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Then I, though I'm averse to the sex, fall an easy, an immediate victim to the individual." "Love at first sight." "Not a bit of it. If she is as beautiful as an angel, with the voice of a peacock or a guinea-hen and, luckily for me, that is a frequent arrangement she is no more to me than the fire-shovel. If she has a sweet voice and pale eyes, I'm safe.
Often her heart went out wistfully towards her invalid friend in New Hampshire, and she would rest herself by writing a long letter, and would cherish the delicately written answers. Now and again there would be some slight reference to "my son" in these letters. As the spring came on they were more frequent, for May would bring the General Assembly, and the son was to be one of the speakers.
My housekeeper was at first well-nigh distracted by these frequent changes; but she has become quite reconciled to them by degrees, and has so fallen in with his humour, that they often consult together with great gravity upon the next final alteration.
Often it was but to nail fast the door. With perfect horsemanship Sam drove his team rapidly on to the south, five miles, ten miles, fifteen, the horses now warming up, but still restless and nervous, even on the way so familiar to them from their frequent journeyings. The steam of their breath enveloped the travellers in a wide, white cloud.
That the old neuralgic recurrences were more frequent again, yes. Already plans for a summer trip abroad, on a curative mission bent, were taking shape. There was a famous nerve specialist, the one who had worked such wonders on his mother's cruelly rheumatic limbs, reassuringly foremost in his mind.
In 1780 he went to London, and commenced writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy, and these attempts being well received, he soon began to fly at higher game, the King and Queen being the most frequent marks for his satirical shafts.
Indeed, such censures were by no means frequent among those of his followers who, if what was alleged had been just, had the best right to complain.
There is no more frequent cause of failure than doubt and dread; a beginner can scarcely put his heart and strength into a work when he knows how long are the odds against his victory, how difficult it is for a new man to win a hearing, even though all editors and publishers are ever pining for a new man.
Neither his appearance nor his situation, a conspicuous place in a pot-house, which all the idle and beer-loving members of the community seemed to frequent, at all prepossessed me in his favour; but I took care to exhibit no symptoms of disgust in my manner, and our conversation began.
She thought he had lacked the lover-like eagerness that one might expect, judging the matter from the standpoint of Gussie's frequent remarks. But believing that Lancy Gurney had more than a friendly feeling for Dexie, she felt uneasy for the result of the struggle between the rivals. Dexie would surely suffer between them.
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