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Ah, woman! she whom the Saviour praised so pleasedly, was one who trusted Him for her daughter. What an honour she had! "Be it unto thee even as thou wilt." Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have not you often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them?
The Inspector disdained such futile argument. As the doorman appeared in answer to the buzzer, he directed that the stenographer be summoned at once. "We'll have the confession in due form," he remarked, gazing pleasedly on the three before him. "He's not going to confess," Mary insisted, with spirit. But Burke was not in the least impressed.
On one occasion he was sent in to the wharf, to wait for the captain and bring him to the ship when he came. A crowd of dock-loungers gradually collected, and the youngster who stood erect in the boat, doubtless looking pleasedly conscious of his new uniform and importance, became the object of audible comment upon his personal appearance.
"Don't I lift you up every time?" She laughed pleasedly. "Gallant Punch, you're easily satisfied." "Am I, Judy am I?" I said gently, taking her hand. "Yes," she said, snatching it away. "You are and will be. Go out and get the money." I adjusted my nose thoughtfully. Daphne was, of course, in great evidence.
Between Jim and Tanny was a sort of growing rapprochement, which got on Lilly's nerves. "What the hell do you take that beastly personal tone for?" cried Lilly at Tanny, as the three sat under a leafless great beech-tree. "But I'm not personal at all, am I, Mr. Bricknell?" said Tanny. Jim watched Lilly, and grinned pleasedly. "Why shouldn't you be, anyhow?" he said. "Yes!" she retorted. "Why not!"
We associate our older Parliamentary oratory with an art which keeps the hearer pleasedly expectant rather than dangerously attentive, through an argument which if dwelt upon might prove unsubstantial, secure that it all leads in the end to some great cadence of noble sound.
"March!" he softly exclaimed, and let his gaze rest long on the floor. "I thought really I thought Mr. March was in New York." "So did we all," was the response, and both laughed, without knowing just why. "He ought to have had a delightful time," said Fair. Barbara meditated pleasedly. "Mr.
That was three days ago. And now pleasedly I regarded the original. "May I offer you a cigarette?" I said. When I had lighted it for her: "To-day is Thursday, isn't it?" she said. "That's just what I was going to say." "Yes, I'm sure it is, because last night brother left " "The light on in the kitchen garden, with the result that this morning all the cocks were two hours fast. I know.
The company has had enough of my reading. It will be a change of voice at least." I saw that Adela looked pleasedly expectant. "Pray don't look for much," said Mrs. Armstrong in a pleading tone. "I assure you it is nothing, or at best a mere trifle. But I could not help myself, without feeling obstinate.
'Ye are the branches' brings each individual listener into connection with it. How many of us there are, as there are in every so-called Christian communion, that listen pleasedly, and, in a fitful sort of languid way, interestedly, to the most glorious and most solemn words that come from a preacher's lips, and never dream that what he has been saying has any bearing upon themselves!
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