In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.
They say it captures the frustration of feeling smothered by constant parental nagging about their lifestyle choices, while their emotions and actual needs go overlooked.
These eight brave young women were making history in just their teenage years, and I asked Purity, the most verbose young ranger among them, " Do you ever get scared? "
" But you don't want me to bore you with my stuff, " he said in his loud hearty way. " I'm only here because Mrs. Driffield has entrusted to me the great honour of writing Edward Driffield's Life" .
Such are the results that Mrs Lincoln, the Empress Eugenic, and Countess Tolstoi obtained by their nagging. They brought nothing but tragedy into their lives. They destroyed all that they cherished most.