 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 pàgines
...management whom had excited my father's admiration, was willing to receive me in the place of a Itltlc daughter. I am ashamed to confess that I was so wretched...countenance, and can as little resist its influence as 1псЪретп£ flower can the sunshine. Mrs. Herman and myself, in a few days, were therefore better... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1836 - 242 pàgines
...any one who might be chosen to supply her place, wickedly determining not to love her, nor even to make myself amiable to her. But the soul of a child...as I had been, could not long remain insensible to daily and hourly kindness ; I felt it instinctively in the tone of Mrs. Herman's voice, in the expression... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1839 - 198 pàgines
...any one who might be chosen to supply her place, wiekedly determining not to love her, nor even to make myself amiable to her. But the soul of a child...as I had been, could not long remain insensible to daily and hourly kindness. I felt it instinctively in the tone of Mrs. Herman's voice, in the expression... | |
 | Juvenile forget-me-not - 1862 - 240 pàgines
...all was still in the house except the crickets, which I heard chirping on the kitchen-hearth—but no Mrs. Tetty was in bed! I started up half terrified,...therefore better friends than it had been my intention wa ever should become. She knew all the circumstances of my young life from my father, and, having... | |
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... whom had excited my father's admiration, was willing to receive me in the place of a little daughter. I am ashamed to confess that I was so wretched in parting from dear Mrs. Tetty, that I closed my heart against any one who might be chosen to supply... 