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Madame Giffard was in a soft gray gown to-day that had long wrinkled sleeves, a very short waist, and a square neck filled in with ruffles that stood up in a stiff fashion. She looked very quaint and pretty, more approachable, though the child felt rather than understood. "Are there no women here, and no society? Merci! but it is a strange place, a wilderness.
Moritz, and in the brief moments she could give him Undine was now always gay and approachable. Her fitful humours had vanished, and she showed qualities of comradeship that seemed the promise of a deeper understanding. But this very hope made him more subject to her moods, more fearful of disturbing the harmony between them.
"He was sitting in that high-backed green chair, with his eyes glued to his shoes, and holding his hat and cane in front of him like breastworks, as if he were preparing to repel an attack. He didn't look very approachable, but I boldly accosted him and asked if he were Mr. Stanthrope.
It was the brow of intellect all in front. Behind and above there was no loftiness of ideality or of veneration. His smile was constant, and though slightly cold, was always approachable. His manner was decisive, but clever always, and kind-hearted at times. Contrary to his habit, he grew reminiscent.
In the Southern States great plains interpose between the last leaps of the streams and the sea. Those plains most proximate to navigation, were the first cultivated, and the sea bore their products to the most approachable water power, there to be manufactured. This was the first cause of the difference.
He seemed more approachable to-day, but that did not count probably he was only reflecting Weary's sunshine, and would freeze solid the minute "And so you are the mysterious genius who has set the Butte critics by the ears!" chuckled the senator.
Mantua lies on an island, being cut off on all sides from the main land by the branches of the Mincio, and approachable only by five narrow causeways, of which three were defended by strong and regular fortresses or entrenched camps, the other two by gates, drawbridges, and batteries. Situated amidst stagnant waters and morasses, its air is pestilential, especially to strangers.
For the blazing woods have swept across the homestead of "old man" Jason, for years a landmark in the country, and now it is no more. A mere charred skeleton remains; smoking, smouldering, a witness to the white man's daring in a savage country. The blazing woods are approachable only on the windward side, and even here the heat is blistering.
"Millicent is a little difficult," admitted Millicent's cousin. "What do you suppose it is? She seemed all smooth enough in New York last winter, and even in the spring after But now " He paused again without finishing his sentence. "And I had counted on your influence to make her more approachable." "Oh, Millicent is having a struggle with her better nature, that is all," laughed Mrs. Dinsmore.
"Charming Swiss Cottage" seemed to be a remodeled pig-stye, from which objectionable matter had not been removed. "The House in the Woods" was approachable only through water half-way up to the carriage body; so we regretfully abandoned pursuit of it. "Silver Lake!" exclaimed Sophronia, reading from the memoranda she had penciled from the agent's descriptive list. "That, I am sure, will suit us.
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