"Light-hearted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it short, the lad was too clever. It came out, after, that he'd took to bettin' his employers' money agen the rich men up at the Royal Exchange. An' the upshot was that one evenin', while he was drinkin' tea with his mother in his lovin' light-hearted way, in walks a brace o' constables, an' says, 'William Pinsent, young chap, I arrest thee upon a charge o' counterfeitin' old Gregory's handwritin', which is ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Harriet, was right in suspecting that Ward's feeling was more than the passing gallantry of a light-hearted boy? She bit her lip, narrowed her idle gaze on the meadows that flew by the car window. It would be a nine-days' wonder, his marriage at twenty-two with his mother's secretary, more than four years his senior. But after that? After that there would be nothing to ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... I trudged townward, light-hearted ... a poem began to come to me before I had gone a mile ... at intervals I sat down and ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... and most respectable period of his life, and no doubt he never was more light-hearted than when he delivered over to William the mortgage of his dukedom, with all its load of care, and received in return the sum of money squeezed by his brother from all the unfortunate convents in England, but ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... high. Some of them had friends and relatives among the victims. Yet this man in hiding had tossed me his name to play with, not even asking for my silence, though it was the price of his life, and all in a light-hearted contempt for the curious ways of the 'tony set,' as he ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
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