No woman could help being really pleased at such whole-hearted devotion and such Bluebeard-like viewsespecially when they were not going to be carried out.

"We've already had one visitor before you," said the Boy, looking wonderfully pleased at the prospect the priest had opened out.

If any number of men should desert on this night, there could not be any question but that we, having had an inkling of it, might justly be held accountable, but yet I was not pleased at the thought of doing or suffering to be done that which the old soldier had set his face against.

Obed chuckled as though pleased at the answer to his look of inquiry.

They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts[608].'

" Maud was pleased at this expression of confidence, and she looked up in the major's face, her full blue eyes expressing no small portion of the heartfelt satisfaction she experienced.

I was rather pleased at having an opportunity to study him, especially at his own suggestion, and I made up my mind that before the lunch was over I would have solved the mystery of who or what the missionary was, and why he had the little red-headed man at my heels since I had arrived in Manila that morning, and why he had attempted to keep me out of the Kut Sang.

I was rather pleased at the captain's gruffness with him, and resolved that as soon as the opportunity offered I would discuss the crafty gentleman with Riggs.

Brutus was greatly pleased at this decision.

Octavius was much pleased at the result of this interview.

'Three things hold we, the Rulers, who sit by the founts of Olympus, Wisdom, and prowess, and beauty; and freely we pour them on mortals; Pleased at our image in man, as a father at his in his children.

He is immensely pleased at having discovered a huge slicken-sided fault in the lavas of the Turk's Head.

"Why, my dear," said he, "it appeared to me that you and Mr. Slope did not get on as well as you used to do, and therefore I thought that if he got this place, and so ceased to be my chaplain, you might be pleased at such an arrangement.

The people were pleased at the apparent affection which his action evinced; and as Cornelia was the daughter of Cinna, he had opportunity, under pretext of praising the birth and parentage of the deceased, to laud the men whom Sylla's party had outlawed and destroyed.

The lawyers smiled at each other, and seemed not a little pleased at hearing him so roughly rebuked; for many of them had been more or less annoyed by his skill and ready wit in tangling their skein, in cases where questions of freedom were involved.

" "Well, I don't think he was pleased at that, Grizel.

She was pleased at the sight and thought that the souls of all men were taken away like this.

In all the long years that I have acted as clerk of this court, I never felt more pleased at the coming of a new magistrate than when I heard of the discretion of His Excellency in selecting Mr. O'Crowley for this most exalted position.

Perhaps the reader will be pleased at a discovery, which it would have been unsafe to mention when made, or in the course of this correspondence.

They ingratiate themselves with the aristocrats, who are pleased at the imputation of principles which may secure them from persecutionthey see their names recorded on the journals; and, finally, by ascribing these civic dispositions to the power of their own eloquence, they obtain the renewal of an itinerant delegationwhich, it may be presumed, is very profitable.

There were many who could not understand why, if they were free, they should be restricted from going where they pleased at all times.

Madame Kalitine was so pleased at this that she felt quite touched and inwardly thought, "Why, what a fool Fedor Ivanovich must be!

Little Peter, like most other children, was always the picture of cleanly neatness when first he left his nurse's hand in the morning, and his mother was much pleased at the evident interest with which their guest regarded him, asking him various questions about his lessons, his sports, and his pony.

"I am pleased at his marriage, and they must submit to be laughed at like other people.

No one seemed pleased at the idea of my going; in my helplessness, my heart continued to become more and more sorrowful.