Lady Devine got a letter from him on the day of the funeral to say that he had taken his passage in the Hydaspes for Calcutta, and never meant to come back again!
Frere, feeding the fire, thought that the chance he had so longed for had come.
If caught in one of the frequent storms which ravaged that iron-bound coast, she could not live an hour.
He knew the characters of the three ruffians who, separated from him by but two inches of planking, jested and laughed over their plans of freedom and vengeance.
He had been Superintendent of Works at Bridgewater, and when he got his captaincy, Assistant Police Magistrate at Bothwell.
The ship changed her course, and came towards this strange fire in the middle of the ocean.
Old artillery-men have said that, after being at work for days in the trenches, accustomed to the continued roar of the guns, a sudden pause in the firing will cause them intense pain.
The name of "Dawes", detested as it had become to her, bore yet some strange association of comfort and hope.
At this happy conclusion to his labours, Frere went down to comfort the girl for whose sake he had suffered Rex to escape the gallows.
The chaplain was returning, and in a few hours perhaps would be with him, to bring him the message of comfort for which his soul thirsted.
I must comfort him, and not worry him with my follies.
His duty was to comfort Kirkland's soul; he had nothing to do with Kirkland's slovenly unhandsome body, and so he went for a walk on the pier, that the breeze might blow his momentary sickness away from him.
Lester, folding her in his arms; "but we ought to take courage and comfort from him, Madeline.
All this while his poor Madeline seemed actuated by a spirit beyond herself; she would not be separated from his side--she held his hand in hers--she whispered comfort and courage at the very moment when her own heart most sank.
You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!
He hain't had a minute's peace or comfort with that leg sence he come home from the war.
The spirit of inquiry and the desire for artificial comfort are the great promptings to civilisation.
They see in every advance of comfort a cause of further weakness, and they picture luxury as rapidly corroding the supports of our society.
And he was awarded a pension of L120 a year to comfort the remainder of his maimed existence!
Somewhat cheered, Balder went home to his palace to comfort his distressed wife, Nanna, while Odin and Frigga discussed measures for their son's safety.
For Marygold did not know that she had been a little golden statue, nor could she remember anything that had happened since the moment when she ran with outstretched arms to comfort poor King Midas.
Then, with a sweet and sorrowful impulse to comfort him, she started from her chair, and, running to Midas, threw her arms affectionately about his knees.
The phantoms that will not come when we call on them to comfort us, are too often at our side when in our anguish we could almost pray that they might be reburied in oblivion.
What comfort by him do we win, Who made himself the price of sin, To make us heirs of glory!
She laughed a little as she made this suggestion, but there was an eagerness in her voice; my heart answered to it, for I saw that she found comfort in the thought of my company.
Here, then, I might well come to an end, and deny myself the pleasure of a last few words indited for my own comfort and to please a greedy recollection.
But come, you're a brave lad, and I'll comfort you.
I could guess well enough what was passing below, and I found no comfort in the knowledge of it.
What remained might rest unjustified to my great content; small comforthad I won from so much as had come to pass.
On the inside, comfort was what Mary always aimed at for him, and achieved.
I loved those sessions in that Tupperossettine dining-room, lair of solid old comfort and fervid old romanticism.
This is not an arbitrary division, but answers to a fact of experience which passes from our physical to our moral impressions, and may cause in us feelings of comfort or uneasiness, joy, sadness, or moral depression.
The publication of such a book as Catering for Two--Comfort and Economy for small Households (G.
Yet let me add, whenever it shall be most for your advantage to leave me, I will not doubt to sacrifice my own peace and comfort for your interest.
The preacher talks of forgiveness of sins and the comfort of the Holy Spirit; but he and the ushers keep a sharp eye upon the man who wears the fine clothes, pompous and self-conscious as that man probably feels.
They know it is a lie, but they comfort each other and are too proud to break away from the gang.
There is comfort in secret prayer and in family worship, but the man makes a tremendous psychological blunder who cuts himself off from the spiritual tonic of the public worship of God.
Let us gaincomfort from the experience of Isaiah in the contemplation of the solemn warning of James.
Faith without works is like a barren woman, without children to comfort her.
Those in charge of that worship should never fail to have in mind such persons who come to church seeking comfort and strength.
A restless crowd was moving along the boulevard, that throng peculiar to summer nights, drinking, chatting, and flowing like a river, filled with a sense of comfort and joy.
An infinitecomfort had encompassed her, a comfort the like of which she had never experienced.
For a few moments she felt nothing; then that soft and soothing feeling of comfort which she had experienced before enveloped her.
