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He would permit friends outside to send soothing dainties to the sick, or packages of fruit or home comforts to the well; or florists of the city to send bouquets to stand upon the speaker's desk on the Sabbath, for the prisoners to admire, and each received a flower or sprig to carry to his cell as a memento of innocence and purity, and a stimulus to love the Author of such beauty.
Akulina was delighted to learn that there was a prospect of the Count's spending the night in the police-station and she determined that Johann Schmidt should not find her husband before the next day, and that when the partner of her bliss returned presumably pacified by the soothing converse of his friend she would not disturb his peace of mind by any reference to the Count's adventures.
Then he looked anxiously in his face, on which the hand of death was visibly placed. "My poor fellow!" said Ned, in a soothing tone, "you are very ill, I fear. Have you no one to look after you?" "Ill!" replied the sick man, almost fiercely, "I am dying. I have seen death too often, and know it too well, to be mistaken." His voice sank to a whisper as he added, "It is not far off now."
The soothing tenderness of Duncan, however, soon quieted the first burst of her emotions, and she then heard him to the close with undivided attention, if not with composure. "And now, Alice," he added, "you will see how much is still expected of you.
He believes that, even in his unconsciousness, these things must have made an impression upon his mind, and by their soothing influence drawn his thought toward home, otherwise he must have raved about the prison in his delirium, instead of returning to old, happy days.
She paused; she made him lean on her arm; she wiped the drops from his brow; she addressed him in the most soothing tones of pity. The spasm passed away suddenly as it does in neuralgic agonies, and with it any gratitude or any remorse in the breast of the sufferer. "Yes," he said, "I will call on you; but meanwhile I am without a farthing.
If so, he will speedily come to a decision, and then sleep will bring grateful oblivion. Is he thinking joyful thoughts? These will bring a natural feeling of harmony with all things, and that is conducive to speedy sleep? Is he thinking of how he may help others? That is equally soothing to nerves, brain and body, and brings the refreshment of forgetfulness.
"You you're very kind," said Sophie, hating herself because her lip trembled. "My dear," the compelling tone dropped to a soothing gurgle, "d'you suppose I don't know how it feels to come to a strange county country I should say away from one's own people? When I first left the Shires I'm Shropshire, you know I cried for a day and a night. But fretting doesn't make loneliness any better.
The doctor said there was a defect in her frame; she had an internal deformity." Alas! Ellen did not know how much a human being should be able to help, and she herself took much more upon her than she need. There was, nevertheless, something soothing in these sober facts, although they told him nothing about the real thing.
You can devote yourself to soothing my wounded vanity, to say nothing of my broken heart." "Always gibing at me," Dominey grumbled. "Not always," she answered quietly, raising her eyes for a moment. "There was a time, Everard, before that terrible tragedy the last time you stayed at Dunratter when I didn't gibe." "When, on the contrary, you were sweetness itself," he reflected.
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