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The gates of the girl's confidence were opened wider than they had ever been; she said things to this amiable auditress that she had not yet said to any one. Sometimes she took alarm at her candour: it was as if she had given to a comparative stranger the key to her cabinet of jewels.
"Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high; such pleasure she reserved, Adam relating, she sole auditress; Her husband the relater she preferred Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he she knew would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lips Not words alone pleased her."
I have forbidden Adele to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion: have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice; it will be one of the most benevolent acts you ever performed." Adele, indeed, no sooner saw Mrs.
The shrinking of her auditress stopped her for a moment in her flow of words, delivered in a retrospective gloomy voice. 'For his good. Not for the satisfaction of my injury. What was I, and what was the worth of that, before the curse of Heaven!
"I am afraid," said Imlac, "that he will soon be weary of your company. Men advanced far in knowledge do not love to repeat the elements of their art, and I am not certain that even of the elements, as he will deliver them, connected with inferences and mingled with reflections, you are a very capable auditress." "That," said Pekuah, "must be my care. I ask of you only to take me thither.
And here again how admirably does the poet sustain her intellectual dignity, softened by a most tender stroke of conjugal affection. Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high such pleasure she reserved, Adam relating, she sole auditress
"It really vexes me," observed Zenobia, as we left the room, "that Mr. Hollingsworth should be such a laggard. I should not have thought him at all the sort of person to be turned back by a puff of contrary wind, or a few snowflakes drifting into his face." "Do you know Hollingsworth personally?" I inquired. "No; only as an auditor auditress, I mean of some of his lectures," said she.
Alcott's "Conversations," held now with Frederika Bremer, now with a band of large-browed Concord children, held forty years ago, and turning perpetually upon the deeper questions of metaphysics and religion; we will even indulge ourselves with a short extract from one of the "Conversations with Children," reported verbatim by an apparently concealed auditress, and eliciting many a cunning bit of infantine wisdom, besides the following finer rhapsody, which Mr.
You have no notion how the gentle Beaufort's blue eyes blazed up while relating poor Tweedledum's presumption!" "I can have a notion of anything these boasted meek young ladies do when thrown off their guard," haughtily returned his contemptuous auditress, "after Miss Beaufort's violent sally of impertinence to you last night."
He pressed her to his heart, and when, following up the train of her own thoughts, sure that this kind brother, who had done so much to please her was himself unhappy, guessing, and longing, and yet fearing to know the cause, when Lucy, agitated by such feelings, ventured to whisper "Hannah?" her brother placing her gently on the steps leading to the green-house, and leaning himself against the open door, began in a low and subdued tone to pour out his whole heart to his sympathising auditress.
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