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He loves it all, he dotes on it. It's the only joy he knows, this bewildering creation of his. For nearly three years he has not been more than a stone's throw from the walls of that house. I doubt if he's been as far as the spot where we're standing now." "Green Fancy. Is that the name he gave the place or does it spring from " "'Twas christened by me own sister, Mr.
Will Hope, he's everybody's friend. He made the Colonel a crutch with his own hands, which the Colonel can use no other now. Walter swears by him. Miss Mary dotes on him: he saved her life in the river when she was a girl. The very miners give him a good word, though he is very strict with them; and as for Bartley, it's my belief he owes all his good luck to Will Hope.
It makes every one's heart ache to see her in this way, for she used to be the happiest creature in the village. "She passes the greater part of the time with Eugene's mother; whose only consolation is her society, and who dotes on her with a mother's tenderness. She is the only one that has perfect influence over Annette in every mood.
Roger Hamley did not say much about that unfortunate little Osborne Hamley, I suppose. 'On the contrary. He says his father dotes on the child; and he seemed very proud of him, himself. 'I thought the squire must be getting very much infatuated with something. I daresay the French mother takes care of that.
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss Who certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves! There, indeed, the woe of the suspicious is shown.
My uncle dotes on her no wonder!" "He is, indeed, very, very, fond of her," said Mrs. Templeton, with a sigh that seemed to come from the depth of her heart. "Did he take a fancy to her before you were married?" "Yes, I believe oh yes, certainly." "Her own father could not be more fond of her." Mrs.
"A semblance of a man, though none such will you see in the streets of a respectable town." "But does your master " began the priest, in some perplexity. Mata cut him short. "Because he can smear ink on paper with a brush, my master dotes on him and says he will adopt him!" The woman's fierce sincerity transmitted vague alarm.
There, too, the fiend of jealousy still pursues him: he prowls round his demesnes with the haggard eye and furtive step of a thief; he guards his wife as a prisoner, for she threatens every day to escape. The life of the man who had opened the prison to so many is the life of a jailer. His wife abhors him, and does not conceal it; and still slavishly he dotes on her.
Betty's eyes sounded him. "She is really very nice I suppose, Madame von Marwitz? You like her very much? Mrs. Forrester dotes upon her, of course; but Mrs. Forrester is an enthusiast." "And I'm not, as you know," Gregory returned, he flattered himself, with skill. "I don't think that I shall ever dote on Madame von Marwitz. When I know her I hope to like her very much.
The Oxford movement began as a late wave of the Romantic movement, with wistful eyes bent upon the past. But Romanticism, which dotes on ruins, shrinks from real restoration. Medievalism is attractive only when seen from a short distance. So the movement is ceasing to be either medieval or Catholic or Anglican; it is becoming definitely Latin.
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