He was poor and he was in love with Hyacinth; the chain of evidence was complete.
I've never won anything at golf yet, and I should love to see a little cup on the dinner-table every night.
We all have one special book of our own which we recommend to our acquaintances, regarding the love of it as perhaps the best passport to our friendship.
After all," says one guest to another, "why shouldn't a tadpole make love as much as anybody else?
Could I but turn him out of the Regiment for good, I might win the love of the fair Miss Blowhard, the Colonel's daughter.
In the works of Thomas Love Peacock, and still more clearly in the works of Mr. W.
Does the wealthy mother of the upper middle-class or upper class really sit among her teeming children, teaching them in an atmosphere of love and domestic exaltation?
Socialism renders love impossible, and reduces humanity to the condition of a stud farm.
May a man love one woman only in his life, or more, and may a woman love only one man?
But it would leave men free to compete for fame, for service, for salaries, for position and authority, for leisure, for love and honour.
Now, said Sir Gawaine, it is yourself that I love so well, therefore I pray you hold your promise.
And also ye shall have my love and my lordship in the uttermost wise that may lie in my power.
And therewith they took off their helms, and either kissed other, and there they swore together either to love other as brethren.
How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan.
Nay, said the knight, ye shall do better, ye are a passing good jouster as ever I met withal, and once for the love of the high order of knighthood let us joust once again.
And Sir Palamides rode forth his way to that nunnery, and lightly he came again with Dame Bragwaine; but by her good will she would not have come again, because forlove of the queen she stood in adventure of her life.
Tell him that I rescued thee, not for the love of him but for the love of Accolon, and tell him I fear him not while I can make me and them that be with me in likeness of stones; and let him wit I can do much more when I see my time.
But Sir Beaumains had no rest, but wallowed and writhed for the love of the lady of the castle.
As for that, said King Mark, I require you, as ye love me and my lady the queen, La Beale Isoud, take your arms and joust with Sir Lamorak de Galis.
Sir Meliagaunce, then will I abide by it: I love Queen Guenever, what will ye with it?
It was not that he openly defied his mother--he simply made love to her whenever they were together, twisted her round his finger, and was off again.
She was too frightened of Mildred to disobey her, and she felt she would rather not be there to see their hateful ways to the dear, little, gentle cousin whom she thought she could love so much.
The blindness and madness of love was upon him and held him in complete bondage.
Illustration: "She Wondered What Love Was.
Romauld himself, as he took his vows, never fought harder to regain his soul from the keeping of Claremonde than did Theodora to suppress her love for Hector Bracondale.
She is married, of course, or Hector would not be in love with her.
That I am frantically in love with you, and your coldness is driving me wild?
She would like Anne, he said, and his mother would love her, he knew.
And just one, because you love him, seems all right, perhaps.
Towards evening he felt as though his consciousness were going to forsake him, but the loveof life was strong; he tightened his grasp on the canoe.
He has been prowling about our place for a few days, and father, who has no great love to missionaries, and has strong suspicions of converted Indians, has twice treated him rather roughly.
He did not despair, however; true love never does that; but he felt tremendously cast down.
Much water could not quench the love wherewith the poor creature strained Michel to her heart.
The missionary, however, was a true man, with the love of God burning brightly in his breast.
The queen saw this, and likewise that your lovewas going from her, and thought night and day of some plan that might put an end to this evil.
For a nurse of hers used to be telling her of an enchanted prince that she called by that name, and she fell in love with him, and his name was the first name on her tongue, for the very night before she was dreaming of him.
Let me see them first, father,' said she; but when she examined them she knew them right well, and guessed it was her true lovethat sent them.
Continue as good and kind as you always were; love your wife; and that's all the advice I'll give you.
Verily,' said Owen, 'she is the woman that I love best.
And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others were bought throughout the whole of Hereford, till the saddlers banded together and resolved to slay Manawyddan and his companions.
Unhappily, the hermit was not really as holy as he seemed; for no sooner did he see the princess than he fell in love with her wonderful beauty, and began to plot in his heart how he could win her for his wife.
And if you love me, Bellah, you won't attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.
The theme may have been suggested by Tennyson's Sir Galahad, but his familiarity with the old romances and his love of the mystical and symbolic sense of these good old-time tales were a quite ample source for such suggestion.
In the delightful little poem, The Nightingale in the Study, we have a fanciful expression of the conflict between Lowell's love of books and love of nature.
His love of reading is manifest in all his work, giving to his style a bookishness that is sometimes excessive and often troublesome.
MY LOVE Lowell's love for Maria White is beautifully enshrined in this little poem.
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which, by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet doth ever flow aright.
His love of country and his native soil was not merely a principle, it was a passion.
Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Am I trying to love and serve God with all my heart?
Sweet feast of love divine; 'Tis grace that makes us free To feed upon this Bread and Wine, In memory, Lord, of Thee.
Multiply our graces, Chiefly love and fear, And, dear Lord, the chiefest, Grace to persevere.
I love Thee, O my God, for all Thy mercy to me, and I desire to love Thee more and more.
Give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may love Thee more truly, for Jesus Christ's sake.
