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"A woman who seems to care for nothing at all, as you may say." "She is melancholy, then?" inquired Clym. "She mopes about by herself, and don't mix in with the people." "Is she a young lady inclined for adventures?" "Not to my knowledge." "Doesn't join in with the lads in their games, to get some sort of excitement in this lonely place?" "No." "Mumming, for instance?" "No.
He fairly idolizes her. The servants have told him she mopes around and is getting thin and pale. He is afraid she will come down with the fever, too. He told me to use any stratagem I liked to get her there. But I think it's better to tell you frankly how matters stand. It will do the child good to have a change, Elizabeth, and I solemnly think you ought to let her go, for a week at least."
Traveller thought, as the eye surveyed him with a very obvious curiosity in ascertaining the effect they produced, "Vanity, vanity, vanity! Verily, all is vanity!" "What is your name, sir, and where do you come from?" asked Mr. Mopes the Hermit with an air of authority, but in the ordinary human speech of one who has been to school. Mr. Traveller answered the inquiries.
I'm not a-going to take anybody's cast-offs, Mr. Reuben!" "I hope you are not angry with, me for that, Nora? It was natural I should prefer to dance with your sister. I belong to her like, you know. Don't be mad with me," said Reuben meekly. "Nonsense, Rue! you know I was joking. Make Hannah dance; it will do her good; she mopes too much," laughed Nora.
Its centre object was a dwelling-house, sufficiently substantial, all the window-glass of which had been long ago abolished by the surprising genius of Mopes, and all the windows of which were barred across with rough-split logs of trees nailed over them on the outside.
"Men and women call themselves superior beings; but, upon my word, I think they are vastly inferior to us. Now, look at that man, and see how he wastes his life. There never was any one with a better chance for doing good, and being happy; and yet he mopes and dawdles his time away most shamefully."
Fandango and feast, "baile" and rejoicings, have made the woodland echoes ring. The growing Dolores mopes in the lonely mansion. She demands her absent father daily. Before the troopers of Lagunitas return with their humbled chieftain, a squad of mounted American volunteers ride up and take possession.
"Peter knows better than that." "Well, all I hope is that he'll wash behind his ears," said Felicity resignedly. "How is Pat to-day?" asked Cecily, by way of changing the conversation. "Pat isn't a bit better. He just mopes about the kitchen," said the Story Girl anxiously. "I went out to the barn and I saw a mouse. I had a stick in my hand and I fetched a swipe at it so. I killed it stone dead.
The child is getting no good here: she's drooping." "Drooping?" "Yes. Don't you see how she mopes about?" "I'm afraid that I have noticed." He was going to ask why she was drooping; but he could not. He said, recurring to the letter of the overseers, "So Patmos is a city." "Of course it is by this time," said his wife, "with all that prosperity!"
"Anima mia," said the pupil of Machiavelli, disguising in the tenderest words the cruellest intentions, for one of his most cherished Italian proverbs was to the effect that there is no getting on with a mule or a woman unless you coax them, "Anima mia, soul of my being, you have already seen that Violante mopes herself to death here." "She, poor child! Oh, no!"
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