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"He is the Count Waldemar de Volaski, once my betrothed husband, but who forsook me, as I have told you, for another and a fairer woman," gravely replied the abbess. "Once your betrothed husband, madam! Great Heaven! are you sure of this?" exclaimed Salome, in consternation. "Yes, sure of it," answered the abbess, slowly bending her head.
It was in conspectu classis in sight of the Roman fleet; and would any admiral, Roman or British, wish a fairer bay to ride in than that on your right hand? It is astonishing how blind we professed antiquaries sometimes are! Sir Robert Sibbald, Saunders Gordon, General Roy, Dr. Stokely, why, it escaped all of them.
Now, sir, I pay the firm twelve pounds for each passenger I take as his share of the cabin stores; you pay me that, and I will ask for nothing for your passage. I cannot say fairer than that." "You cannot indeed, Captain, and I feel very much obliged to you for the offer very much obliged.
"Oh!" questioned the son; "but are naughty things made like that?" "Ay," returned the father. Whereupon the son: "I know not," he said, "what you say, nor why they should be naughty things: for my part I have as yet seen nought that seemed to me so fair and delectable. They are fairer than the painted angels that you have so often shewn me.
Do you know the English papers run humorous columns! Only they aren't called that. They're called Personal Notices. And such notices!" She leaned across the table. "Listen to this: 'Dearest: Tender loving wishes to my dear one. Only to be with you now and always. None "fairer in my eyes." The man looked uncomfortably about him. "Hush!" he pleaded. "It doesn't sound very nice to me."
The fruit that hung above Guida's head was not fairer and sweeter than she. Philip drew her to him, and her eyes lifted to his. "Is that love, Philip?" she repeated. "Tell me, for I do not know it has all come so soon. You are wiser; do not deceive me; you understand, and I do not. Philip, do not let me deceive myself."
In this election, this strife for objects wholly foreign to all my habits, unsuited to my poverty, at war with aspirations so long devoted to fairer goals, though by obscurer paths, I obeyed but his will or whim, at a moment too when my whole soul sickened for repose and solitude. I had forced myself at last to take interest in what I had before loathed.
Not so with Gerald Grantham. Time, place, circumstance, condition, were alike the same alike indifferent to him. In the recollections of the scenes he had so lately quitted, and in which his fairer and unruffled boyhood had been passed, he took no pleasure, while the future was so enshrouded in gloom that he shrank from its very contemplation.
Sharp, dreamily. "I haven't said that, have I?" "No!" snapped the harassed Mr. Culpepper, laying down the fork and spoon and regarding him ferociously. "I mean, there wasn't anything. I mean, I didn't say so. You're raving." "If I did say it, I'm sorry," persisted Mr. Sharp. "I can't say fairer than that, can I?" "You're all right," said Mr.
Lady Denyer was not the less serious-minded because she was seen at every aristocratic resort, and wore low gowns with very short sleeves, and a great display of mottled arm and dimpled elbow. Now came her ladyship's smiling signal for the withdrawal of that fairer half of the assembly which was supposed to be indifferent to Lord Denyer's famous port and Madeira.
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