Beth blushed like a rose under the friendly look he wore, but she was not frightened now, and gave the hand a
grateful squeeze because she had no words to thank him for the precious gift he had given her.
She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engagingnot inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talkand yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly
grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.
Pumblechook, "be
grateful, boy, to them which brought you up by hand."
"Maybe, then, it means she was
grateful that she'd had him as long as she did," suggested Peter.
When he got abroad at last he was hardly
grateful that he had been spared, remem- bering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was.
because I must be
grateful and edducation is going to be the making of me and help you pay off the morgage when we grow up
"But," he added, "you will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them, with your
grateful thanks for their kindness to you while you have been here."
Little did I think then--little did I think afterwards when our pleasant holiday had drawn to an end--that the opportunity of serving me for which my
grateful companion so ardently longed was soon to come; that he was eagerly to seize it on the instant; and that by so doing he was to turn the whole current of my existence into a new channel, and to alter me to myself almost past recognition.
I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa Panza and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will strive to show myself
grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for me, and tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as she will see in the end.
'Well!' said the matron, leaning her elbow on the table, and looking reflectively at the fire; 'I'm sure we have all on us a great deal to be
grateful for!
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very
grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
"Delighted," he cried with all his heart, "and so proud and so happy and so
grateful."
"Sir Wingrave," she said, "for all that you have done for me, I am, as you know
grateful. I would try to tell you how
grateful, only I know that it would weary you.
Mr Baptist, as a
grateful little fellow in a position of trust, was among the workmen, and had done as much towards the cheering as a mere foreigner could.
I have only to be
grateful. Far from me be all complaint, every sigh of regret.