Let no earthly love possess my heart, so as to let me forget Thee.
According to thy mercy, O lord, which thou bestowest upon all, Cause me to love thy supreme rule.
The practical purpose would be followed by the pure loveof composition.
Ishtar appears here as the goddess of love and fertility.
He gives up the thought of gazelles and cattle, and returns to enjoy the love of Ukhat.
The oriental love of story-telling has produced the Gilgamesh epic and, like a true story, it grows in length, the oftener it is told.
The goddess Ishtar pleads for the love of Gilgamesh.
It is not the goddess of loveand fertility nor the goddess of war who is rescued from her prison by Ea, but the planet Ishtar.
He is the one god towards whom no love is felt, for he is a god without mercy.
For six days and seven nights Eabani enjoyed the love of Ukhat.
The phrase, at all events, is interesting as showing that the element of love was not absent in the emotions that the thought of Ashur aroused in the breasts of his subjects.
Still, an element of love also enters into the relationship with her subjects.
Erect, passionate, she made the walls of the little room unused to loud voices ring with the voice of love and bitterness.
Some men even had a superstitious dread of her; they would have been afraid to set up housekeeping with a girl whose first love had met so unhappy a fate.
A girl like Eleonore, who respects herself, would be ashamed to eat her food beside a young woman who could allow a penniless Boquin to make love to her.
Obedient, victorious over all fear for love of him, she bent once more towards the window, even began to laugh as she said: "It is easy to see that you have no fear of anything.
He lets you think that he likes shooting, and I do not say but what he may, but he does not carry his love for it to that extent, I'll be bound.
It makes my blood boil to see this Boquin makinglove to my sister in order to get hold of our money, and play the master here.
I refused him my daughter, and in that I did well; but he was a good worker, he had a love for soil.
With Andre hope did not speak, because with himlove had waxed feeble.
A little for love of her, but far more for the pleasure of sport and of nocturnal marauding so dear to the heart of primitive man, he had made up his mind to go shooting that night on the Marais.
They would see him again, the fair, handsome young fellow, so tall, the living portrait of his father grown young again, full of noble vigour and love for Sallertaine and the farmstead.
Beware of Mathurin, he has drunk too deeply of love to forget.
Your wife said there was nothing to eat in the house," she answered, "and I would love to buy everything you need, just for this once.
But Dorothy had little lovefor the society life of North Birchland.
Let's take the auto bus--I always didlove that word bus.
After all, a sincere, unselfish love is the best one can give in return for unselfish kindness.
Sister was always the greatest girl for taking all the responsibility, she was so hopelessly in love with work in her girlhood!
I took to the pans--I love to climb on those queer ladders that roll along!
As the man opened the door, "don't you know how we love you, James?
Come and see us--I'm with my sister, and I would just love to have you.
Snoring, deep and musical, sounded directly into their ears from behind the curtain, and even Tavia's love of adventure quailed at the awful nearness of the sound.
But it was a hard struggle, and I did love everything so much, that--well, I simply did not bother about selling.
They had shown little liking for the Dorns, but here was love of wheat, and so, in some way, loyalty to the government that needed it.
And in these long hours of his vigil Kurt Dorn divined a relation between his love for Lenore Anderson and a terrible need that had grown upon him.
It made her tremble to realize her responsibility --that her father's earnest wishes and her future of love or woe depended entirely upon what she said and did.
If he exaggerated such a little kindness as she had suggested, if he responded to it with such emotion, what would he do when the great and marvelous truth of her love was flung in his face?
She had fought out a battle with herself, had confessed her love for Kurt Dorn, and, surrendering to the enchantment of that truth, had felt her love grow with every thought of him and every beat of a thrilling pulse.
I see boys who are tender-hearted, who love life, who were born sufferers, who cannot inflict pain!
Although his concierge, who aided him to finish his toilette and saw him put on his white cravat, had just said to him, "What a love of a husband you would make!
If he had not spoken sooner it was because he was too poor, but he had always loved her, he loved her now, and never should love any other woman.
It is true we knew each other when we were young, and now that we have met again, it seems as if it would be pleasant to love each other.
She has suspected for a long time your love for Maria; she suffers, but she is resigned to it, and she will help you, the brave girl!
Yes, if Maria could love him a little, if he persisted in hoping, if she had the courage, it was the only step to take.
Lemarguillier, had been gravely compromised in a love affair, and had thrown himself at the feet of the chief of police, exclaiming, "Do not ruin me!
I shouldlove to come, only my husband is--is busy to-night.
A man long trained to love the monk's visions of Fra Angelico, turns in proud and ineffable disgust from the first work of Rubens which he encounters on his return across the Alps.
He meets Griselda, a peasant girl, who is drawing water at the well, and falls in love with her.
He foreknows that victory will crown his arms, and that love will reward his valour, but these joyful tidings are black with the shadow of death, for early in 1476 Simonetta died.
Cephalus here half yields to Aurora's blandishments, but a little Cupid holds up before him the portrait of his wife and recalls her love to his mind.
