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"Even so, sweet sister, learning dearer lore and lovelier tales than even Provence could instil; 'tis not the land, it is the heart where poesie dwells," rejoined Nigel Bruce, gayly, advancing from the side of Agnes, where he had been lingering the greater part of the dialogue between his sister and the countess, and now joined them.
"I agree with you," remarked Marion. "Charlotte, Miss Virginia is standing at the door. I know she is distracted over your absence," said Norah, entering. "She knows I am here, but I mustn't stay," she rose regretfully. Francis accompanied her. "And so you think your Miss Carpenter is lovelier than mine?" he remarked, as they crossed the street.
Many such there are, Fair ferns and flowers and chiefly that tall fern, So stately, of the Queen Osmunda named: Plant lovelier, in its own retired abode On Grasmere's beach, than Naiad by the side Of Grecian brook or Lady of the Mere, Sole sitting by the shores of old romance.
Why then should we go through life with silent lips, or lips which open only for criticism while all the time love is really in our hearts? Is it not lovelier and kinder to express our love while the loved ones are here to listen?" This had been Miss Richards's philosophy of life. It had been her love as well as Hester's which had brightened and developed Debby Alden.
It was the only littleness she had observed in O'Hara so far this reluctance to hide his smaller lights under a bushel and in its place, it was amusing. Here was an obvious instance where nature unassisted by training appeared to fall short. "They couldn't be lovelier if you'd gone all over the world," she responded sincerely.
In a moment she had run to where he was lying, his hand clutching the cold barrel of the pistol which he had found in the sand, his white face looking up at her. Again he found himself staring into the glow of her eyes, and in that pale light which precedes the coming of stars and moon the fancy struck him that she was lovelier than in the full radiance of the sun.
Her recital of the family annals became disconnected; she paused to take off and rub her eyeglasses and presently asked, in extenuated tones, if this were the usual path to the laurel. "It's the one I always take, dear Mrs. Potts; it's the one I wanted Sir Basil to see, it's so far the lovelier.
Days even in the middle of winter, and sometimes weeks, descend as it were from heaven to fill the soul with delight; and a lovely day in Rome is lovelier than under any other sky on earth. But just when foreigners go away in crowds, the weather is settling into the perfection of spring, and then it is that Rome is most charming.
The Princess in her own home was even lovelier than she had been in Paris, and charitably allowed us to have one night's rest before meeting the family. About three o'clock in the morning I was awakened by a mournful chant, all in minor, which began beneath my windows and receded, growing fainter and fainter, until at last it died away.
As for the bride, she looked as lovely as it is the right and duty of all brides to look even lovelier than the most; and the groom was the very prince of bridegrooms so all the maiden guests declared.
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