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In vain her young companion pointed out to her charge that other Americans at Bellagio seemed far from approving her conduct. American ladies of a very different class, who were staying at the hotel, held aloof from her, and treated her with marked coldness whenever they met; declaring that her manners would be as objectionable in her own country, in good society, as they were in Italy.
The coldness and lack of attention with which Father Yakov had met Kunin's warm and sincere interest in what was the priest's own work was hard for the former's vanity to endure. . . . On the evening of the same day Kunin spent a long time walking about his rooms and thinking. Then he sat down to the table resolutely and wrote a letter to the bishop.
Formerly, the slightest hint, or mere fancied coldness in tone or glance, had sufficed to repulse him: now, positive rudeness could not drive him away. Had he heard of my disappointment; and was he come to witness the result, and triumph in my despair?
Buck Daniels turned and found his companion strangely changed. There was a set expression of coldness about his face, and a chill glitter in his eyes. "I got to wait here for something." "What's that?" "They's a man in town that may want to see me." "Mac Strann! I've heard about him.
He received me kindly, but took the manuscript I offered him with what I again thought great coldness. He read two or three pages, without as before drawing his pencil upon me, and then paused. 'You have enjoined me a task, said he, 'Mr. Trevor, which I do not know how to execute to my own satisfaction.
A grayish hue crept over it; and, drawing her slender form to its full height, she replied, with haughty coldness: "What do you mean? I can only conjecture." "Beulah, you know he loves you!" cried Clara, with a strangely quiet smile. "Clara Sanders, never say that again as long as you live; for there is not the shadow of truth in it." "Ah, I would not believe it till it was forced upon me.
It was only a bit of washing after all, and he was glad he hadn't fired his gun. On the other hand, Lanty confessed she had got "so skeert" being alone, that she came to seek him. She had the shivers; wasn't her hand cold? It was, but thrilling even in its coldness to the bashfully admiring man.
"But you understand the cause of that coldness now," said Gertrude, looking up at him through a rain of tears, which like a summer sun-shower reflected itself in rainbow smiles upon her happy countenance. "You know now why I dared not let my heart speak out." "And this was all, then?" cried Willie; "and you are free, and I may love you still?"
Robert, who was delighted with his little sister-in-law's success, went smiling to talk of it to Mrs. Darcy, while Catherine with a gentle coldness answered Mr. Longstaffe's questions on the same theme. 'Shall we? said Rose, panting a little, but radiant, looking down on her companion.
She has transfused into her German or Scandinavian legends the imaginative and daring tone of the originals, without the mystical exaggerations of the one, or the painful fierceness and coarseness of the other she has preserved the clearness and elegance of the French, without their coldness or affectation and the tenderness and simplicity of the early Italians, without their diffuseness or languor.
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