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'It is said also that you break the Second Commandment by making representations of things that are on sea and land. 'I would the critics admitted as much, murmured the artist. 'Your grandmother does not understand. She thinks you paint houses which is not forbidden. But I don't undeceive her it would pain her too much. The lover-like sentiment brought back the artist's alarm.
I used to know something about cotton. Now we'll talk. All that day the two paced the deck with the absorbed insolente of lovers; and, lover-like, each would steal away and tell me what a splendid soul was his companion. That was one type; but there were others professional men who did not make or sell things and these the hand of an all-exacting Democracy seemed to have run into one mould.
Ned rose and stood beside her, not attempting any lover-like greetings, but holding her hand tightly in his own. His face was pathetic in its wistfulness, and dread of the pain which he was about to inflict, but it was in the tone of a father speaking to a child that he said gently "I have bad news for you, Lilias the news which I have been dreading.
When he found she had gone, he drew up a big arm-chair, sank back in its depths, put his feet on the fender, and fell to thinking how, by spring, perhaps, he might marry Hetty. In the midst of this lover-like reverie, he fell asleep in the most unlover-like way. He was worn out with his long night's watching. In a few minutes, Hetty came back with hot broth which she had prepared for him.
After her death, which occurred while he was still in England, he never spoke of her to me, though before that he used to be always bringing her name in, with a young lover-like fondness. In the hurry of the London season I did not see so much of Lowell on our second sojourn as on our first, but once when we were alone in his study there was a return to the terms of the old meetings in Cambridge.
A more good-natured, habitually smiling, nerveless expression could hardly be imagined. Bulwer seems to have made up for his appearance by his high spirits, lover-like voice, and delightful conversation, some of which our Boswell has reported. 'Smith asked Bulwer if he kept an amanuensis.
He had no objection to being hooked if the conditions were all right, and until satisfied as to these he would play around at a safe distance. As he saw Mr. Allen daily getting into deeper water, he grew more cautious. His calls were not quite so frequent. He managed never to be with Laura except in company with others, and while his manner was very complimentary it was never exactly lover-like.
'I did nothing. 'Did you see it? 'My uncle showed it to me. 'Then you can tell me what I want to hear, for no one has told me anything. I suppose my uncle is to be guardian? 'No; Lady Morville. 'You don't mean it? Most lover-like indeed. That poor girl to manage that great property? Everything left to her! said Mrs.
In her presence he resolved to show his young wife the most lover-like attentions, and prove to his false mistress that he neither sought nor fled from her that he had utterly forgotten her. But Louise was not deceived by this acting.
The woman in the waiting-room came to the door, and gazed after them as they moved away towards the carriage which stood in waiting. They made a handsome pair, and Hugo looked particularly lover-like as he gave the girl his arm and bent his head to listen to what she had to say. But Kitty's words were not loving; they were only indignant and distressed.
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