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And when he reached the home he told them all of Edna's invitation to Bessie, and how he had answered her. Mrs. Lambert looked wistfully at her daughter. "You would like to go, Bessie; it would do you good, and indeed I am growing stronger every day. I would spare you willingly." "No, mother, I am not going to leave you just now. Why, you have not been down yet to breakfast.
"May I see you home, Christine?" Christina stopped short in the pathway. Never in all her nineteen years had she been asked that momentous question; the opening note of all country romances. She had heard it sounded on every side for years but its music had always passed her by. She had begun to wonder just a little wistfully, when she would hear it. And now here it was!
"You know you've been wrong to me, don't you?" she said, half wistfully, half menacing. He felt her wistfulness and her menace tearing him in his bowels and loins. "You do know, don't you?" she insisted, still with the wistful appeal, and the veiled threat. "You do, or you would answer," she said. "You've still got enough that's right in you, for you to know." She waited.
Lyman's, Jonah Johnson's, and so on, past houses, and clearings, and woodlands, looking almost wistfully, as if he expected pleasant greetings; but the few he saw merely nodded to him, or called out: "Are you back again?"
Achilles moved with quick, gliding step, taking orders, filling bags, making change always with his dark eyes seeking, a little wistfully, something that did not come to them.... It was all so different this new world. Achilles had been in Chicago six months now, but he had not yet forgotten a dream that he had dreamed in Athens.
"Not as far as the man's career is concerned, if he marries your sister, and not so far as your sister is concerned. People are prone to believe the worst, as the sparks fly upward." "Then they will," Maria said, obstinately. "I have made up my mind I dare not undertake the responsibility." "What will you do afterwards, come back to me?" Miss Blair said, wistfully.
Without understanding why or what it was, she yet felt that something had happened which put a slight barrier between them; that something in which she had no share had touched Barbara. She had been wistfully watching her ever since she had returned from the visit to Howard, and was striving to keep all opportunity for painful thought from her.
"Not very," she answered with a tired and rather disappointed smile. "Oh, but why didn't you tell me?" he protested in a convincing voice of concern, as he led her back into the house and helped her into her cloak. As a chorus of farewell rose and isolated them, he lowered his voice. "You'll let me know when you have any news of Jack, won't you?" "If," she answered wistfully.
'Quite well, said Ethel. 'But papa has been most unluckily sent for to Whitford, and can't get home till the last train. 'It may be as well, said Tom: 'we must have perfect quiet till after the night's rest. 'May I see one else to-night? she wistfully asked. 'Let us see how you are when you have had some coffee and are rested.
'Do you think, he said, 'that you are to go this journey on your own charges? Had you insisted, as some do, to go at all hazards, you might indeed have feared. And even now I cannot promise that you will not feel the thorns of the earth as you pass; but you will be cared for, so that no harm can come. 'Ah, she said wistfully, 'it is not for harm and could say nothing more.
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