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Murdstone's cruel neglect, Florence Dombey pining for her father's love, the Marchioness starving upon cold potatoes, Tom and Louise Gradgrind, stuffed with facts and allowed no innocent amusement, and the waifs of Tom's-All-Alone dying from abject poverty and disease, are only a few of the sad-eyed children peering from the pages of Dickens and yearning for love and understanding.
"Stonewall Jackson? Valley of Virginia?" "Valley of Virginia! I know! saw it once. God's country." At New Orleans, on the levees, in the hot streets, under old balconies and by walled gardens, six thousand men in blue under Butler watched, and a sad-eyed captive city watched. From the lower Mississippi, from the blue waters of the Gulf, from the long Atlantic swells, the ships looked to the land.
But there was Hay he hadn't seen him at work for a long time perhaps he would be anxious enough for work to do it cheaply. The Deacon knocked at Hay's door, and Hay himself shouted: "Come in." "How are ye, George," said the Deacon, looking hastily about the room, and delightfully determining, from the patient face of sad-eyed Mrs.
Crowds followed the cab, cheering it lustily; charming girls scaled it to get his autograph; interviews appeared in the better class of papers, and society invited him to dinner and added, "Do come in the kennel." On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nursery awaiting George's return home; a very sad-eyed woman.
Of Aggie's past enthusiasm they said that it was nothing but a pose. Time had revealed her, the sunken soul of patience and of pathos, the beast of burden, the sad-eyed, slow, and gray. The spirit of the place, too, had departed, leaving a decomposing and discolored shell. The beloved yellow villa had disclosed the worst side of its nature.
Thereafter he sighed amain and smote his bosom, and smiling upon Beltane sad-eyed, spake: "Most excellent, tall, and sweet young sir, I, who Love's lorn pilgrim am, do give thee woeful greeting and entreat now the courtesy of thy pity." "And wherefore pity, sir?" quoth Beltane, sitting up. "For reason of a lady's silver laughter.
The presence of this grey-faced, silent, sad-eyed man was getting on his nerves. "The gold and the things stolen from the bank will be here in a few minutes; Brennan is bringing them." "And the deeds Mrs. Burke's deeds? Have you no trace of them?" "They are returned to the owner." "But they ought to be here. The Bank advanced money on them." "I am sorry. I cannot help it now.
He was very proud, this arrogant product of the old Briton blending and the new world's new northwest, and he lacked the sense which comes with experience in the bearings of a life all novel, and so he remained silent, and, incidentally, hungry. It was at this period of his career that Harlson was in closest sympathy with the sad-eyed Hindoo king.
Lawrence's jokes were either not heard or were received with sad-eyed contortions of the face that were less like a smile than the premonition of a sneeze. The strain was so great that as they were having their coffee a sudden clatter in the street came as an immense relief. The air was instantly filled with the subdued noise of the different members of the household taking their various places.
"I might have known" Doctor Tom made his reflections aloud, "that a good big husky man wouldn't have a chance with a good big husky girl while a sickly, sad-eyed, spindle-shanked son of a gun was hanging round!" "There's nothing in that, I should think you'd know," said Aurora, quickly. "I like him, of course, and I like to have him round. Haven't you found him good company yourself?
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