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It's this cussed Pierce libel case that's taking the heart out of him." "Oh!" cried Esmé, on a note of utter dismay. "Why didn't you tell me, Mr. Mac?" "Tell you? What do you know about it?" "Lots! Everything." She fell into silent thoughtfulness. "I supposed that you had heard from Mr. Pierce, or his lawyer, at the office. I must see Hal Mr. Surtaine now. Does he still come to see you?"
I expect we shall be all very much at Sotherton another year. Such a match as Miss Bertram has made is a public blessing; for the first pleasures of Mr. Rushworth's wife must be to fill her house, and give the best balls in the country." Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness, till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed, "Ah! here he is."
Apparently this neatness impressed the girl with a sense of novelty and curiosity; and though she could hardly be said to meditate her mind was not sufficiently awakened for that still, as she stood at the kitchen fire, a slight thoughtfulness deepened the expression of her face, and made it less dull and heavy than it had at first appeared. "I wonder which on 'em does it all.
Thoughtfulness for others; kindliness; the willingness to do your share of the work, and more, too; the habit of making light of all discomforts; cheerfulness under all circumstances; and the determination never to sulk, imagine you are slighted, or find fault with people, conditions, or things.
It is to the professions what pastoral occupations are to the trades. Politics and religion both have something to do with institutions. A mechanical man can play a part in them not very well, but passably well. But the literary man is sheer humanity, with nothing to help him but his thoughtfulness and sensibility.
So Heine, with deeper thoughtfulness, noticed the "intimacy with the trees" of the little wood-gatherer in the Hartz Mountains; soon the child whistled like a linnet, and the other birds all answered him; then he disappeared in the thicket with his bare feet and his bundle of brushwood.
He had ridden over, hoping to meet us, in the idea that some of us would prefer this method of reaching our home. With provident thoughtfulness, he had brought tea, roasted coffee, fresh butter, eggs, etc., lest we should be short of such luxuries in that advanced stage of our journey. His "Good-morning, Madame Johns! How do you dos?" was a pleasant and welcome sound.
But, then, Alfy had never before attended a Hallowe'en Corkis, and probably never would again. Still observant, Katharine saw Aunt Eunice's dear face grow more and more thoughtful, yet with a thoughtfulness in no measure sad. Finally, she left Nathan to Mrs. Clackett's care and hastily crossed the room to Madam's side.
These are slight remembrances; but it is to little familiar things suggestive of the voice, look, manner, never, never more to be encountered on this earth, that the mind first turns in a bereavement. And greater things that are known of him, in the way of his warm affections, his quiet endurance, his unselfish thoughtfulness for others, and his munificent hand, may not be told.
"But I dare say some of them are nice," said Miss Cahere, who evidently thought well of human nature. "Very likely." And Cartoner lapsed into his odd and somewhat disconcerting thoughtfulness. Miss Cahere continued to glance at him beneath her dark lashes dark lashes around blue eyes with a guileless and wondering admiration.
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