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Updated: June 19, 2025
I will bring it when I come from my office at night; and meanwhile, my dear, I would suggest that you should get ready to go. My wife will be here very shortly. Immediately thought was diverted into another channel, and a great wistfulness stole over her. 'And what, she asked in a low voice, 'what will become of Walter? 'Has he not told you what his future is likely to be?
Caleb Brent, looking twenty years older than when Donald had seen him last, sat in an easy chair by the window, gazing with lack-luster eyes out across the bight. He was hopelessly crippled with rheumatism, and his sea-blue eyes still held the same lost-dog wistfulness. "Hello, Caleb!" Donald greeted him cordially. "I've just cleaned up the Sawdust Pile for you.
West's silence seemed to express tacit agreement with this assertion. "Anyway," she resumed, making a wry face, "it's done. You are not vexed because I made such a fuss?" There was an odd wistfulness in her tone. West, busy bandaging, did not raise his eyes. "I don't blame you for that," he said. "It must have hurt you infernally! If you take my advice, you will show it to a doctor."
The nose was short and high; the line of the chin deflected, giving an expression of wistfulness to the face in certain aspects. Her father was still bent in examination of the photograph when she entered.
So I thought, and looked again to see the wistfulness: the smile had gone, the pearls seemed heavier. Was it a trick of the artist? had he seen what I saw, or thought I saw? or was it that imagination which by now I might have learned to suspect and distrust. Wild longings took possession of me, for the portrait had seemed to emphasize at once how distant now she was from me, and yet how near!
But now Ebbo saw her standing as near as she durst, with a sweet wistfulness in her eyes, such as he had never seen there before. "What is it, Thekla?" he said. "Art sent to call me?" "No; only I saw that you stayed here all alone," she said, clasping her hands. "Must I not be alone, child?" he said, bitterly. "Here lies my brother. My mother has her husband again!"
I used to see their eyes sparkling with light in the sunshine grow liquid and dreamy in the mellow radiance of the October moon, and turn upon me with a vague wistfulness most lovely to behold, and most admirably feigned!
She pressed his arm. "Dick, we might never have met but for that." "Oh, we might have met," he said. "But you'd probably have detested me under any other circumstances." She smiled at him with a touch of wistfulness. "And you me, Dick. Neither of us would have looked below the surface if we'd met in the general hurly-burly. We shouldn't have had time.
She turned her eyes toward him now with a certain wistfulness; but though Ramon chanced to be looking toward her she got no answering light in his eyes, no careful little signal that his heart was yearning for her. He seemed remote, as indifferent to her as were any of the others dulled by accustomedness to her constant presence among them.
'I will throttle you for good, I corrected myself. 'I was on the threshold of great things, he pleaded, in a voice of longing, with a wistfulness of tone that made my blood run cold. 'And now for this stupid scoundrel 'Your success in Europe is assured in any case, I affirmed steadily.
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