Yet I could plead plenty of excuses for my life, if I cared to trouble you with them; but I don't.

Gilbert said to himself, as he walked back to Lidford in the darkening November afternoon, brooding always on the one subject which occupied all his thoughts; "and can I doubt his power to supersede me if he cared to do soif he really loved Marian, as he never has loved Mrs. Branston?

She had fancied this; and now her release had come to her, and was worthless in her sight, because the one man she cared for had proved himself cold and indifferent.

It would be a most unwarrantable thing for her to do, of course; an act which would cause Mrs. Pallinson's hair to stand on end in virtuous horror, could it by any means come to her knowledge; but Adela did not intend that it ever should be known to Mrs. Pallinson; and about the opinion of the world in the abstract, Mrs. Branston told herself that she cared very little.

But had it been otherwise, had he not been bound prisoner to John Saltram's sick-room, he would scarcely have cared to take his part in the conventional feastings and commonplace jovialities of Lidford House.

There were not many people to see the greenery and bright holly-berries which embellished the grave old rooms, not many whom Ellen very much cared for to taste the pies and puddings; but duty must be done, and the bailiff's daughter did her work with a steady industry which knew no wavering.

Stephen Whitelaw cared about as much for roses and lilies as he cared for Greek poetry or Beethoven's sonatas.

Stephen Whitelaw cared about as much for roses and lilies as he cared for Greek poetry or Beethoven's sonatas.

He might have known that I should look kindly upon any one he cared for.

But like the mice in the fable, no one was found who cared to put the bell on the cat.

They cared nothing for money.

And I never cared for any one after I saw you.

Many's the farmer's son became a labourer for the sake of a woman he cared for! CORNELIUS And are you not thinking about the school at all, Ellen?

No one asked or cared about the man, but each and all made anxious inquiries after the rhinocerossuch is the life of barbarians.

If she merely cared for it [note the subtle double sense of "caring for"] because it is pretty and amusing, we might concede that she "liked" it, was "attached" to it, or "fond" of it; but it would be incorrect to speak of affection.

Temples were erected by this people in their honor, in which they were fed and cared for during life; to kill one of them was a crime punishable with death; and after death, they were embalmed, and interred in the catacombs.

For a few years after the close of the long Indian struggle there were here and there officers who had seen actual service and who knew the rudiments of drill; but in the days of peace the men who had taken part in Indian fighting cared but little to attend the musters, and left them more and more to be turned into mere scenes of horseplay.

The statesmen at Washington viewed this last proposition with positive alarm, and cared only to acquire New Orleans.

For mere diplomacy, the Spaniards cared little or nothing; but they feared the Westerners.

They were not accustomed to self-government, and did not demand it; and they cared very little for the fact that their superiors made money improperly.

The Indians all professed much satisfaction at the change, which of course they did not in the least understand, and for which they cared nothing.

He has never cared whether he paid his tailor.

After reading the letter to the assembled crowd, Luther solemnly threw it into the flames and watched it burn to ashes, that all might see how little he cared for the Pope or his threats.

He had no inclination to spend the evening with his friend, whom he hardly cared to see until he could meet him as the messenger of good tidings.

Reinaldo watched him with jealous impatience; no one cared to hearken to his eloquence when Estenega talked; and he had come to Fort Ross only to have a conversation with his one-time enemy.