United States or Wallis and Futuna ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The old face looked forgiving over this, but set itself in lines of fixed anger as she added: "It was not like the thing that parted us." "You wish not to tell me that?" "My dear, it is not a thing for you to hear." The gentleness of the speaker averted the storm of indignation and contempt which similar expressions of the correctitudes had more than once excited in this rebellious young lady.
Gladstone's zeal and devotion, his ceremonious phrases, his low bows, his punctilious correctitudes, were utterly wasted; and when, in the excess of his loyalty, he went further, and imputed to the object of his veneration, with obsequious blindness, the subtlety of intellect, the wide reading, the grave enthusiasm, which he himself possessed, the misunderstanding became complete.
Word Of The Day