United States or Martinique ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There was nothing amiss in what he said or the way he said it, but Anne rather resented such a cool taking-for-granted in a complete stranger. Her replies were frosty, and as few as decency required. Nothing daunted, her companion talked on for several minutes, then excused himself and went away. Anne could have sworn there was a twinkle in his eye and it annoyed her. Who was the creature?
She felt happily running though everything the general, easy taking-for-granted of all the old, gentle, inflexible standards of breeding that she had nearly forgotten, down in the heart of the city among her obstreperous, affectionate little foreigners. They had coffee in the long old-fashioned salon parlor, and then Mr. De Guenther straightened himself, and Mrs.
His natural disposition was buoyant. Wallis said that he had never had a mood in his life till the accident. His attitude to his wife became more and more a taking-for-granted affection and dependence. It is to be feared that Phyllis spoiled him badly. But it was so long since she had been needed by any one person as Allan needed her!
They dote upon me," said Miss O'Shaughnessy, with an air of calm taking-for-granted which spoke volumes for the character of the family. Then she began to smile, and the corners of her lips twisted with humorous enjoyment. "I wouldn't be saying that we don't have a breeze now and again, just to vary the monotony; but we admire one another the more for the spirit in us.
She did it very much on the taking-for-granted system. She took for granted that her children were born with the same natural perceptions as herself; that they could recognize, little by little, as they grew into it, the principles of the moral world, reason, right, propriety, as they recognized, growing into them, the conditions of their outward living.
There was an ease about him, a taking-for-granted, that amazed Tharon beyond words. Then he looked frankly at her and began to talk as if he had known her always. "I've come to live in Lost Valley, Miss Last," he said, "for a long while, I think. Wish me luck." "Come here to live?" said Tharon, "a settler? Goin' to homestead?" He shook his head. "No." A quick suspicion seized her.
Whatever her personal disappointment might be, she could never feel that she was alone in the world that among all its teeming millions there was no human being whose happiness depended upon her presence; she had been spared that worst trial to a woman's heart, and Pixie's calm taking-for-granted that she was indispensable to the family circle was the greatest comfort which she could have given.
Oh, for Tom's downright acceptance of a situation her calm taking-for-granted that the sufferer was neither selfish nor cowardly enough to grudge success to others!
Word Of The Day