The visitors soon learned the story, and nearly every one had a kind word for me, even Miss Percy, who had come as a guest, kissed me warmly on the cheek, and wished me joy.
All knew that Master Harry was going to college, and most of them had a kind word and a look of farewell.
No; the Dean was no Irishman—no Irishman ever gave but with a kind word and a kind heart.
He is, besides, very good humoured, and willing to part with anything for a kind word: and this gives me hopes of a docile and benevolent disposition, as he grows up.
Your apprehensions, my dear, must be very strong, that a kind word, as you call it, has such an effect upon you!
I see clear enough there's more pride nor love in my soul, for I could sooner make a thousand strokes with th' hammer for my father than bring myself to say a kind word to him.
Mr. and Mrs. Poyser paused a minute at the church gate: they were waiting for Adam to Come up, not being contented to go away without saying a kind word to the widow and her sons.
She was in a softened and receptive mood, and a kind word, even a kind glance, might have tuned the scale in favor of better thoughts and better living.
Perhaps he does mean to say a kind word, and give me a chance to explain.
His very attitude seemed to indicate to the unhappy girl a haughty indifference, and yet she was so unhappy, so in need of a kind word or reassuring glance that she could not turn away.
If there is any old friend in your town, who has some influence over your father, leave no means untried of getting that friend to say a kind word for us.
Sooner or later, you will find yourself saying a kind word to my father for Philip and me.
I remember entreating Helena to say a kind word for me.
Pelle followed him in order to say a kind word to him and lead him back into the organization.
Lasse went about lamenting, and Pelle had enough with his own trouble; each moved in his own world, and there was no bridge between; neither of them had a kind word to say to the other.
His soul was sick with longing for a kind word and a caress, and there was no one to give them.
And they come and eat out of your hand if you give 'em a kind word--that's the mischief of it.
But she has hardly given me a chance to say a kind word to her yet.
And there is no one to speak a kind word to him when he comes out of that weary place--" "And you would like my John to go and see him?
You are a good man, I have always heard, and he needs some one to speak a kind word to him, and I sore misdoubt that he's in ill company yonder.
Allie," said he, "say a kind word to me before I go.
A kind word rose to her lips, but did not get spoken.
You are just such a bird, always crying out for a pat of the hand or a kind word.
He hoped Annele would try to detain him, or would at least speak a kind word to restore him to himself.
If only one of them had thought to say a kind word to me!
The next moment there flashed into her mind these words of Miss Vincent's: "If only one of them had thought to say a kind word to me.
The foreman now and then said a kind word to me; and whenever he did, it made my heart feel so good that I seemed a new being with brighter hopes.
I was a poor slave, forced from my children, with nobody to speak a kind word for me; everybody to reckon me as a good piece of property only.
Daddy and Bradshaw had taken care of the horses; the deacon greeted his negroes as one by one they came to welcome him; and for each he had a kind word, a joke, a shake of the hand, or an enquiry about some missing member of a family.
No; if none will utter a kind word to me, let me continue on; let the prison be my home, and the gallows my end, rather than attempt to reform while those who were once my friends stand around to drive me lack by scoffing remarks!
And although, from the ringing of the bells, no one heard a word she said, still she had the satisfaction of having shouted a kind word to the good souls; for who knows when she might come back to Knuslingen?
Why did he die, and leave me alone in the world, without our ever having exchanged one kind word at the last?
The man that had the care of us never gave me a kind word in my life.
I have known ladies to do it now and then, and this gentleman, and one or two others have given me a pat and a kind word; but ninety-nine persons out of a hundred would as soon think of patting the steam engine that drew the train.
Sometimes a kind word is all we can give 'em, poor brutes, and 'tis wonderful what they do understand.
He's eighteen or twenty years in the neighborhood, and I never heard that he said a kind word or did a generous act by any one.
And do you know," continued he, "you are the first real gentleman that ever said a kind word to me, or asked me to sit down in his company.
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