As a married woman, and as a Christian and American woman, she desired no more than this.
First, and certainly, she desired to shake the dust of New York from her feet at the earliest opportunity.
Matters had shaped themselves exactly as she desired.
Even with his shortcomings he was so important to her from the point of view of support, and her scheme of life was so interwoven with his, she had taken for granted that he would live as long as she desired.
And verbally, on the night but one before she died, she desired I might have her fine quarto edition of Shakespeare, sweetly saying she had never received so much pleasure from him in any other way as through my reading.
The attendant on the hospital arranged her in her bed as she desired, with her face to the wall and her back to the light.
Now as soon as the woman heard what Joab said, she desired him to intermit the siege for a little while, for that he should have the head of his enemy thrown out to him presently.
Accordingly, when Naboth had been thus testified against, as the queen had written to them, that he had blasphemed against God and Ahab the king, she desired him to take possession of Naboth's vineyard on free cost.
I did as she desired, begged her to do the same, and there she stood, in all the glory of her superb form.
On I went as she desired, and a more exciting picture of furious lust never met my sight.
When she had much excited me, and was evidently herself greatly so, she desired me to lie across the bed on my back, and to draw my knees up so as to let my feet rest on the edge.
My aunt, who could not but be most highly gratified, still kept up the appearance of relieving me, she desired me to rise, and said we must go, as luncheon time was at hand.
Begging me to button up, and putting herself to rights, she desired me to sit down by her side.
Whilst she sat on my knee, however, she desired my husband and Signor Rondi to go inside the curtain and feel that the medium was seated in her chair.
Ten days afterwards, however, having received several more visits from the sister, I did as she desired me, and sent a note to her brother to the Leamington Club.
He had done his best; from the moment when he had entered the room and met the touching brightness in her face, he had struggled to be as natural, to be as affectionate even, as she desired.
She had chosen not as she desired to, but as she must, and already she was learning that life forces one in the end to abide by one's choices.
The single gift which the ages permitted her was the only one she desired.
To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become.
She desired it also in order to maintain the bond which had united her to the Saviour.
She desired to show Him that though she neither could nor would resign her earthly lover, her heart still throbbed for the divine One as tenderly as of yore.
Eva already had flowers enough to adorn the coffin as she desired, and the sun showed that it was time to return.
It was from Mrs. Ormonde; she was at the Emersons', and wished to know when Thyrza would return; she desired to see her.
Uttered without forethought--she desired to say that and had said it.
The warmth would not pass from her cheeks, and the sensation prevented her from looking up; she desired to escape and be alone.
She desired it to turn full upon her, to look straight into hers with its clear, gentle eyes, which seemed to be so full of wonderful knowledge.
He gave her a laugh, by way of reply, and then gave her work as she desired; watching carefully against her tiring herself in any way, and making the lessons more of talk on his part and less of study on hers.
For herself she wanted nothing, she desired nothing; but the future of her children had to be secured.
Before leaving Italy, she desiredto accomplish two objects of her heart.
The same disposition which would render Lord Robert's fortune sufficient made hers answer all her wishes, since if she had not the joy of living with her ladyship, it would still afford her every thing she desired.
Now she told herself that she would not be absurdly hypercritical, and, as it happened, he had given her the lead that she desired.
She desired no gifts from Gregory, but since he had bought the cap and mittens she wondered what he could have done with them.
She felt that she could not look at him nor could she answer his question honestly as she desired to answer it.
She desired children, decorum, an establishment; she desiredto avoid waste, she desired to keep up appearances.
She desired then to cause the horrors and pains of public scandals.
Or, she desired to go with Edward to Africa and to throw herself in the path of a charging lion so that Edward might be saved for Leonora at the cost of her life.
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