We are surrounded by young, and, consequently, ardently affectionate hearts, but we can never hope to share an atom of their affections.

I will make up for it next post, and remain always 'Your most sincerely affectionate son, 'J. MACDONALD.'

He liked to hear such military terms of the orderly room from those pretty lips, and he would have replied with something unusually affectionate, and therefore exceedingly precious, but that, as husband and wife reached their own door, they found standing there to greet them the pale wasted face and attenuated figure of Tom Ryfe.

They are intensely affectionate and faithful, and have something almost cat-like in their domesticity.

He has a sulky temper; he is often offended with me for no reason, and then a day or so afterwards will be horribly affectionate, and give me a present to make up for it.

Nowhere more than in his own accounts of these meetings does the essentially affectionate and forgiving character of Douglass and his race become apparent, and one cannot refrain from thinking that a different state of affairs might prevail in the Southern States if other methods than those at present in vogue were used to regulate the relations between the two races and their various admixtures that make up the Southern population.

I distinctly heard him call her "Dolly," and equally distinctly saw an expressively affectionate look in her eyes as he hugged her in the waltzeswhereof they indulged in no less than five.

"How extraordinarily affectionate," I thought, but somehow it pleased me.

To her father, though a most respectful, she was a fearlessly affectionate child.

Toward those near and dear to her Martha Washington was almost foolishly affectionate.

Most of these princes live a long time, many of them having reigned above fifty years; and those of the country believe that the length of their lives and reigns is granted in recompence of their kindness to the Arabs; for there are no princes more heartily affectionate to the Arabs, and their subjects profess the same kindness for us.

I would particularly point to one by Agostino Caracci (Parma), and to another by Vandyck (that engraved by Bartolozzi), as examples of elegance; while in the numerous specimens by Rubens we have merely his own wife and son, painted with all that coarse vigorous life, and homely affectionate expression, which his own strong domestic feelings could lend them.

Her daughter Eleonore, nicknamed "Lorchen," seems to have won his heart awhile; she knitted him an Angola waistcoat and a neckcloth, which brought tears to his eyes; they spatted, and he wrote her two humbly affectionate notes which you may read with much other intimate matter in the two volumes of his published letters.

To his wife he had been inwardly affectionate, but outwardly almost stern.

He was a jealously affectionate, but very exacting father; and few daughters, I think, could have been more admirable in her affection for him, her attention to him, her care of him.

She was most loyally affectionate to her mother, but the sentiment was not a wholly filial one.

Pink's place was more than filled by Fun, who was so oppressively affectionate that he never could leave his mistress alone.

" To do Mrs. White justice, she was generally ashamed of these ebullitions of unreasonable ill-temper, and endeavored to atone for them afterward by being more than ordinarily affectionate and loving in her manner towards Stephen.

My friend seemed to me distrait and heavy-hearted; his wife seemed to be pathetically affectionate and anxious.

As a companion he is peculiarly affectionate and faithful, and remarkably intelligent; he makes a capital house-dog, is a good guard and is very safe with children.

Over the door to the Venetian room is a Cosimo Rosselli with a prettily affectionate Madonna and Child.

"It is not natural that a happy woman should be so solemnly affectionate to another.

If there was any change in her manner, it was more steadily affectionate to her father and mother than ever; the fitful, playful ways of her girlhood were subdued, but, except to me, she showed no symptom of pain, no show of apprehension: with me alone she sometimes drooped and sighed.

"During the whole morning Helen exerted herself to be mild and obliging; her conduct toward her aunt was uncommonly affectionate.

He was like a pleasant, rather spoilt child, unconventionally affectionate, and by no means difficult to manage.