Lounging in an easy chair opposite to him was a gentleman clad in tartan-plaid, whose face might only be partially discerned through the glass bottom of a pewter, out of which he was draining the last draught.
To have left Conway Dalrymple at work upstairs without going tohim was impossible to her.
I knew at once that the only cure for him was a marriage with some girl that he could respect.
He was aware that the task before him was a very difficult one, and he had not confidence in himself,--that he was exactly the man fitted for the performance of such a task.
Reuther's faith in him was strong, but even her courage faltered as she thought of the disgrace awaiting him whatever the circumstances or however he might look upon his father's imperative command to return.
And the first thing his mother said to him was: "So you've had our little friend of the confectioner's there, Jon.
The Forsyte in him was bent on the acquisition of a certain strain of blood, and he was subduing resolutely as yet the Dartie hankering for a Nutter.
XXIV All that in him was rare or excellent, All that was good, all that was princely found, With such sharp words as malice could invent, He blamed, such power has wicked tongue to wound.
Of course the squire heard this little aside with the unlucky uncertainty of hearing which is a characteristic of the beginning of deafness; and its effect on him was perceptible in the increased acrimony of his next speech.
I am a timid man who long ago lost the glory of my life by it, and I was again timid when I sought to let Gavin see that my faith in him was unshaken.
Though every bit of him was aching, I saw that he would make the attempt.
The last thing I heard of him was that he had been offered the Lord-Lieutenantship of a county, and had accepted it in a long letter, in which he began by pointing out his unworthiness.
On each hand of him was placed a comely and personable young woman, which they called his Queenes, the howse within round about beset with them, the outside guarded with a hundred bowmen.
But the knowledge of what she expected of him was an inspiration, always present in his visions of her.
He was missed, and the little world that missed him was astray.
My gratitude to him was so great that I found it difficult to express my thanks.
She received him always with courtesy and kindness; but her behaviour to him was marked by a somewhat cold dignity, which, like a barrier of ice, repelled the warmth of his admiration and attention.
The way she laughed at him was for an instant almost irritating; it came out, for his fancy, from behind the white curtain.
VIII What was at all events not permanently hidden from him was a truth much less invidious about his years of darkness.
Immortality to him was in his descendants, the continuation of his name, respect to his ashes.
There were painters and sculptors enough in that army at his heels, and whatever appealed to him was copied on the spot.
The chieftain whom he had made king, and who had been surprised enough at receiving a diadem instead of the point of a sword, fancied, and not unreasonably, that the annuity which Rome paid him was to continue forever.
The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.
He lived the life of a journalist and public man in New York, but the poet in him was a man apart and he jealously guarded his talent in seclusion.
Their leader Ambrose went so far as to hold further that the revelation which was vouchsafed to him was a higher authority than the Scriptures.
The suspicion that she tricked herself with this calm observation of him was dismissed.
At least, as we perceive, a half of him was ripe of wisdom in his own interests.
The result in him was, that Laetitia became humanly and avowedly beautiful.
Clara's treatment of him was a robbery of land and subjects.
Even this man who had slainhim was ready to testify to that.
He was standing off a mob that had gathered to lynch his prisoner, and one glance at him was enough to explain how he had won his reputation as the most dashing and fearless member of a singularly efficient force.
In the clear atmosphere voices carried a long way, and all the conversation that came to him was on the subjects of the war for the range, the battle of the previous evening, and the lynching scheduled to take place in a few hours.
The look revealed to him was a fugitive of the wilds, no longer the glittering shooter of arrows.
Mr. Percy Dacier also spoke well, as might have been expected, and his uncle's compliment to him was merited.
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