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The young romancière who in 1725 could write, "Love is a Topick which I believe few are ignorant of ... a shady Grove and purling Stream are all Things that's necessary to give us an Idea of the tender Passion," had in a quarter of a century learned much worldly wisdom, and her heroine likewise is too sophisticated to be moved by the style of love-making that warmed the susceptible bosoms of Anadea, Filenia, or Placentia.
"Here you have purling rills and cascades, and fish-ponds so redundant with the finny tribe, that you have but to wish for sport, and it is yours; here you have in the mansion, chambers that vie with the accommodation of a palace ample dormitories and halls of ancient grandeur; here you have " "Stop," said the baron, "stop; I cannot be pestered in this way with your description.
Purling gave her favourites a liberal allowance, and promised them everything when she was gone, yet was she like a crustacean in the tenacity of her grip upon her own. This close-fistedness was exceedingly distasteful to Mr. Jillingham. He had an appetite for gold not easily appeased, and four or five thousand a year was to him but a mouthful to be swallowed at one gulp.
"Trust a girl to find out whether she's appreciated. Mr. Purling, for my sins, positively dislikes me; or else he has seen some one already to whom he has given his heart." Mrs. Purling shook her head sadly, remembering artful Dolly Driver. "You do not know all your son's secrets; no mother does." "I do know this one, I fear." And then Mrs. Purling described the absurd mistake in identity.
"'Come with me," said Barbara, "'into the little sheltered valley of the Speed; let us follow the brown trout stream that goes purling " "Barbara, it's priceless. What made you think of purling?" "He'd have thought of it. 'Purling through the lush green grass of the meadows."
"I did not catch it clearly. Besides, I had never heard of you. None of us have. Your mother did not choose to recognise the relationship." "She called you a tide-waiter," said his wife indignantly. "At least I'm not a white-tied waiter," cried Mr. Driver, with a laugh, in which all joined. Then in low voice Dolly said "I met Mr. Purling at Purlington."
"We are all dying, but only to make your acquaintance." The new visitor was checked at the very threshold by Dolly's cry "Mr. Purling!" And Harold stood confessed to his cousins without a chance of further disguise. "Cousin Harold, you mean," he said, as he offered Dolly his hand. She tried hard to hide her blushes; and then and there Mrs.
Those “spicy groves, echoing with the nightingale’s song,” those “rosy bowers and purling brooks,” on the whole exist, so far as our experience goes, only in the poet’s dream.
Because God himself hath half prepared the dish, giving to this dainty creature a fragrance which assails the senses of man and adds to eating a vision of purling brooks and overhanging boughs." Suddenly, with his fork half-way to his mouth, he paused, and glared at Lewis, who was on the point of helping himself. "Sacrilège!" Leighton looked up.
You owe her everything." "Do I? I wonder what my tailor would say to that or Reuben Isaac Melchisedec? I've more than one creditor; they are a prolific and, I am sorry to say, a long-lived race." "I hope Mrs. Purling may live to be a hundred years at least " "I don't. I'd rather she was choked by one of those pills you tell me she takes every morning and night."
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