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She waited, as if to test whether any of the circle of kindly-natured people to which she belonged really loved her, for some one of the elders or the children to accost her; but Eleasar's little ones were pressing around their grandparents, and she had never understood how to make herself agreeable to children.
But cases, unhappily, were not unknown in which one or other of the tipsy combatants in his sober moments possibly an honourable and kindly-natured man thrust suddenly and without warning, giving his opponent small time to draw, or even, perhaps, to rise from his chair, a course of action which, even under the easy moral code of those days, was accounted as murder.
He had lived in the Antilles for over forty years and knew as much about the people as he did about the plant life. Kindly-natured, the old botanist became greatly interested in his young patient, and, that he should not weary in enforced idleness, sent to Bridgetown for Stuart's trunk and his portable typewriter.
She was now employed as daily governess in the family of a city tradesman people, who though they were kindly-natured enough, had as much as they could do in keeping their own fortunes afloat without giving any substantial aid to others, and who had therefore engaged her at the lowest possible salary, such as was barely sufficient to keep her and her son from absolute want.
We had a spell with them, rather unexpectedly, on a recent "first day" "Christian Brethren" always call Sunday the first day. And it came about in this way: we were on the point of entering a Dissenting place of worship, when a kindly-natured somewhat originally-constituted "pillar of the Church" intercepted our movements, and said, "You mustn't come here today."
In spite, however, of these flights of religious romanticism, Christina was a good-tempered kindly-natured girl enough, who, if she had married a sensible layman we will say a hotel-keeper would have developed into a good landlady and been deservedly popular with her guests. Such was Theobald's engaged life.
I knew what sundry kindly-natured persons would say, in the event of my returning to England empty-handed, were I to lead the steadiest life possible. "Here is Frank Lorton back again like a bad penny!" they would sneer. "Reformed from all his wild ways, eh? Really, Mrs Grundy, you must not expect us to believe that!
Danny's lips moved, and the audience, interpreting the unheard words to be those of a kindly-natured sport, yelled again. Only Rivera heard the low words. "You little Mexican rat," hissed from between Danny's gaily smiling lips, "I'll fetch the yellow outa you." Rivera made no move. He did not rise. He merely hated with his eyes. "Get up, you dog!" some man yelled through the ropes from behind.
She waited, as if to test whether any of the circle of kindly-natured people to which she belonged really loved her, for some one of the elders or the children to accost her; but Eleasar's little ones were pressing around their grandparents, and she had never understood how to make herself agreeable to children.
Once or twice she dragged him in triumph to the Desmonds, a reluctant dishevelled hero, and 'showed him off' to that little company of well-groomed, kindly-natured soldiers, with a naïve simplicity that went to Honor's heart.
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