I have now some hopes of passing the few remainder of my days in as much comfort as the separation from the land where I spent the greatest portion of my life, and from all those which are most dear to me, can admit.
Upon going to her the next morning, I had the satisfaction, however, of finding her perfectly reconciled to the arrangement; she now felt the comfort of being undisturbed, and she has kept to her bed ever since.
It was easy without offence or suspicion to pass to hymns that might leave some ray of comfort in sorrowful hearts, and to get in a few words about the bourne "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.
For here, safely folded in peace and comfortwere just those whose presence on our streets is a disgrace to our civilisation, and a social danger.
Prison conditions indeed, to persons with so low a standard of physical comfort as the average vagrant, must be extremely comfortable and even attractive.
The only comfort was that daylight would come some time, and that the worse it proved to be, the more such a state of things needed to be exposed.
The special thanks of the Congress were voiced by Mr. Makgatho to the various committees, whose strenuous efforts for the comfort of the delegates left nothing to be desired.
She helped him up to his room and tried to cheer and comfort him; but, for the first time in her life, her loving flattery proved of no avail.
He bought one or two other things--traveling luxuries, which should add to her comfort on their journey, then went back to the club.
Fraenzchen had turned to the stranger; in spite of her anxiety and excitement she still had comfort enough for poor Henriette.
Turn back and sit down in comfort with your friends.
She could not even turn round to look at her husband; but between the words of comfort that she was speaking to the poor injured man all her thoughts turned to the landing where it had suddenly grown perfectly quiet.
But if his mother was awake he only needed to lay down his pen and to take her faithful hand in his: then the comfort he received was the best there could be for him.
Hans Unwirrsch stood in the narrow circle of light shed by this lamp with the feeling that here alone there was still refuge in every distress, satisfaction for all hunger, comfort for all pain.
On the way home from the cemetery Hans sought to comfort his friend--quite unnecessarily, as all that occupied the latter's mind was what his father had left.
But this comfort was lost on the lonely wanderer in the clouds of dust on the country road; he could pay little attention to it and, deeply depressed and forlorn, he dragged one foot after the other.
And something like comfort crept into the man's heart; it must be shining over from his own house, it seemed to him like a message from his wife and child.
Hans felt much humiliated at the bedside of this poor, simple woman who had to endure such tortures and yet could speak and comfort so heroically.
When Hans sank down on a chair in front of his table a feeling of comfort came over him such as he had not known since his student days.
And he walked on home, quite convinced that a person of his importance in the community should not be sacrificed to the comfort of any small boy.
The comfort of the scene, the cosy pleasantness of the place among the close-coming hills, struck him, in his relieved mood, as it had never done before.
The structure of comfort which he thus built himself was shaky indeed, but it had to serve.
Perhaps had Mr. Peaslee's fears not been so keen, he would have taken some comfort from this conversation; but as it was he felt that the lawyer was dangerous; he feared that Pete really was badly hurt.
Better late than never, to be sure; but if genuine comfort in a good deed is sought, it is best to act at once.
Went to see Mr. Streeter, that excellent painter of perspective and landscape, to comfort and encourage him to be cut for the stone, with which that honest man was exceedingly afflicted.
I pray God make him worthy of it, and a comfort to his excellent mother, who deserves much from him!
But if you do, you will realize comfort at the expense of greatness, and your society will be one not of men but of ants and bees.
Should we not have to pay for the general level of comfort and intelligence, by suppressing the only thing good in itself, the manifestation of genius?
But Faith, and Hope, and Charity walk beside him in the mire, to kindle, to comfort and to help.
And although Sybil thought he had treated her hardly in her love affair, she laid all thoughts of self aside so as to comfort him in his trouble.
But how many weary years have I waited, and have had to comfort myself in that fashion.
My darling Leo," she said, "I knew that you were miserable, and I have come to comfort you.
She had not even the comfortof feeling that she could revenge herself.
That I know, if that's a comfort to ye, and it should be, Robert.
I've got a son who never went right; and it's no comfort to me, upon my word.
And a blank envelope to her uncle here, who's kept her in comfort for so long!
Wait and comfort her till I come, and answer no questions.
By the same rule, your cousin Algernon may prove to be some comfort to his father, in the end.
Rhoda gave a loving answer, and again Dahlia shrank from the miserable comfort of words.
The clergyman is a comfort to women," said Edward.
Until his wife was lost to him, he believed that he had a mighty grievance against her; but as he was not wordy, and was by nature kind, it was her comfort to die and not to know it.
Anthony's comfort was in the unfaltering strength of his constitution.
