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"Have I said something awkward? I live very far out of the world, you know. But I didn't mean that you would exactly fade dim, even if Bartley were here." Mrs. Alexander laughed relentingly. "Oh, I'm not so vain! How terribly discerning you are." She looked straight at Wilson, and he felt that this quick, frank glance brought about an understanding between them.
She advanced relentingly as her father came up behind. "W'y a stranger?" cried the section-boss. She stopped him. "Yes, but we wouldn't turn a dog away to-night, dad." She motioned David Bond to enter. As he crossed the sill, Dallas, for the first time, caught a glimpse of the white horse and the pung, and saw Squaw Charley lifting his load of chips from the wagon-box.
Westover said, "Thank you," as he dropped on the log, and Whitwell added, relentingly: "I don't suppose a fellow's so much to blame, if he's got the devil in him, as what the devil is." He referred the point with a twinkle of his eyes to Westover, who said: "It's always a question, of course, whether it's the devil. It may be original sin with the fellow himself."
SQUIRE. "Eh!" RANDAL. "We have grown very intimate." SQUIRE. "So he writes me word, and I am glad of it. Our member, Sir John, tells me you are a very clever fellow, and a very steady one. And Frank says that he wishes he had your prudence, if he can't have your talent. He has a good heart, Frank," added the father, relentingly.
She didn't think he would. He came back. "Is the little child crying?" he asked, relentingly, as he took the pretty fingers, one by one, away from the youthful face, hard as she tried to keep them there. At last she gave up, and broke into a merry laugh. "You little hypocrite!" said her husband, in rather an incensed tone of voice men do hate to be gulled into soothing a laughing wife.
You're twice the trouble that my own family is, now. But I know what I'd do, mighty quick, if it wasn't for you, Zerrilla," he went on relentingly. "I'd shut your mother up somewheres, and if I could get that fellow off for a three years' voyage " "I declare," said Miss Dewey, beginning to whimper, "it seems as if he came back just so often to spite me.
"'Wilt delay the nuptials until I am eighteen and the castle is set in order? asks the Lady Nancibel relentingly. "'Since it must be, I do pledge thee my vow to wait, says the Knight. 'And I do beg the fair one with the golden locks to consider the claims of my brother, not my equal perhaps, but still a gallant youth.
She having children of her own, he offers mysteriously to put some of his own children "out of the way," if necessary, a hint which becomes formidable when one remembers that he was the author of that once famous theological poem, "The Day of Doom," in which he relentingly assigned to infants, because they had sinned only in Adam, "the easiest room in hell."
"Not a handsome boy, exactly," people said, "but," and here people would smile relentingly, "if he had been a girl, one would certainly quite have said 'pretty' so attractive-looking, and so so clean!" which might seem to be the condemnation of faint praise, but was, in reality, merely the tribute that Larry's new-minted goldenness of aspect startled from the beholder.
They may be coarse in their talk, an' a' that sort o' thing; but they are as kind-hearted as onybody else, an' kinder than some." "Oh; I hae nae doot," she answered relentingly. "I didna mean that at a'; but the pit-head doesna make them ony better, an' it's no' wark for them at a'."
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