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I answered something about hounds deserving blood: about the way the farmers grumbled when foxes were not killed, and so on; but, woman-like, she stuck to her point and would listen to no argument. "I hope they'll lose him in that cover just ahead," she exclaimed. "Hounds may deserve blood, but such a good fox as this deserves to get away, while as for the farmers well, let them grumble!"
Elizabeth of England had no love of home; and what do we hear of her? That she had a lion-like port; but woman-like, Christian-like, humane, she certainly was not. She passed through life, it is said, without a single friend. She who performs the domestic duties aright, will find time for, as she must have calls and incentives to, Charitable services.
But by this time Thane was half across the road to where Daphne, with penknife and finger-tips, was trying to strip the top layer of blackened sandpaper from her pencil-scrubber; turning her face aside, because, woman-like, she would insist on casting her pencil-dust to windward.
Woman-like, now that she was well into the subject, she was far less embarrassed than Peter. She had had her cry. "Why er considering this work, Cissie " "Aren't you going to marry anybody, Peter?" The artist in Peter, the thing the girl loved in him, caught again that Messianic vision of himself.
Mary Seyton was left alone, admiring that strength of character which made of Mary Stuart, in all other respects so completely woman-like, a man in the hour of danger. She immediately went to the door to close it with the wooden bar that one passed between two iron rings, but the bar had been taken away, so that there was no means of fastening the door from within.
She maintained a subdued demeanor, with an expression about the mouth and eyes of a peculiar timid gentleness, and, as it were, a sort of mental leaning upon me for support and protection. She felt, it may be, a little fear of herself, at finding herself in more senses than one so near to me; and, woman-like, she depended upon me to protect her against the very peril of which I was the occasion.
She, woman-like, said "Adami, we must let well enough alone; we have all we want; let us stay here." But he said: "No, we will go." She followed him, and when they came to this narrow neck of land, he took her upon his back and carried her across. But at the instant he put her down there was a crash, and looking back they discovered that this narrow neck of land had fallen into the sea.
I see now that we have no right to our secret alone; but with the ocean between us, it is best." During those months Priscilla learned to know Helen Travers through Travers's letters. Woman-like, she read between the lines and caught a glimpse of Helen's nobility and simple sweetness. Her loved ones were so sacred to her that no personal demands could ever cause her to raise objections.
And, then, having told her once, perforce he had to tell her again just the end bit. . . . With the tears pouring down her cheeks she listened; and though each word stabbed her to the heart afresh woman-like, she gloried in her pain. "'God bless you, Nell, and then he died," she said softly to herself, repeating Vane's last sentence. "Ah! but you made good, my man.
Gold was in the embroidery that stiffened her trailing skirts; gold was sewn into her gloves, and golden chains twined in her lustrous hair added to the spirited poise of her head a touch of stateliness. No wonder that her mouth curved into a smile as she gazed. "It cannot be denied that I look woman-like now," she murmured. "It is a great boon for me that he likes my hair."
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