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But you must step aside with me," she added, looking significantly at Miss Trapper. Matthew stepped aside; and she placed her lips to his ear, and whispered, "What do you think of Miss Trapper?" "A very pretty girl," said Matthew. "So she is; and one of the best-hearted creatures that ever lived. A little singular in one respect, perhaps." "What is that?" "Oh! she speaks out her mind that's all.
She must have thought I'd fallen asleep, for she turned to the Bishop, and holding out her hand, she said softly: "My dear, dear Bishop, you are the best-hearted, the saintliest man on earth. Because you are so beautifully clean-souled yourself, you must pardon me. I am ashamed to say it, but I shall have no rest till I do.
The ballot-box, like God, says: 'Give me your heart. The best-hearted men are the best qualified to vote; and, in this light, the blacks, with their characteristic gentleness, patience, and affectionateness, are peculiarly entitled to vote.
'How ever they live as they do passes my comprehension. There was Mrs. Cartwright taking home fruit and flowers which cost a pretty penny, I'll be bound. And her talk! I thought I should never get away. There's one thing, she never has any but good-natured gossip; I never leave her without feeling that she is one of the best-hearted women I know.
"Ole is Ole, Mister Sylvius," said Joel, "and that is equivalent to saying that he is the best-hearted fellow in the world." "I believe you, my dear Joel, and what you say only makes me the more anxious to see him. I sha'n't have to wait long. Something tells me that the 'Viking' will soon come safely into port." "God grant it!" "And why should He not hear your prayer?
"Where did you put up?" echoed Harry, loosening his riding-jacket to give his knife and fork freer play. "I spent a week at Tom Coston's and a week at Craddock. Another lump of sugar, Todd." The boy laughed gently: "Lazy Tom's?" "Lazy Tom's and the best-hearted fellow in the world. They're going to make him a judge, they say and " " What of peach brandy? No cream in mine, Todd."
Bingham'' spoke very little English, almost none, and could neither read nor write; but he was the best-hearted old fellow in the world. He must have been over fifty years of age. He had two of his front teeth knocked out, which was done by his parents as a sign of grief at the death of Kamehameha, the great king of the Sandwich Islands.
"Well, an' to be sure," Kitty answered, radiant as she rose from her defeats, "if you'll kape a cat that does n't know a mouse when she sees it, an' a dog that only barks for his livin', and a part that only squawks an' bites an' niver spakes a word, ye must be the best-hearted woman that's alive, an' bliss ye, if ye was only a good Catholic, the Holy Father 'd make a saint of ye in less than no time!"
Nature meant me to be one of the frankest, the most truthful, the best-hearted of men. I detest the tortuous ways of the old diplomacy. The spoken word pleases me best. That is why I like a few minutes' conversation with the enemy, why I love to stand here and talk to you with the buttons off our foils. We are scheming against you and your country, and you know it, and we shall win.
Many's the time I wish I was with him, for I'm dog-tired of everything goin'. Best-hearted feller ever broke bread, Bat was; an' the prittiest rider ever I seen on a horse. Yes; pore ole chap's gone. You'd 'a' thought he was on'y asleep when " No further word was spoken for a couple of minutes. Then Stevenson asked: "How long since you came down?" "Five months since I left the Diamantinar.
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