That was a very happy evening notwithstanding the fact that the Miss Grace Donnithorne of less than a couple of months ago was now Mrs Grant and our step-mother.
A boy was one thing, but an elderly, stout lady about Hannah's own age was quite another thing.
Maurice recalled his wandering thoughts with an effort, and with something of repentance for having given them place, turned his attention resolutely to his wife's chatter during the remainder of the walk home.
Maurice and Vera wandering side by side along the broad gravel walks in the wintry gardens were happy--without so much as venturing to wonder what it was that made them so.
I saw it in your face last night when you were wandering about the house during the thunderstorm; you meant her death then.
Did some foul and evil thing, wandering homeless around that fatal spot, enter then and there, unbidden, into her sin-stained soul?
He's not going to do anything of the kind; he's wandering about the Continent.
I suppose the thief had found a German wandering about the desert at some time or other.
Baroja in the preface to the Nelson edition of La Dama Errante ("The Wandering Lady").
I do not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
Wandering voices in the air, And murmurs in the wold, Speak what I cannot declare, Yet cannot all withhold.
I break your bonds and masterships, And I unchain the slave: Free be his heart and hand henceforth As wind and wandering wave.
And to these two wandering side by side there was nothing lacking to complete the spell.
The world still went on; but to Alma Wyatt, wandering there alone by the landing-place in the glad sunshine, the golden side of life was clouded over for evermore.
Wandering in the golden sunshine, among fragrant pine woods and pastures, knee-deep in narcissus, the party soon split up as such parties will.
After some inquiries and wandering about, he at last made his way into Bank St. and found an eating-house, very near the scene of his morning's disaster.
How she was wandering in Winthrop's old haunts, where the trees had once upon a time been cut by him, she now to order the cutting of the fellow trees.
If I left him for ten minutes I was sure to find him on my return in earnest conversation with some affable wandering scholar.
What am I but a mere figure in the landscape, a wanderingminstrel or picker of daisies?
At the end of an hour I found myself wandering through the apartments of the great palace.
They two had sat still under the shade of a thorn bush, looking at Nora as she was wandering about, and talking together more freely than they had ever done before on the circumstances that had brought them together.
But the following morning I had been wandering contentedly enough in the wood, watching the shafts of light strike in among the trees, upon the glittering fronds of the ferns, and thinking idly of all my strange experiences.
Then I said to him as we went down through the terraced garden, and saw the inmates wandering about, lost in dreams, "This must be a sad place to live in, Amroth!
We had sometimes seen a pair of figures wandering at a distance, and we had even met neighbours and exchanged a greeting.
The wandering Gypsey in Hungary and Transylvania, endeavours to procure a horse; in Turkey, an ass serves to carry his wife and a couple of children, with his tent.
The specious appearance of submission to papal authority, in the penance of wandering seven years without lying in a bed, combined three distinct objects.
The Gypsies in Hungary, who have settled habitations, are very partial to gold and silver plate, particularly silver cups, which is a disposition they have in common with the wandering tribes.
Crusius, Wurstisen, and Guler, mention papal permissions for wandering unmolested through all Christian countries, as long as the term of their pilgrimage lasted; which they asserted was seven years.
Gypsies; since on account of their wandering mode of life, and from their not travelling in any numbers together, it would be difficult to form congregations.
Both the Gypsies and the Nuts are generally a wandering race of beings, seldom having a fixed habitation.
It ought to procure some indulgence for the Gypsies, that their wandering mode of life does not originate in any contumacious opposition to judicial order; but in a scrupulous regard to the Institutions of their ancestors.
As Dick caught sight of that look his own conscience pricked him, and he made a vehement effort to recall his wandering mind and fix it on the words which were being read.
The document was written in English, and the wandering handwriting was not unlike that of a child.
Daniel now rode beside Muriel; and the others having pushed ahead, they presently found themselves completely alone, moving through the indigo of the night like two phantom riders wandering over the uninhabited plains of the moon.
He hastened across the desert, and, without any difficulty, caught Muriel's wandering and tired animal, and readjusted the saddle.
By a stroke of good luck she found the three dogs wandering about the refectory, and they were thus not startled into barking: they followed her with wagging tails as she made her way to the camel-shed outside.
If you are wanderingand hungry they give you shelter and feed you; if they like you they treat you as a brother; and when they wish to kill you they tell you so, and give you four-and-twenty hours in which to quit.
Filled with such fearful questionings, half-inarticulate and vague, like the thoughts of a child, the untutored youth went wandering on, till he reached the edge of the cliff below which lay his home.
Gradually the great mountains at the head of the lake freed themselves from the last wandering cloud-wreaths.
Her memory seemed to be wandering angrily among her first experiences of the lady they were discussing.
Near the house we found some clips of explosive Mauser cartridges which had been buried by some bushes, and probably unearthed by some of the wandering porkers in the neighbourhood.
Well, wandering in the direction of the farm, I came near a duck-pond and a clump of small trees, from which smoke was arising.
Out here we wandering humble builders of the Empire have no idea how the war is progressing, if progressing it is.
So as not to be out of the fun, I took the first wandering brute I found, and fell in.
Riding through the trees, it was rather thickly wooded, we soon came across wandering cows, calves and oxen, and at length the laager at the foot of a small kopje.
But the sentence of wandering hath driven me out of Cana, out of Galilee, out of Judea into Syria.
Herod can not use her well; it will be a respite from her long wandering and poverty.
The wandering thoughts returned to the long fabrication he had told her of the loss of his money in Stenton, of the fictitious agent of hardware.
She spoke in a rapid, absent voice, as if her attention were perpetually wandering down from the subject in hand to an invisible kitchen stove, or a child temporarily unaccounted for.
Yet his end and parting on that same day of this our life woful should be, and his wanderingsoul far off flit to the fiends' domain.
The clashing waters were cleansed now, waste of waves, where the wandering fiend her life-days left and this lapsing world.
But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him of wandering death-sprite.
The major could not keep still but was foreverwandering about before the post office, stopping the estafettes and questioning the colonel's orderly to find out if the acceptance had arrived.
It occurred to Cousin Giles that the life of the wandering gipsy was perhaps more creditable than that of his brethren in the city.
While wandering round the town, he saw large storehouses with chests piled upon chests of tea.
At length a wandering puff of air drawing up from the valley brought the sound startlingly near and clear.
A wandering mink slipped by, and paused to look in hostile wonder at the great white marauder of the north, terrible even in death.
The toil and restless wandering of individuals, the surging migration of races, the incessant change called progress, are all but the symptoms of his feverish discomfort, his cosmic ill adjustment?
They made that wandering hearth and home of the Violetta a vivid enough picture to my mind.
