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...d if the analysis is par- tially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Fearful, however, of losing thi... ...same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion. Eliza and Georgiana, evidentl... ...rld held a contrary opinion: I was silent. Mrs. Reed answered for me by an expressive shake of the head, adding soon, “Perhaps the less said on that s... ...at fed on the mast in the wood. When we got back, it was after moonrise: a pony, which we knew to be the surgeon’s, was standing at the garden door. M... ... Louisa Eshton, 185 Charlotte Brontë dressed also in white, took up their stations behind them. A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was ea... ...ou very well: you used to give me a ride sometimes on Miss Georgiana’s bay pony. And how is Bessie? You are married to Bessie?” “Yes, Miss: my wife is... ... in the course of her morning ride. She would canter up to the door on her pony, followed by a mounted livery servant. Anything more ex- quisite than ...

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...But the veriest trifle, interpreted by the spirit in which I offer it, may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction b... ...y, had done nothing, apparently, to lower the tone of his hap- piness. The expression of this happiness was noiseless and unobtrusive; no marks were t... ...rd Massey was in figure shortish, but broad and stout, and wore an amiable expression of face. That I could execute Lady Carbery’s commission, I felt ... ...imself with instructing a young gentleman, aged about fifteen, to take his pony and ride over to a distant cathedral town, which was honored by the ab... ...as! fifty-nine), who must long since have sown his wild oats; that unhappy pony of eighteen (now, alas! sixty-two, if living; ah! vener- able pony, th... ... masonry. Higher by far than the Mogul gifts of mile-stones, or travelling stations, or even roads and tanks, were the gifts of security, of peace, of... ...they expect; and the result is what I represent—that people in the highest stations, and such as bring them continually into contact with inferiors, a... ... hatred to T urkish insolence was not merely maintained in their own local stations,* but also propagated thence with activity to every part of Greec...

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...h this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publicatio...

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... ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unrea- s... ...posterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has... ...h the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation. But his eyes, too close ... ...trangest, like a place down in the country with a turnpike, or a favourite pony or a puppy or a bird or something from a seed-shop to be put in a gard... ...I’ll be bold to say,’ said Mrs Tickit, ‘and we all find it so. It an’t our stations in life that changes us, Mr Clennam; thoughts is free!—As I was sa...

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...- 5 Trollope ington has not been fortunate. I have a strong idea, which I expressed before in speak- ing of the capital of the Canadas, that no man c... ...f the Northern army had been extended be- yond it, not improbably with the express intention of keep- 27 Trollope ing a spot so hallowed within the p... ...rt from Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy. In this report approval was expressed of the deed done by Captain Wilkes. Captain Wilkes was thus in al... ...of this class. The clerks and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they are the wo... ...find seats. Now, on my return to Balti- more, they were again crowded. The stations were all crowded. Luggage trains were going in and out as fast as ... ...gh with the contract, he presented the son of Major M’instry with a riding pony. That was the only mark of respect,” to use his own words, “that he sh...