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"You look more animated than I have seen you for many a day. What has come over you? What is the special something you have found?" "Myself." "Yourself!" "That's just it. I'm through with this job." The editor eyed the young man curiously yet sympathetically. He was to him as a son, and he had done everything in his power to help him since his return from the war.
Their characterisations are like the slight outlines in the background of some great artist's canvas: a touch of the brush is all that is spared for each, and yet, if we like to look sympathetically, they live before us.
Biggs says that papa's is a high-strung, nervous disposition which at times makes the taking of of a little alcohol absolutely necessary. And that the the stimulant is liable to upset him. It is entirely a nervous trouble, and in a few days, with perfect rest, he will be well again." Mr. Hapgood nodded gravely, sympathetically. "Mr.
Owen, Miss, has rebelled against me authority and has refused me drink." "That is an outrage, Mr. Boyd. They do not realize how your nerve-racking adventures have shattered your strength. I will attend to it myself," said Pauline sympathetically. "Filipo, give Mr. Boyd a drink." "Drink? Yes, meem," replied Filipo, with such unwonted alacrity that Pauline turned in surprise.
"Why's he walk funny?" persisted William. "Has he hurt his legs?" "Yus," said Blake with a wink. "'E 'urt 'em at the Blue Cow comin' 'ere." Mr. Jones' sheepish smile broadened into a guffaw. "Well, you rest," said William sympathetically. "You lie down on the sofa an' rest. I'll help, so's you needn't do anything!" Mr. Jones grew hilarious. "Come on!" he said. "My eye!
The elderly servitor, who had never had reason given to him to believe that young Mr. Barter was above the reasonable attached to his father, was a little surprised to see the young man so moved. He drew the door gently after him, and came out upon the steps. 'I'm afraid, Mr. John, he murmured sympathetically, 'that it's practically all over, sir.
"You're tired!" said the Turkey Mogul, almost sympathetically; "and hungry!" he subjoined, quickly, in a different tone. I knew by this time that the Turkey Mogul's eyes were dangerously prone to have twinkles in the corners of them, yet I believe I met their derisive questioning with a simple seriousness in my own. "Well, that's right!" he exclaimed. "Stick to 'em! Stick to 'em!
He looked then with even more interest on the pretty little creature in dark-blue velvet and swansdown, careless, unconscious, happy, as the child of a mystery and a tragedy in one. "Ah!" he said sympathetically. "Come to me, little one," again, coaxingly. Fina, with her finger in her mouth, went up to him half shyly, half boldly, and wholly prettily.
"It will only take a couple, and it won’t hurt us." MacFife had arrived to hear the last exchange. He nodded sympathetically. "Doctor, I can appreciate how the lad feels. He started something and he wants to finish it. If y’can let him, safely, I think ye should." The doctor shrugged. "I can let him. There’s a nine to one chance it will do him no harm. But the one chance is what I don’t like."
Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment, is happily reminiscent of a satisfactory luncheon and blessedly expectant of an elaborate dinner to come.
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