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In epigrammatic power she resembled Kinglake; but while his acrid sayings were emitted with gentlest aspect and with softest speech; while, like Byron's Lambro: "he was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought,"
"They told me that you are busy," she said, "Just as if it mattered whether you were busy or not, when I wanted to see you." "You must go away now, Beth," the cripple said, in his softest and most tender manner. "Don't you see that I am talking with this gentleman?" The girl turned eagerly to Gurdon; she crossed the room with a swift, elastic step, and laid her two hands on him.
Varney replied, "A poet, madam, might call it a thread from the golden web wrought by Minerva; but to my thinking it was paler than even the purest gold more like the last parting sunbeam of the softest day of spring." "Why, you are a poet yourself, Master Varney," said the Queen, smiling. "But I have not genius quick enough to follow your rare metaphors.
She loves to twine her tresses and to make them exhale the most attractive scents; to brush her rosy nails, to trim them to an almond shape, and frequently to bathe her delicate limbs. She is not satisfied to spend the night excepting on the softest down, and excepting on hair-cushioned lounges, she loves best to take a horizontal position.
Such an unaffected bashfulness, and so modest a blush; such an harmonious and meaning tone of voice, that expressed in the softest accents, the most delicate sense and the most winning simplicity, could not but engage the attention of a swain so versed in the science of the fair as Roderic.
Mrs. Berry inquired. "None for this. I know it's wrong to cry when I am so happy. I hope he will forgive me." Mrs. Berry vowed her bride was the sweetest, softest, beautifulest thing in life. "I'll cry no more," said Lucy. "Leave me, Mrs. Berry, and come back when I ring." She drew forth a little silver cross, and fell upon her knees to the bed. Mrs. Berry left the room tiptoe.
He could not keep his eyes from stealing glimpses at her hair when her head was bowed a little. She had smoothed it tonight until it was like softest velvet, with rich glints in it, and the amazing thought came to him that it would be sweetly pleasant to touch with one's hand. The discovery was almost a shock. Keok and Nawadlook had beautiful hair, but he had never thought of it in this way.
Oh if I could but save them in time from those gripes of conscience that will pull them to pieces on the softest and the most fragrant bed that shall ever be made for them on earth! It will be well with them if they do not lie down torn to pieces on their bed in hell, and curse the day they first plashed down into their youthful hands the vine of Sodom.
They would be married as soon as Magsie and his mother could get back with the necessities. And then would he drink his milk, good boy and go straight to sleep, good boy. Then to-morrow he should be helped into the softest motor car procurable for money, and into the private car that his mother and Magsie meant to engage, by hook or crook, to-night.
We have all sorts of new remedies, but I prefer that the boys should experiment with them. 'It's the softest seat here, too, grumbled Margery. 'We must get the boys to cut these bushes down. Why, you haven't any book, you lazy Polly. Are you going to sleep, or shall you chatter and prevent our reading? 'Neither, she answered.
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