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Economic motives are the most effective, probably, in our own adult lives, and probably very effective with high-school pupils, but economic motives are not always strong in young children, nor should we wish them to be. It is not always true that the child will approach a school task sympathetically when he knows that the task is an essential preparation for the life that is going on about him.
She laughed merrily, her eyes twinkling, the warm color flushing her face, as was always the case when she was animated. "I suppose it is generally due to one's point of view," she said. "When it concerns myself I can manage very well, but if it is any one else " "A dear brother, for instance," Saunders put in, sympathetically, "and his laudable desire to marry a worthy girl."
The rest of us will not forget it when the plums are being handed around afterward." "Oh, you can depend on me to do the best I can always," commented Mr. Kerrigan, sympathetically. "It's a tough year, but we haven't failed yet." "And me, Chief! That goes for me," observed Mr. Tiernan, raucously. "I guess I can do as well as I have."
It is difficult both to interpret sympathetically the motives and ideals of those who have acquired rules of conduct in experience widely different from our own, and also to take enough care in guarding the gains already made, and in valuing highly enough the imperfect good so painfully acquired and, at the best, so mixed with evil.
She was not troubled that Andrew would not go to church, but offended at the unhesitating decision with which he set her counsel aside. Andrew made her a respectful bow, turned away, put on his bonnet, which he had held in his hand all the time, and passed through the garden gate. "Who is the fellow?" asked George, partaking sympathetically of his companion's annoyance.
The people you were sent to watch sailed for Europe ten days ago. The paper fell from his trembling fingers, but he regained it, natural instinct inspiring a fear that the clerk would read it. "Good Lord!" he gasped. "Bad news, Mr. Rollins?" asked the clerk sympathetically, but the stricken, bewildered man did not answer. What did it mean?
I'm sorry." "He isn't mine," explained Roger; "I only wish he were. If he had been," he added, viciously, "he'd have died a violent death long ago." Little by little, the whole story came out. Allan kept his face straight with difficulty, but Eloise was genuinely distressed. "Don't worry," she said, sympathetically.
As he swayed down through the path that opened for him his crimson back shone in the sun. "Great God!" gasped Nathaniel. He turned to Obadiah and was startled by the appearance of the old man. The councilor's face was ghastly. His mouth twitched and his body trembled. Nathaniel took his arm sympathetically. "Hadn't we better go, Dad?" he whispered. "No no no not yet, Nat.
And she had the cook in to tell her about some aluminium saucepans that we're going to buy to-morrow if we go." "Oh!" He was manifestly relieved. "Well, I suppose it's all right." "Yes, it's all right," she told him pettishly; and then tried to make amends by speaking sympathetically of Marion. "I can understand why your mother thought it would do her good to go out.
She looked sympathetically at a statue which had come there from some park, a Flora, lying on the earth, eaten by black moss, her two arms lying by her sides. She thought of raising her soon, of making of her a centrepiece for a fountain. Dechartre, who for an hour had been watching for her coming, joyful, anxious, trembling in his agitated happiness, descended the steps.
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