Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend's grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.
But it also strengthened her in the now certain knowledge that, with his worldly inanities, his foppish ways, and foolish talk, he was not only wearing a mask, but was playing a deliberate and studied part.
He had changed his gorgeous ball costume, but was as usual irreproachably and richly apparelled in a suit of fine cloth, with lace jabot and ruffles, high top-boots, and riding breeches.
Julia wavered; but was he only trying to soothe and pacify her, and make her overlook the previous affront?
She spoke of her farther as somewhat delicate and puny, but was sanguine in the hope of her being materially better for change of air.
Fanny knew her own meaning, but was no judge of her own manner.
Sir Thomas received Mr. Yates with all the appearance of cordiality which was due to his own character, but was really as far from pleased with the necessity of the acquaintance as with the manner of its commencement.
I closed my eyes to avoid it, but was unable to keep them closed.
I started to reply, but was interrupted by Harry, calling to ask where we were.
It was a most excellent diver, but was in profound ignorance of the first principle of the art of floating.
I made inquiries of the manager of the hotel, of course, but was brought up sharply when he asked me the names of my friends for whom I was asking.
But was it possible for him to be brave when he was by himself, face to face with his soul, or would he then surrender to despair?
He had no patience with fools, but was willing to take much trouble with boys whom he suspected of concealing intelligence behind their wilfulness.
He looked pale and tired after his night's watch, but was full of spirits.
Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet.
Eteonicus got wind of the design, but was at a loss how to deal with it, considering the number of these reed-bearers.
This camp, it must be borne in mind, did not lie at all on the level, but was pitched on a somewhat steep incline.
I only show it to you to prove that I didn't need to return to my profession, but was actuated by a pure love of my art.
He believed that he was not made of common clay like other men, but was a being of a higher order, who condescended to mingle with his inferiors--a piece of fine porcelain amid homely vessels of coarser earthenware.
At the sight of so much majesty, the magician was not only dazzled, but was so amazed that, after she had prostrated herself before the throne, she could not open her lips to thank the Fairy as she proposed.
Her former bridegroom rode over it a few days ago and heard her singing, but was no wiser than the rest.
When he had gone, she sat down to her wheel to make up for lost time, but was dismayed to find that her thread had lost all its brightness.
The patronage of the government did not stop with this cheap display of royal condescension, but was shown in the most efficient measures for facilitating the labors of the husbandman.
The place was uninhabited, but was recognized by the Indians on board, as occasionally resorted to by the warlike people of the neighbouring isle of Puna, for purposes of sacrifice and worship.
The ornament, which was in the form of a wheel, did not depend from the ear, but was inserted in the gristle of it, and was as large as an orange.
The wing of genius was not bound to the earth by the cold and conventional rules of criticism, but was permitted to take its flight far and wide over the broad expanse of creation.
I recognized the value of such associations and endeavored to learn something from them, but was determined, none the less, to end this sort of general activity as early as it could be done consistently with justice to my family.
Dining afterward at the Foreign Office with my old friend Millet, who was second in command there, I met various interesting Frenchmen, but was most of all pleased with M.
He accepted, but was out of humor with nearly all the proceedings of the conference.
I made some headway in it, but was at last painfully convinced that I should never have time to finish it worthily.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr.
It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.
It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.
A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826.
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