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Helen felt a rush of gladness that she had yielded to Bo's wild importunities to take her West. The spirit which had made Bo incorrigible at home probably would make her react happily to life out in this free country. Yet Helen, with all her warmth and gratefulness, had to laugh at her sister. "Your red-faced cowboy! Why, Bo, you were scared stiff. And now you claim him!"
When he was alone his ardour of gratefulness enabled him to see into her uncle's breast: the inflexible frigidity; lasting regrets and remorse; the compassion for Philip in kinship of grief and loss; the angry dignity; the stately generosity.
As usual he was immaculate in dress, erect, and quietly commanding, but in spite of its smile his face seemed worn, and there were thickening wrinkles, which told of anxiety, about his eyes. "Another year has gone, and we have met again to celebrate with gratefulness the fulfillment of the promise made when the world was young," he said.
Her eyes opened wide as she listened, and she would have given worlds to escape, yet her feeling was mainly of pity. "This is very unfortunate. Calm yourself, Abbé. I will ever have a lively feeling of gratefulness for your devotion. Think of me on those terms." "Ah, Madame, those were the only terms which might have been possible in former days; but they do not belong to the new régime.
As I said afore, Bob Evans was chock-full of gratefulness, and it seemed only fair that he shouldn't grumble at spending a little over the man wot 'ad risked 'is life to save his; but wot with keeping George at his room, and paying for 'im every time they went out, he was spending a lot more money than 'e could afford.
Suppose for in spite of all Sorell's evasions and concealments, he knew very well that Sorell was anxious about him, and the doctors had said ugly things suppose he got really ill? suppose he died, without having lived? He thought of Constance in the moonlit garden, her sweetness, her gratefulness to him for coming, her small, white "flower-face," and the look in her eyes.
Next follow a mournful procession suicidal faces, saved against their wills from drowning; dolefully trailing a length of reluctant gratefulness, with ropy weeds pendant from locks of watchet hue-constrained Lazari Pluto's half-subjects stolen fees from the grave-bilking Charon of his fare.
I have been considering your words, your advice." "And you will take it?" Uniacke said, with a sudden enormous sense of gratefulness. "I think I shall." "Think Sir Graham!" "I'll decide to-night. I must have the day to consider. But yes, you are right. That that horrible appearance. I suppose it must be evoked by the trickery of my own brain." "Undoubtedly." "There can be no other reason for it?"
He, in turn, realized what she had done, and in the consequent warm surge of gratefulness that overwhelmed him forgot his loose-worded tongue. "It wasn't nothin' at all," he said. "Any guy 'ud do it for another. That bunch of hoodlums was lookin' for trouble, an' Arthur wasn't botherin' 'em none. They butted in on 'm, an' then I butted in on them an' poked a few.
These eight qualities shed a lustre on men, viz., wisdom, high lineage, acquaintance with scriptures, self-restraint, prowess, moderation in speech, gift to the extent of one's power, and gratefulness. These high qualities, O sire, are necessarily brought together by one only by gifts.
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