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The solemn hush fell upon the bruised spirit of the youth with the quieting touch and awe of a palpable presence, rebukingly, yet tenderly and pityingly. Quick to compassionate others, he had ever been relentless to himself, and refused to regard himself as an object of injustice, or as needing compassion.
"Great news! great news!" cried the urchin, imitating his vociferous originals in the street; "all about the famous Captain Lovett, as large as life!" "'Old your blarney, you blattergowl!" said Dummie, rebukingly, and seizing the journal. "Master says as how he must have it to send to Clapham, and can't spare it for more than a 'our!" said the boy, as he withdrew.
"But one way must be easier or better than the other, or else they'd all be one kind," argued Peter. "I want to find the easiest way. And I've got a hankering after the Methodists. My Aunt Jane was a Methodist." "Isn't she one still?" asked Felicity pertly. "Well, I don't know exactly. She's dead," said Peter rebukingly. "Do people go on being just the same after they're dead?"
She is staying with some country people called the Vaynes, people who would have passed, like a third entrée, unnoticed; but they are deluged with invitations, and 'All on account of Eliza." "Do not be vulgar, Bertie," said Howard, rebukingly. "Well it was vulgar" admitted Bertie, "especially applied to such an exquisite creature as Miss Heron Oh there she is with young Glarn!
She drew it away in a moment but not rebukingly. The contact with her hand had been inexpressibly thrilling. Not since his prep school days had he held a girl's hand, and the brook and the stars sang together in ineffable chorus. It was bewildering to find that so trifling an act could afford sensations so charged with all the felicity of forbidden delight.
Brewster, shaking her head rebukingly at the small boy who stood on the rockers of his mother's chair, and gripped hold of the back, and so was roughly swayed back and forth with the rocking. "See har, yuh Jim Henderson Halsey git down from thar! Ef Ah ketch yuh, Ah'll skin yer face fer the hop that Ah will!" threatened the mother, trying to reach her young hopeful.
"Well, my love," said the stock-jobber, "I believe I must be off. "Have not I prayed and besought you, many and many a time, Mr. Copperas," said the lady, rebukingly, "not to call De Warens by his Christian name? Don't you know that all people in genteel life, who only keep one servant, invariably call him by his surname, as if he were the butler, you know?"
"Tut, tut, tut, man! this will never do," said Mr. Colquhoun, rebukingly. "You're not a girl, nor a child, to cry for a sharp word or two. What's wrong?" But he got no answer. Not even when Hugo, spent and exhausted with the violence of his emotion, lifted up his face and asked hoarsely for brandy. Mr.
'It's a beautiful grace, said Barstein rebukingly. 'The glamour of Zion thrown over the prose of diet. 'You're not a Jew? said Tom, with a sudden suspicion. 'Yes, I am, the artist replied with a dignity that surprised himself. 'I should never have taken you for one! said Tom ingenuously. Despite himself, Barstein felt a thrill of satisfaction. 'But why? he asked himself instantly.
"If you cannot perceive what she perceives, that you have already by your own life cut her off from you absolutely and that seeing her will not mend matters while you remain relentless, nothing I can say will convince you." Holder did not speak rebukingly. The utter uselessness of it was never more apparent. The man was condemned beyond all present reprieve, at least.
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