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She put a warm hand on Lydia's shoulder and looked down at her admiringly: wistfully as well. "Can anything," the look said, "be so young, so unthinkingly beautiful and have a right to its own richness? How could we turn this dower into the treasury of the poor and yet not impoverish the child herself?" "We'll have an Italian class and a Greek.
He continued to talk wistfully about joining the Insurrectos, and O'Reilly would have been glad to put him in the way of realizing his fantastic ambition to "taste the salt of life" had it been in his power; but, since he himself depended upon friends unknown to him, he did not dare to risk complicating matters. In fact, he did not even tell Branch of his coming adventure.
"You've told me a hundred times that I was different from other girls. But now you're wanting me to be like all the rest. Where would the difference be then?" she asked a little wistfully. "Why can't you go on liking me the way I am, instead of making me over?" But Carlos Deane could not see.
"I am Donna Corblay." Carey bowed and continued. "Your husband told me once that he had some great plans afoot, and did me the honor to ask me to help him " he paused, watching her wistfully "and I want to know if you object to me as an associate of your husband in his work." Donna looked at him gravely. "I have neither bitterness nor revengeful feeling against you, Mr. Carey" she replied.
She could not help growing pale and thin however, and Papa saw with concern that, as the summer went on, she became too languid to read, or study, or sew, and just sat hour after hour, with folded hands, gazing wistfully out of the window. He tried the experiment of taking her to drive.
"Miss Ludolph, please tell me what I can do for you?" She looked at him wistfully and said: "This is a time when loss and disaster burden every heart, and I know it is a duty to try to maintain a cheerful courage, and forget personal troubles. I have tried to-day, and, with God's help, hope in time to succeed.
I have nothing to love under heaven but thee!" The good man turned wistfully, and raised, with tremulous hands, the sad face that had pressed itself on his bosom. Gazing thereon mournfully, he said, "Some new grief hath chanced to thee, my child. Methought I heard another voice besides thine in yonder room. Ah, has Lord Hastings " "Father, spare me!
Harboro was noting, with a relief which he could scarcely understand, that he was among strangers. The people of Eagle Pass were almost wholly unrepresented as yet. The few Americans present seemed to be casual sightseers or ranchmen neighbors of the bridegroom. Left alone, Sylvia looked eagerly and a little wistfully toward the dancers. Her muscles were yielding to the call of the violins.
The Cure nodded appreciatively. "Wonderful! Wonderful! But do you not think," he added, a little wistfully for, was he not a Frenchman, susceptible like all his race to the appearance of things? "do you not think it might be too fashionable for me?" "Not a whit not a whit," replied the Seigneur generously. "Should not a Cure look distinguished be dignified?
He raised his head and looked at her a trifle wistfully. "You can't understand just what Ed's death meant to me, Miss Walton. You see, he was about the only real friend I ever had, the only fellow I ever got real close to. And he was such a thoroughbred, and and was so darn so mighty good to me! I tell you, it sort of knocked me out for awhile." "I'm sorry I didn't know him," said Eve, softly.
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