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But what you call her passion for Monsieur de Sallenauve, besides being perfectly natural, is expressed by the dear little thing with such freedom and publicity that the sentiment is, it seems to me, obviously childlike." "Well, don't trust to that; especially not after this troublesome being ceases to come to your house.
Her manner was childlike, yet she always seemed to come up out of deep thought when she asked a question; she smiled diffidently until the reply began to come, then took on a reverential gravity, and as soon as it was fully given sank back into thought.
There was something pathetic about the figures bending with childlike faith over their labor of love attempting to make nature smile upon them. Without the vision of the bull pen Fred Starratt would have found much that afternoon that was revolting. But one glimpse into the horrible inferno of the morning had made him less sensitive to milder impressions.
"And when she looked at me," he said, "I almost cried out to her, 'Margery, Margery! The cry leaped up from the depths of me. I don't know how I stopped it. Margery was smaller and more childlike her eyes are darker, her face is her own, not Margery's but she looks at one as Margery did.
I sat rigidly motionless on the grass amid the pink feathery tamarisk flowers. Temporarily absent from the body, I soared in a supernal visit. This was the first of many pilgrimages to Dakshineswar with the holy teacher. From him I learned the sweetness of God in the aspect of Mother, or Divine Mercy. The childlike saint found little appeal in the Father aspect, or Divine Justice.
Verne began to show signs of recovery, which the good old physician smilingly attributed to the "ministering angel," as he gaily dubbed Marguerite. The latter was quietly arranging some delicacies upon a silver tray that stood on the pretty five o'clock. Phillip Lawson remained for a moment to contemplate the picture. The girl looked so guileless and so childlike.
"My pakeha," said the great fellow with a childlike show of satisfaction; and he looked from one to the other and laughed. "Here, he's took to you regular, youngster; only look out, for he'll want utu for it some time. Eh, Ngati? Utu?" "Utu, utu" said the chief, smiling. "What's utu?" said Jem, in a surly tone. "Payment." "Oh, then we'll give him a bit of 'bacco."
Such men are often among the most unobservant of the social sides of life, and very bad judges of character, though there will frequently be found among them an almost childlike unworldliness and simplicity of nature, and an essential moderation of temperament which, combined with their superiority of intellect, gives them a charm peculiarly their own.
Their eyes were seemingly huge, probably no larger than a terrestrian's, though in the tiny head they were necessarily closely placed, protected by heavy bony ridges that actually projected from the skull to enclose them. Tiny, childlike chins completed the head, running down to a scrawny neck.
It seems very strange that an old man buried alive in a small village should have it in his power to do so much harm." "A man's power of doing harm is practically unlimited," he said slowly, still wishing to gain time. "Yes, but he has always appeared so childlike and innocent." "That is exactly what I disliked about him," said Sidney.
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