In the foreground Cupid on his knees is bound by maidens; in the distance there are other two groups, in one of which the god of love is being captured, in the other he is led away in triumph with his arms pinioned behind him.
For it was his union of gentleness and refinement with noble continence, his love and imagination winning even savage beasts into domestic friends, that distinguished St. Jerome and formed the true monastic ideal (see 227).
That this my love should manifestly be To serve and honour thee: And so I do: and my delight is full, Accepted for the servant of thy rule.
Flowers were consecrated to the Virgin, and the early painters chose those they liked best to be emblems of love and beauty.
The picture is a good illustration of the love of jewellery characteristic of the time.
Squarcione was an indifferent painter, but must have been an able teacher, and it was from him that Mantegna imbibed his love of the antique.
He was justly proud of his child, and thought her and everything she did, perfection; and Mabel returned this love with all she could spare from Wilfred.
You know how dearly I love her, and I hope you will comply with my request.
Choiseul abused the confidence reposed in him, and related to his friends the ludicrous stories, and the love affairs contained in the letters which were broken open.
Argenson, who was bound to her, as Madame de Pompadour said, by his love of intrigue.
He advised him to have no regard but for his own interest; neither to love nor put trust in anyone; and not to promote the views or advantage of either brother or sister.
Lucky was the man who might be touched with the love of such fair ones, and very lucky he who could escape it.
She contrived to have n meeting with him: and the King, who knew who she was, was persuaded that she was really madly in love with him.
Misfortune prompts us to summon our utmost strength to oppose grief and recover tranquillity, until at length we find a powerful aid in the knowledge and love of God, whilst prosperity hurries us away until we are overwhelmed by our passions.
The highest of these is that which love produces, and we testify our ardent gratitude by the manner in which we avail ourselves of this inestimable gift of Faraki.
All these circumstances combined were, surely, sufficient to deter Madame from engaging in a love affair with the Duke; but his talents and agreeable qualities captivated her.
But, fearing lest, during the night, love should regain all his power, and should triumph over the generous resolution of the lady, the Marquis pressed the young Count to accompany him to his hotel.
What cosy homes birds make in leafy walls That Nature's love has ruined--and the trees.
Lie back And let me love you a long time ere you go.
Love drives me back to grope with them through hell; And in their tortured eyes I stand forgiven.
Will you love me as I love you Until we both in earth are laid?
But even so I will set a seal upon you from my lip, Will set a guard of honour at each door, Seal up each channel out of which might slip Your love for me.
For like a nut for true love's sake My empty heart shall crack and break, When fancies fly And love goes by And Mary's left to die.
Or shall the old wives nod and say 'His love was only for a day, The mood goes by, His fancies fly, And Mary's left to sigh.
Nay, even the kiss Of mortallove that maketh man divine This light cannot outshine: Nay, even poets, they whose frail hands catch The shadow of vanishing beauty, may not match This leafy ecstasy.
LOVE Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Where that comes in that shall not go again; Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate.
But they know, lovegrows colder, Grows false and dull, that was sweet lies at most.
O mother quiet, breasts of peace, Where love itself would faint and cease!
For youth goes over, the joys that fly, The tears that follow fast; And the dirtiest things we do must lie Forgotten at the last; Even Love goes past.
If, in telling you that I love you, I have sinned past all forgiveness, I glory in it, and I take not one word of it back.
You have this to say--you love him and want him, you wish to take him from me.
I told you that if you wished it I would agree, but that I did not love you as a woman should love the man to whom she gives her life.
Wouldn't your love for her appeal to her, touch her, force some tenderness in response?
To-night perhaps I have sinned more than ever before in telling you that I love you.
She liked him, she admired him, she honoured him; but she did not love him, and in her innermost heart she knew why she did not love Johnny Everard, and never would.
I do not love you, dear, as a woman should love the man she mates with; but I like you.
Because I love you I shall suffer more--but I shall never break my word to the man I have given it to.
I believe he cares for me a little--not so much as he loves her, but a little, a little, and I love him.
She attracted me, and, I will confess it, I fell in love with her.
Do you realise that you are not in love with Tom because you know now that you are in love with someone else?
Oh yes, I wonder at myself for ever hoping or believing that a man like Hugh could fall in love with a silly little donkey like you.
But it was not to pour out the story of his love that he had sent for her to-night.
Grown-up folks began to be interested in the bright-eyed girl, and some score of little boys fell in love with her, and left nuts and apples for her at the wax-work door.
That I should lovehim is no wonder, but that he should love me!
I have felt since the time you visited me in my home as if my love for the boy who died had been given to you.
Is it because thou know'st that I love thee, and dost not like that I should seem to doubt it?
The result of this labor of love is scarcely more than a compilation, and I am under many obligations to those who have so cheerfully assisted me.
Like the domestic pigeon, it often flies, during the love season, in a circling manner, supporting itself with both wings angularly elevated, in which position it keeps them until it is about to alight.
He died all too soon for the honorable love of his faithful subjects.
The hot, passionate love between new lovers must be modified or it will kill.
Only when its many facets can be shifted around, now one and now the other coming into play, can love be endured for any great length of time.
