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But not for Abby's hands would she have given up a single hour when she had washed Jenny's little flannels or dug enchanted garden beds with Harry's miniature trowel. "She used to have a beautiful figure," she said with perfect sincerity. "Well, she's got it still, though she's a trifle too large for my taste.
He was nearly strangled by the clinging arms, and a trifle embarrassed besides; for it was not every day that a strange young lady precipitated herself into his arms and sobbed so violently. That it was a daughter whose acquaintance he was making for the very first time, did not altogether deprive the situation of its strangeness.
Therefore I am encouraged to ask your indulgence, in the name of your previous errors, for the following and any other instances in which I may appear to trifle with strict veracity. There is no such thing as the impossible in our universe!
It is, in truth, no trifle for a working-man who knows want from experience, to face it with wife and children, to endure hunger and wretchedness for months together, and stand firm and unshaken through it all.
He censured him for each and every trifle and constantly reminded him that he brought him up freely; that he was never in his way and that he never beat him. "Other fathers beat fellows like yourself with logs of wood. And I never even touched you with a finger." "Evidently I didn't deserve it," said Foma one day, calmly. Ignat became angry at his son for these words and for the tone.
Madame F That counts for nothing. I do not think so. In the first place, Madame de V.'s beard is not a perennial beard; her niece told me that she sheds her moustaches every autumn. What can a beard be that can not stand the winter? A mere trifle. Madame H A mere trifle that is horribly ugly, my dear.
It seems a trifle all this, but looking back now I feel that we were quite wrong in not telling you." "I found it out." "You knew?" "I went to Vere's room. The poems were on the table with your corrections. I read them." "We ought to have told you." "I oughtn't to have read them, but I did." "A mother has the right " "Not a mother who has resigned her right to question her child.
As for his charming daughters, they had floated majestically into their quarters Miss Rosalind a trifle defiantly, making no secret of her dislike of the whole business; Miss Jill merrily, delighted with the novelty and beauty of this new home, so much more to her mind than the barrack home in India.
I love you enough to find in you alone, in your single esteem, and in your sole tenderness, in the pride and madness of being yours, oblivion and consolation for friendship outraged, faith betrayed, and honor lost. But, Madame, this is a sentiment which you will do well not to trifle with. You should thoroughly understand this.
'Come here, Lamson, said Djama, a trifle nervously; 'bring the soup with you, and some brandy, though I don't think he needs it. Do you understand what he said? 'Yes, replied the professor, coming to the bedside with a cup of soup in one hand and a glass of brandy and water in the ether. Both hands trembled as he set the cup and the glass down on a little table.
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