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Seldom as he saw her jealously as she was guarded by her father and brother, now returned from the war, and settled again at Woodcrych he did nevertheless from time to time encounter Mistress Joan Vavasour, and each encounter was fraught with a new and increasing pleasure.
Along with these, and concealed behind them, the headman of the "cooroowe," or noosers, crept in, eager to secure the honour of taking the first elephant, a distinction which this class jealously contests with the mahouts of the chiefs and temples.
Feeling my triumph complete, I turned and limped away, still hardly able to realise that only a few hours before I had unknowingly paraded along the same little raised path which the Germans were so jealously guarding. Of all my escapes this was the most inexplicable. To what was it due? Certainly not to my own initiative alone. Man's extremity is indeed God's opportunity.
For a long time she sat with Florence Dombey in her arms, looking from the hectic china face to the scintillating turquoise of the lake and listening to the hushed whispering of the pine. Finally with Adam lumbering jealously after her, she climbed the narrow stairs into the attic. Back under the eaves stood a packing box into which Lydia never had looked.
"Haste, haste, Master Warder!" he cried, beating at the door with his dagger till it opened jealously, "messages of importance to the Lord Warwick. We have the king's signet. Open!" The sleepy warder glanced at the ring; the gates were opened; they were without the fortress, they hurried on.
Gower spoke of starting his legs next day, if he had to do the journey alone: and he clouded the yacht for Fleetwood with talk of the Wye and the Usk, Hereford and the Malvern Hills elliptical over the plains. 'Yes, the earl acquiesced jealously; 'we ought to have seen tramped every foot of our own country.
They will not be subverters of your grand truths; they will simply extend them, and jealously, if they have a reward in what their passions crave. In short, use the proper means for a great end. The end justifies the means."
'I care not, was the reply 'his death causes me no grief, nor pleasure; he was no enemy of mine, and as for friends, I have none. Grief and friendship are sentiments which have long since died in my breast. 'By heavens! exclaimed the Doctor 'I know that voice! The right hand jealously thrust into your breast your face so carefully concealed the dying words of Radcliff tell me that you are
It was her inheritance, that she left you, wherewith to gladden the life that Fate had urged her to darken, and you did it, my little one, though it could never be quite the same." "I loved you, and watched you jealously, God knows I did, but it was not with that other dead love, which shall never be revived on earth.
She especially disliked the lowering of the standard by which to judge a work of fiction, if it proceeded from a feminine pen; and praise mingled with pseudo-gallant allusions to her sex, mortified her far more than actual blame. But the secret, so jealously preserved, was oozing out at last.
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