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In his daughter Clara, however, the gentleness of sex claimed that warmer affection which was denied to him, who resembled her in almost every attribute of mind and person. Colonel de Haldimar doated on his daughter with a tenderness, for which few, who were familiar with his harsh and unbending nature, ever gave him credit.
He drew for his pay on the day it became due, and it lasted till the next day of payment; and as I found he doated on a Spanish cigar, and a correct glass of cognac grog for he never drank to excess I presented him with a box of the former, and a dozen of the latter, to enable him to bear my nightly absence with Christian composure.
He doated on the prospect of plunging into his work; the vision of jolly giant labours told of peace obtained, and there could be no peace without his prize. He listened to the workmen's foot-falls. The solitary sound and steady motion of their feet were eloquent of early morning in a city, not less than the changes of light in heaven above the roofs.
"In this situation, the man I doated on to distraction had but little difficulty to persuade me to a proposal which, indeed, I thought generous in him to make, as it seemed to proceed from that tenderness for my reputation to which he ascribed it; indeed, it could proceed from no motive with which I should have been displeased. In a word, within two days we were man and wife. "Mr.
This demand was a kind of thunder-stroke to Natura; not but he doated on her enough to have sacrificed infinitely more to her desires, if in his power; but what she asked seemed so wholly out of reach, that he knew not any way by which there was the least probability of attaining it.
I observed, too, with deep rapture of approbation, that the colonel's hands were scarce larger than Miss Fanshawe's own, and suggested that this circumstance might be convenient, as he could wear her gloves at a pinch. On his dear curls, I told her I doated: and as to his low, Grecian brow, and exquisite classic headpiece, I confessed I had no language to do such perfections justice.
In a word, the chief beauty of Helen Cameron was her sensibility. It was the perfume to the rose. Her little boy, born just before his father's death, and upon whom she doated, was a magnificent piece of still life.
The colony would have been much better off "had they not so much doated on their tobacco, on whose furnish foundation there is small stability."
And the man, surely the man he behaved badly last night: but a beauty like this," she pushed a finger at Clara's cheek, and doated a half instant, "you have the very beauty to break in an ogre's temper. And the man is as governable as he is presentable. You have the beauty the French call no, it's the beauty of a queen of elves: one sees them lurking about you, one here, one there.
'Oh! a high wind will make a dead leaf fly like a bird. I soar. Now I do feel proud. I have longed for it to have you leading the country: not tugged at like a waggon with a treble team uphill. We two are a month in advance of all England. You stand by him? only to hear it, for I am sure of it! 'We stand or fall together. Her glowing look doated on the faithful lieutenant.
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