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The eyes of the one said: "Now, let us hear what you will answer!" while the other strove to maintain that calmness which comes to some people in a moment of danger. The Baroness grew a little pale, and then said, in her softest tones: "You are quite right, 'mon ami', but Jacqueline, I think, prefers to stay." "I decidedly prefer to stay," said Jacqueline.
He came over in what seemed to be his softest and most catlike mood, rubbing his hands over his chest in a constant glee at his own jokes. He was amiability itself to Laura. But he, too, had his twenty minutes alone with Augustina; and afterwards Mrs. Fountain ventured once more to speak to Laura of change and amusement.
I seem to be so bound to my Creator that if I gave my body to be burned I could not satisfy the great mercy which I and my cherished sons and daughters have received. All this I tell you that you may not conceive bitterness; but may feel an unspeakable delight, with softest gladness; and that you and I may begin to sorrow over my imperfection, because so great a good was hindered by my sin.
After the evening meal, as soon as the dress was thoroughly dry, it was reversed and a pile of wood gathered for the purpose of replenishing the fire during the night. The softest place to the windward of the fire was selected for a bed, the suit donned, his alarm clock wound, hatchet and arms placed on the deck of the Baby near at hand in case of danger.
And with another kiss, Polly went away to sit in the darkness of her own room, playing her softest airs till the tired eyes below were shut, and little Jane seemed to float away on a sea of pleasant sounds, into the happier life which had just dawned for her.
The small moth-fly appears early in the summer, and should always be destroyed when seen, as the moth is produced from the eggs which they deposit in woollens; by being careful to kill them when they first come, a house may be kept nearly clear of them. Select the softest brooms for sweeping carpets, as stiff ones wear them out. House Linen.
The situation thrilled both, after a fortnight of thrills. "I wish Desmond could see us now!" said Osborn. "I wish Julia could." "I think we should convert 'em." Osborn sat on the hearthrug with shoulders against Marie's knees. One of her hands stole round his neck and he held it there; he knew it was the softest small hand in the world; he had no misgivings about it and its tasks.
Such, I believe, is generally admitted to be the explanation of the universal habit of every dog before lying down to turn round two or three times and scratch its intending bed even when that bed is of the softest woollen or silk apparently to ascertain that no snakes or thorns lurk in its sleeping-place.
"I have kept your appointment, sir," she said, "although I fear I am very wrong." "My appointment," muttered the cavalier in English, "Come, I like that." However, he added in the softest tones he could assume "Fear nothing, princess, I am not a dangerous man." She thought he was, though, for as he said this he chuckled.
In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries with which every part of the island is indented. No sooner has the eider duck made her nest than she lines the inside of it with the softest down from her breast.
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