We
read some, and mean to every day," they all cried in chorus.
At first, she
read to please her humble friend; but soon her own earnest nature threw out its tendrils, and wound itself around the majestic book; and Eva loved it, because it woke in her strange yearnings, and strong, dim emotions, such as impassioned, imaginative children love to feel.
When the curate
read the two first titles he looked over at the barber and said, "We want my friend's housekeeper and niece here now.
Also I am sending you a book of stories; some of which I have
read myself, particularly one called "The Cloak.
To know him in bits and scraps is common enough; to know him pretty thoroughly is, perhaps, not uncommon; but to
read him well aloud is no everyday talent.
It is amazingly; it may well suggest amazement if they do -- for they
read nearly as many as women.
It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastness; and the legend which he
read told that a boat was always moored at the entrance to tempt the unwary, but no traveller venturing into the darkness had ever been seen again.
But he kept his affection for certain poets of the graver, not to say gloomier sort, and he must have suffered his children to
read them, pending that great question of their souls' salvation which was a lifelong trouble to him.
And then like a good mother she took up one of her son's books and
read it most determinedly.
Sometimes, I was called upon to accompany one or both of the sisters in these visits; and sometimes I was desired to go alone, to fulfil some promise which they had been more ready to make than to perform; to carry some small donation, or
read to one who was sick or seriously disposed: and thus I made a few acquaintances among the cottagers; and, occasionally, I went to see them on my own account.
But when I
read that unconscious confession of the murderous conspiracy to which he fell a victim, I remembered, with something like remorse, that the same mother bore us.
Pulling a manuscript from his breast pocket he held it near the candle and turning the leaves until he found the passage that he wanted began to
read.
