There, in the still days of the early autumn, Wetherell looked down upon the garden he had grown to love, and listened to the song of Coniston Water.
He had grown up out of sympathy with his father, but he had never until now began to analyze the reasons for it.
He was by no means lacking in shrewdness, and as he had grown older he had perceived clearly enough Mr. Worthington's reasons for throwing him socially with the Duncans.
What a place it had grown to be, and how different it was from being by ourselves at the Hollow.
But we knew him and laughed to ourselves to see the big swell hehad grown into.
It had grown precious to her since it had become the stay of Leopold's.
I had been journeying thus for years, and in their lapse it had grown but a little louder.
And God had not grown weary of his life yet, but I had grown so weary in my very bones that weariness was my element, and I had ceased almost to note it.
So was not Mr. Snodgrass, for he had grown jealous of Mr. Tupman.
But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.
He certainly enjoyed it, for he had grown unaccustomed to it, and he poured himself out another glassful, which he drank at two gulps.
She could not imagine to herself that he had grown!
She had not seen him for two years, and scarcely recognized him, he was so changed, had grown taller, better looking and was imposing in his uniform, with its brass buttons.
It seems that it was then, as he made his long journey through the forest, that the treacherous and horrid brute which we had killed, would attack the priest of whom it had grown weary.
I did not mean to say it, but I had grown nervous, and the thought leapt from my lips in words.
From childhood he had lived in impassable forests, amid continual hunts, in which, thanks to his superhuman strength, he was famous among the Lygians even before he had grown to manhood.
He accepted it for himself, but was grieved to the depth of his soul for that child who had grown up in his arms, and whom he loved beyond life.
Then she supped at his house, and confessed that not only Petronius, but his lute-player, had grown tedious to her long since, and that her heart was free now.
I could not forget that the feeling with which she now regarded me had grown up in my own free choice and course.
I besought him to think of Agnes, to connect me with Agnes, to recollect how Agnes and I had grown up together, how I honoured her and loved her, how she was his pride and joy.
Since Gouache had been in the room it had grown dark, and as yet but one lamp had been brought.
He had grown to be a very soldierly young fellow, straight and alert, quick of hand and eye, inured to that perpetual readiness which is the first characteristic of the good soldier, whether in peace or war.
San Giacinto's action was therefore spontaneous, and if it needs explanation it may be ascribed to an inherited magnanimity, to a certain dignity which had distinguished him even as a young man from the low class in which he had grown up.
He had always considered himself as the representative of an older generation, who, by right of position, was entitled to transmit to his son the whole mass of those proud traditions in which he had grownup as in his natural element.
The air, which she could not wholly remember the night before, had grownto completeness in her mind; she longed to know the words, that the whole song might henceforth stay with her.
Would it have been a hardship if his father had failed to amass money, and he had grown up in such a home as this?
He had grown a little stouter; he bore himself with conscious dignity; you saw that he had not much time, nor much attention, to bestow upon unpolitical people.
Another woman there was who had begun to exercise influence of an indefinable kind on the rugged fellow, a woman whom he saw a good deal of; and to whom he had grown accustomed to look for a good deal of help.
The time came when I had grown able to consider the matter with a degree of calmness.
He felt that he had grown pale, and wondered if she had heard the groan that seemed to have been forced from him in the struggle.
Really, it was amazing how much wiser he had grown all at once.
He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business.
He had not been unconscious that the part he had played toward this girl was ignoble, and that it had grown meaner as the fancy which her beauty had at first kindled in him had grown cooler.
He had always a hard task in refraining, but he had grown able to refrain, and now he merely looked unobtrusively glad to see her, and asked her where Lottie was.
Great divergences, however, had grown up within this western area; differences which had existed from the beginning had been brought into sharp relief.
Arrived at his new seat of authority, he found a pleasant, freshly fortified town whose white population had grown to fifteen hundred, including a considerable number of English-speaking settlers.
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