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Lord Holland is represented as complaining that the cowardice of his accomplices had prevented him from putting down the free spirit of the city of London by sword and fire, and as pining for the time when birds of prey should make their nests in Westminster Abbey, and unclean beasts burrow in St. Paul's.
"No, but you have behaved mopishly of late, as if you were pining for her return." "I pine for nothing but your love." "That has always been yours." With this assurance Mrs. Winstanley was fain to content herself, but even this assurance did not make her happy.
Now, of course, Rome is necessary to me, and I was already pining to be back at my work so there was one obvious cause of separation. Then, again, her old father turned up at the hotel in London, and there was a scene, and the whole thing became so unpleasant that really though I missed her dreadfully at first I was very glad to slip out of it.
Had she learned that she was the grandchild and natural heiress of a man wealthy and renowned a chief amongst the chiefs of England who rejected her with disdain? Was she pining for her true position? or mortified by the contempt of a kinsman, whose rank so contrasted the vagrancy of the grandsire by whom alone she was acknowledged?
However, he got safely to Brighton, which was only a little village then, and a boat took him to France, where his mother was living. In the meantime, his young sister and brother, Elizabeth and Henry, had been sent to the Isle of Wight, to Carisbrook Castle. Elizabeth was pining away with sorrow, and before long she was found dead, with her cheek resting on her open Bible.
In the cities of Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Cologne, he did not dare to dine at the table d'hôte, lest he should be recognized. The duke had reached Frankfort, when he read the account in the journals of the arrest of his father and brothers. Lafayette, laden with irons, was pining in the dungeons of Olmutz.
He had then deceived himself and others into the belief that the English were regretting him, were pining for him, were eager to rise in arms by tens of thousands to welcome him. William was then, as now, at a distance. Then, as now, the administration was entrusted to a woman. Then, as now, there were few regular troops in England.
She never showed it to anybody, not even to Eunice, but she often took it out, and read it with much satisfaction, and was almost inclined to begin pining away directly. But on the whole they were very contented, and it was much easier for them than if they had been left at Kayuna.
'It's just because o' that husband o' thine as has gone and left thee; thou's pining after him, and he's not worth it. Brunton said, when he heared on it I mind he was smoking at t' time, and he took his pipe out of his mouth, and shook out t' ashes as grave as any judge "The man," says he, "as can desert a wife like Sylvia Robson as was, deserves hanging!" That's what he says! Eh!
I know him; and I feel in my soul that his fate will be to dally with one and another in delights and raptures, till the Saints fulfil my heart's chiefest desire, and he comes to despair and anguish and want, and the scrivener's wench breaks her heart under my very eyes with pining and sheer shame. Away, away, Herdegen Schopper! Go forth to joy and to misery! Go-with your pale black-haired mate.
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