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"'Chess is most interesting, she observed, sedately. She had completely recovered her self-possession. Still I saw that she now had a certain respect for my defensive powers. It was very soothing to me. "'You know, said I, gravely, 'that I am fonder of Jack than of anybody. That's the reason we never write each other, except to borrow things.
He was known in Paris as an assassin, and in England, thanks to the bullet letter, as a "fanfaron" and brave braggart. With these results he wended his way home much depressed in spirits, but not in the least discouraged, and fonder of fighting than ever. Virginia, however, took a kinder view of the campaign than did her defeated soldier.
I don't think it exactly displeased me, or that I would have had it otherwise if I could, but it seemed to me like a birthmark, or something not to be lightly spoken of. People were naturally always fonder of Ad than of me, and I used to feel the chill of reflected light pretty often. It came into even my relations with my mother.
That's the way I used to amuse myself when I was young, now I am old, the sea tempts me less, and I am fonder of my arm-chair; yet I've seen a good deal in my time enough to provide me with memories for my declining days. And it's a droll thing, too," he added, with a laugh, "the further south you go, the more immoral and merry are the people; the further north, the more virtuous and miserable.
"To college?" gasped Miss Cordelia. "Yes," said Mary, still intent upon her panorama, "there's a good one in California. I'll look it up." The more Mary thought of it, the fonder she grew of her idea which is, I think, a human trait and true of nearly every one.
At my urgent request, he completed the head whose resemblance to Hester Chaffin had so startled and amazed me the night I saw it first, and he regarded it with fonder interest than he was wont to bestow upon the work of his brush.
"Oh, folk say he is going to be married to Molly Gibson," answered Mary, as indifferently as she could. "Thou'st played thy cards badly, then," replied her father in a surly tone. "At one time he were much fonder o' thee than thou deservedst." "That's as people think," said Mary pertly, for she remembered that the very morning before, when on her way to her dressmaking work, she had met Mr.
A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader.
The widow Broadnax stirred among her cushions once or twice, as if almost on the point of trying to get out of her chair. She was fonder of finery than her half-sister was, and she would have liked very much to see these beautiful things nearer. But she was still fonder of her own ease than of finery, and it was really a great deal of trouble to get out of her deep, broad low chair.
"To forbid me, I say, more than once to come to her house. No doubt she had her reasons." "Nothing could justify it," said the matron, directing a wondering glance at Mrs. Hilary. "Do not let us blame her," said I. "It is just an unfortunate accident. She is not as fond of me as I could wish, Mrs. Wiggins; and she is a great deal fonder than I could wish of " I broke off. Mrs.
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