended, it goaded me to the warmest resentment.
But, alas! the period of my happiness had passed away, and what pain and what grief was I not doomed to suffer before I again saw my native country. My brother my poor Henry committed some imprudences, and was suddenly attacked with an intermittent fever, which in a few days carried him off. My Anna and I shed abundance of tears, for we both loved Henry with the warmest affection.
"'If wishes were horses, beggars could ride," quoted Agnes. "Come on, Ruthie! I guess it's up to us." First they went back into the kitchen to put on the warmest things they had boots to keep their feet dry, and sweaters under their school coats, with stockingnet caps drawn down over their ears. "I not only wish we had a boy in the family," grumbled Agnes, "but I wish I were that boy.
It was generally conceded, as the winter wore on, that to this contrivance of the "earthwork" belonged a good half of the credit of the Big Cabin, and its renown as being the warmest spot on the lower river that terrible memorable year of the Klondyke Rush.
Fenton at his sister's house to the following effect: "MY DEAR GILBERT, I find myself obliged to leave this place for London at once, and have not time to thank anyone for the kindness I have received during my stay. Will you do the best to repair this omission on my part, and offer my warmest expressions of gratitude to Captain Sedgewick and Miss Nowell for their goodness to me?
It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that his son, an English gentleman, a captain in the famous British army, should not be found worthy to lie in ground where mere foreigners were buried. Which of us is there can tell how much vanity lurks in our warmest regard for others, and how selfish our love is?
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