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Not once was the bell rung; not once did my fluttering heart answer to footsteps in the passage. I had no need to start up at the opening of the parlour-door, and to greet, as distinctly as the joyous tumult of my bosom would suffer me, the much-loved, long-expected visitant.
They occupied thirty miles of the finest bottom lands with their timber; except for these wooded river bottoms, the country is all treeless prairie. They were all Presbyterians and devout church-goers. Rev. John P. Williamson was their much-loved missionary; and their church was served for many years by a native pastor my brother, Rev. John Eastman. Nearly all built good homes. Mr.
On some pretence of justice, that is not very easily to be understood, those who had property there already were not to have shares in the new lottery; a lottery, by the way, in which the prizes were about twice as large as those which had originally been distributed among the colonists. But, Mark and Bridget endeavoured to forget everything unpleasant in this visit to their much-loved home.
Nance looked upon him merely as a part of the mines, and therefore to be detested along with the noisy engine-house, the pumps, the damp and dirty miners, and all the rest of it the coming of which had so completely spoiled her much-loved Sark. Tom disliked him because he made him feel small and boorish, and of a commoner make.
I hope and trust in the mercy of God, that all will be right, and that in a few minutes you will be in the arms of your much-loved wife; but still, in proportion as you allow your hopes to be raised, so will you inevitably have them crushed should disappointment cross your path.
Methought I could embrace him as a father, and entrance into his house appeared like return to a long-lost and much-loved home. My desolate and lonely condition appeared to be changed for paternal regards and the tenderness of friendship. These emotions were confirmed and heightened by every object that presented itself under this roof. The family consisted of Mrs.
Yet all these years there was one person who knew the secret the woman who as a school-girl had placed the wreath of immortelles on Beethoven's grave for her much-loved Countess Therese Brunswick.
No one paid any more attention to the music, no one noticed that the overture was ended and that the curtain was raised. Amid the blast of trumpets, the noise of violins and clarionets, the public had heard the light noise of the opening doors, had noticed the entrance of the officers, and this sound had made the Parisians forget even their much-loved music.
Apropos of the hat: 'You know my forehead is square, so that an oval hat does not fit; it would hang on by the temples, which form a kind of right angle with the forehead. Another letter of that 26th was from the Bishop of Wellington to Dr. Goodford respecting this much-loved old pupil:
Once more, let me turn from the living to the dead; and I will conclude with the prayer of the Church 'Eternal rest give to him, O Lord; and may a perpetual light shine upon him! May he rest in peace! The Right Hon. Mrs. Hawarden: Sept. 13, 1873. My Dear Miss Hope-Scott, I found awaiting me, through your kindness, on my return from Scotland, Dr. Newman's Address on your much-loved father's death.
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