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In the main he was indulgent and kind, though quick and passionate, brooking no opposition; and the girls were really more attached to him and found more pleasure in his society than in their mother's. Zelica, the youngest, was his special favorite, and he humored and petted her at a ruinous rate, though often storming at some of her follies. Mrs.
For if thou pardon her, and make her thine again, I swear Thou never wilt repent, dear love, thou thus hast humored her! It is the law of honor, which thou wilt never break, That the secret of sweet hours of love thou mayst not common make. That never shouldst thou fail in love, or into coldness fall, Toward thy little Moorish maiden, who has given thee her all."
Finally, she herself, with the assistance of a new friend of Kitty's, had become Kitty's nurse, had taken her abroad when Ashe could not be spared, had watched over her, and humored her, and at last brought her back so the doctors said restored. Was it really recovery?
Sir Philip had humored him in this fancy, little imagining that any mischief would come of it and the reward of his kindly sympathy was this, his name was compromised, his home desolate, and his wife estranged from him! In the first pangs of the remorse and sorrow that filled his heart, Neville could gladly have gone out and drowned himself.
You see I've got into such an infernal habit of regarding her as my wife that I can't look on her in any other light. I claimed her, you know, and all that sort of thing, and she thought I was delirious, and felt sorry, and humored me, and gave me a very favorable answer." "Humored you?" "Yes; that's what she says now, you know.
Waking, I prayed for her; sleeping in her arms, I dreamed of the future we should spend together. At the close of the session, she went into Vermont to visit her invalid mother, and I to Mr. Wright's quiet home, to remain until the end of vacation. The minister was a kind-hearted but weak old man, who treated me tenderly, and humored every caprice that attacked my brain.
In an instant there followed a loud knocking at the outer door, and forgetful of their own troubles, they crowded together like a flock of frightened crows driven from a cornfield. The evening had passed very pleasantly to Elsie; Mellen had humored her caprices at whatever cost to himself, and kept her thoughts as much aloof as possible from the events of the past days.
But when the two heroes met, then began a scene of warlike parade that beggars all description. The shrewd Risingh, who had grown grey much before his time, in consequence of his craftiness, saw at one glance the ruling passion of the great Van Poffenburgh, and humored him in all his valorous fantasies.
The arguments of Wetmore went for something with Mrs. Maybough, though they were mainly admissions to the effect that Ludlow was more of a crank than he had supposed, and would have to be humored in a case of the kind; but it was chiefly the courage and friendship of Mrs. Westley that availed.
In short, there was scarcely any absurdity of the imagination which this once practical man did not permit himself to indulge in, yet always with a certain consciousness that he was allowing his feelings to run away with him, a fact that did not tend to make him better humored, and rather inclined him to place the responsibility of the elopement on somebody else.
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