 But though he refused to talk of it to the butler, and though it was some time before he could make up his mind to talk of it at all, he could not refrain himself, and at last let Clara know herself the impression her music had made on him. " I would...  Artist and Craftsman - Page 280by Richard Seymour Conway Chermside - 1860 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...confusion of Emma, as he glanced with ill-affected indifference over the pages of the little book ; but it was some time before he could make up his mind to put a question, which he feared might lead to results at once fatal to his own peace of mind, and deeply... | |
 | Samuel Beazley - 1830 - 210 pages
...own lips, was become necessary to the Admiral's pertinacity. Yet with hi? notions of female decorum, it was some time before he could make up his mind to visit such a woman as he conceived this to be. What would his friends say if they discovered it 1 He... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 pages
...gentle little girl who had attracted his attention, and won his affections. On his return to New York, it was some time before he could make up his mind to go and see his friends who had been visited with such affliction while he was away ; for he feared... | |
 | 1855 - 766 pages
...was sitting at the table, in the saloon of the Candidate, when the patient began to complain ; and it was some time before he could make up his mind to offer advice, thinking that it might be rejected. But for this time he was in error ; for he no sooner... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1855 - 898 pages
...thought that we were going to fight for somebody's freedom. The noble Lord has now made his plunge — it was some time before he could make up his mind to take it ; but in stating what were the objects of the war he has used phraseology with respect to Turkey... | |
 | Azel Stevens Roe - 1855 - 292 pages
...best to return his respectful salutations. Mr. Tightbody was immediately provided with a seat, but it was some time before he could make up his mind to take possession ; he had two or three extra bows to make, and finally, just as he had apparently decided... | |
 | Three cripples - 1859 - 156 pages
...voice in which one of the elderly gentlemen, witli white hair, addressed him. Eddy had never heard that It was some time before he could make up his mind to tell how he came by the injury which had brought him to his present state; poor little fellow! he had... | |
 | Richard Seymour Conway Chermside - 1860 - 480 pages
...library; but never had he heard music sung by such a voice as Clara's, nor by so finished a musician. _. " There now, mon, dont'ee talk of that now, dont'ee!"...chaps get hearin' o' it; though I can't well see how it's to be managed, Miss!" "I do, though/' said Sir Jeffrey, when Clara, that day, at dinner, related... | |
 | 1862 - 522 pages
...Scalloway, as we have described. Captain Mortimer was much startled by the news Magnie brought him, and it was some time before he could make up his mind to carry it to Julia. But he felt it must be done, for he saw with Magnie that the elopement was now unnecessary,... | |
 | Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Henry Boynton Smith - 1863 - 118 pages
...assuming a typhoid character, which greatly prostrated him. Although he felt decidedly better of that, -it was some time before he could make up his mind to resume his more severe studies. He wrote the memoir of his father meanwhile. Of course, he kept thinking... | |
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