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So you see, I'm not a butterfly but just a working girl on her vacation. Have I lost caste?" Needless question! As she asked it, her chin her prettiest feature, cleanly molded, curving gently back to the soft throat went up spiritedly. He caught a picture of a struggle far more cruel than her light words implied. A wave of protest swept over him, of tender protectiveness.
"I sometimes wonder whether women have any idea what some men, many men, I believe, seek in women." "What do they seek?" "What do those maidens that hold up the Porch suggest to you?" "All that's calm without a touch of coldness, and strong without a touch of hardness, and noble without a touch of pride, and obedient without a touch of servility." "Brave sweetness, too, and protectiveness.
"I'm terribly nervous!" she said, in an irresistibly feminine voice. The effect upon her hearer was instantaneous. The distant and spiritual aloofness, so easy to assume in the presence of the credulous, became suddenly a matter of impossibility. With a quiet dignity that had more of masculine protectiveness than of mystical inspiration he turned to her afresh.
Janet was immeasurably the stronger of the two, but Eda possessed the masculine trait of protectiveness, the universe never bothered her, she was one of those persons called fortunate to whom the orthodox Christian virtues come as naturally as sun or air.
Honest, I was knocked plumb silly much as I knew about Bud that you never knew, I never thought he'd turn out quite so " Joe paused, with a perfect imitation of distaste for his subject. "Say, this is great, out here," he murmured, tucking the robe around her with that tender protectiveness which stops just short of being proprietary. "Honest, Marie, do you like it?" "Why, sure, I like it, Joe."
Tutt's breast swelled with an emotion which he was forced to admit was not altogether avuncular that curious sentimental mixture that middle-aged men feel of paternal pity, Platonic tenderness and protectiveness, together with all those other euphemistic synonyms, that make them eager to assist the weak and fragile, to try to educate and elevate, and particularly to find out just how weak, fragile, uneducated and unelevated a helpless lady may be.
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy. Deronda's love for Mirah was strongly imbued with that blessed protectiveness.
Janet was immeasurably the stronger of the two, but Eda possessed the masculine trait of protectiveness, the universe never bothered her, she was one of those persons called fortunate to whom the orthodox Christian virtues come as naturally as sun or air.
His voice held all the tenderness of the lover, and all the protectiveness of the husband and all the agony of a father but Chip managed to keep it firm and even for all that. He lifted the Little Doctor bodily from the saddle, held her very close in his arms for a minute, kissed her twice and pushed her gently through the gate.
To be doing things for him, making him as comfortable as possible, to find occupation for him as one does for the convalescent, to hover about him, showering him with manifestations of her love and woman's protectiveness it had stirred the mother in her, and in the depths of her sorrow there had been a sublime joy. Now she could not see her way ahead.
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