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The celebrated 'flens quam familiariter, of which the closest rendering grounds hopelessly on harsh prose, to express the sorrowful confidingness of a young girl who has lost her sister and dearest friend, and has but her lover left to her; 'she turned and flung herself on his bosom, weeping as though at home there': this our instinct tells us must be Greek, though hardly finer in Greek.
That glance was more than her own could meet. A new consciousness seemed to be stirred up in her soul. Her eye dropped beneath its long and silken fringe her cheek became crimson her bosom heaved and, all confidingness, she sank her head upon my chest, which heaved scarcely less wildly than her own.
"But you can't live as I've lived and be dead easy not DEAD easy." Palliser had left his chair, and stood in contemptuous silence. "You know how a fellow hates to be thought DEAD easy" Tembarom actually went to the insolent length of saying the words with a touch of cheerful confidingness "when he's NOT. And I'm not. Have another drink." There was a pause.
He was rather better-looking in the face than she had supposed; and in this light she observed more clearly the rather odd expression he wore about the eyes, a quality of youthful hopefulness, a sort of confidingness: not the look of a brick-thrower, unless you happened to know the facts in the case. All this, of course, was his own lookout.
But the native integrity which had been vainly exerted to secure M. Nioche's commercial prosperity flickered up again. "Dame, monsieur!" he answered. "All I can teach you!" And then, recovering himself at a sign from his daughter, "I will wait upon you at your hotel." "Oh yes, I should like to learn French," Newman went on, with democratic confidingness.
Presently the cavalcade passed a gray building in the midst of green fields and orchards, where, under the trees, some black-veiled figures sat spinning. 'A nunnery! quoth Esclairmonde, looking eagerly after it as she rode past. 'A nunnery! said Malcolm, encouraged into the simple confidingness of a young boy. 'How unlike the one where my sister is!
He recognised fully that the intimacy she allowed him, her sweet openness and confidingness, were all conditioned by what she regarded as the fixed points in her life; by her widowhood, legal and spiritual, and by her tacit reliance on his recognition of the fact that she was set apart, bound as other widows were not bound, protected by the very mystery of Sarratt's fate, from any thought of re-marriage.
The celebrated 'flens quam familiariter, of which the closest rendering grounds hopelessly on harsh prose, to express the sorrowful confidingness of a young girl who has lost her sister and dearest friend, and has but her lover left to her; 'she turned and flung herself on his bosom, weeping as though at home there': this our instinct tells us must be Greek, though hardly finer in Greek.
That jealous hair could not hide the broad, fair forehead, "royal with the truth," as smooth as any girl's, and "Too large for wreath of modern wont." Her large brown eyes were beautiful, and were in truth the windows of her soul. They combined the confidingness of a child with the poet-passion of heart and of intellect; and in gazing into them it was easy to read why Mrs. Browning wrote.
That glance was more than her own could meet. A new consciousness seemed to be stirred up in her soul. Her eye dropped beneath its long and silken fringe her cheek became crimson her bosom heaved and, all confidingness, she sank her head upon my chest, which heaved scarcely less wildly than her own.
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