Sometimes unbidden tears will wet my cheek, And my heart bound as keenly as of yore, Responsive to a voice, now hushed to rest, Which made the beautiful Italian shore, In all its pomp of summer

Yet I, who ever felt another's woe More keenly than my own untold distress; I, who have battled with the common foe, And broke for years the bread of bitterness; Who never yet abandoned or betrayed The trust vouchsafed me, nor have ceased to bless, Am left alone to wither in the shade, A weak old man, deserted by his kind Whom none will comfort in his age, nor aid!

Then, eying her keenly, as if struck by a sudden thought, "Did you know the man, or was it all pure patriotism?" "Yes," returned Betty, filled with indignation at the sneer, and facing him with all her native courage; "yes, I know him well.

It was a very lovely Betty over whom the October sunshine played that morning, but to a keenly observant eye a different Betty from her who had danced at the De Lancey ball, now nearly three years past.

" Elsley looked at him keenly.

" "Then ... why did you bring out that other?" "Which other?" shouts Peter, while Thurnall eyes Trebooze keenly.

All which Lucia saw as keenly as any one, and tried to pass off by chattering nervously and fussily for him, as well as for herself; whereby she only made him the more cross, for he could not the least understand her argument"Why, my dear, if you don't talk to people, I must!"

They, however, feel keenly any injustice or gross discrimination, and generally show their resentment.

And all this time the Sheriff was watching the man very keenly, and suddenly he caught him by the arm.

[Illustration: The Sheriff was watching the man very keenly, and suddenly caught him by the arm.]

How keenly and well the pun serves him in burlesque, in his comic imitations of the great moralist!

Jervis Ferrars looked at her keenly, noting the shiver and the trouble in her eyes; then he said abruptly: "What is the matter?

C. is disposed to prepare another article for that paper, and is looking about him keenly for new facts.

A new roster was made up, and I question if there was ever a body of men organized for an exploring expedition, more intelligent or more keenly alive to the risks to be encountered than those then enrolled; and it seems proper that I here speak more specifically of them.

Unquestionably it was to avoid sight of his men returning from their day's work that Oliver Jordan usually drove off at this time of the day; it brought home to him too keenly the many times when he himself had ridden back by the side of Lew Hervey from a day of galloping in the wind; it crushed him with a sense of the impotence into which his life had fallen.

But isn't it possible that your sleep might be worth two months' wages to you, Mr. McGuire?" "H-m-m," growled McGuire, and his little shifty eyes fastened keenly on her.

Paine felt keenly the neglect of his former friends, who avoided him, when they did not openly cut him.

" It is only fair to say that no one appreciates this situation more keenly than Lord Curzon, and while he is too discreet a man to criticise the acts of his predecessors in office, he has plans to restore the interior of the fort to something like its original condition and has already taken steps to tear down the ugly brick buildings that deface the landscape.

" "Are you not a physician?" asked Carteret, looking at the young man keenly.

As I approached a woman who had a great basket of grapes in front of her, she hastily threw a bundle of leaves over them, casting a keenly suspicious glance at me the while.

I added some few words on the dangers attending any sort of trouble, when too keenly felt.

He keenly relished the society into which he was invited; and, on the other hand, everybody liked him.

Of all men, Sandford felt this steady, determined pressure most keenly.

Keenly do I recollect the struggling again into painful consciousness, the sudden sense of cheering daylight, the sound of friendly voices, the changed room, and the strange looks of all around me.

He and Mary the cook and Ellen the upstairs girl and old Miss Skeffington, generalissimo of the Hargrave household, were the only persons present keenly conscious that there was in progress a wedding, a supposedly irrevocable union of a man and woman for life and for death and for posterity.