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I fancied that she smiled, not unkindly, and I ventured to pass the time of day. She replied not altogether disapprovingly. She sat down by the dressing-table and took up some needlework which she had obviously thrown aside on my arrival. Close by, on the floor, was a solid iron chest with huge ornamental hinges and a large escutcheon over the lock.
It's no good having more words about it, and I expect we should have plenty more words if I wait till the child comes upstairs again." She did not speak unkindly, and Bunting looked at her rather wonderingly. Ellen very seldom spoke of Daisy as "the child" in fact, he could only remember her having done so once before, and that was a long time ago.
"Not so," said Walter, bitterly, "the advice of a friend is only meanness." "Come, come, forgive me; pray, do not let us part unkindly. When did we ever quarrel before? I was wrong, grievously wrong I will perform any penance you may enjoin." "Agreed then, follow my admonitions." "Ah! any thing else," said Madeline, gravely, and colouring deeply.
He wondered what her connection with the two youths was, and perhaps his face showed something of his wonder, for Cuckoo added, after a long glance at him: "It's true; yes, it is," as if she read his doubts. "How do you come to know it?" the doctor said, not at all unkindly, but as if anxious to elucidate matters. "Why, I tell you I can see it plain.
She had a dark wrapper and an old gray shawl on her arm. "Go," she said, not unkindly, and laid them on the bed; "Go to your child." The woman caught at her hand with a sob, but she withdrew it hastily and went back to her baby's crib.
To be born for each other is, obviously, to be lovers. Well, not to be born for each other is to be bores. In future, let us not speak unkindly of the tame bore, let us say 'We were not born for each other. Relations do not, perhaps, invariably suggest the first line of 'Endymion'; indeed, they are, one fears, but infrequently celebrated in song.
The marquis paid little attention to the men; it was the feminine portion of the audience that interested him, and he regarded it with a gloating leer, the expression of a senile satyr. Albeit a little on the seamy side of life, his rank and wealth were such that he himself attracted a good deal of attention, matronly eyes being turned in his direction with not unkindly purport.
And this I felt so unkindly, that I smote him straightway in the face without tarrying to consider it, or weighing the question duly. Upon this he put his head down, and presented it so vehemently at the middle of my waistcoat, that for a minute or more my breath seemed dropped, as it were, from my pockets, and my life seemed to stop from great want of ease.
One could not help smiling at the incongruity of it; it was farcical. Finally gathering the full import of it all, I ventured to laugh, and he turned on me with a sharp and yet not unkindly retort. "Ha! ha! ha!" he mocked. "If ye had to work as hard as these min, ye wouldn't laugh." I wanted to say, "Hard work, indeed!" but instead I replied, "Is that so?
Moreover, unkindly as he took to hero worship, he took still more unkindly to visits that quite obviously were intended to console him. "The Lord knows how long I'm destined to be lying up here," he remarked to Olive Keltridge, after one such visitation. "Anyhow, it is sure to be long enough for people to get the habit of me, and a chronic invalid is bound to be used as a spiritual salve.
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