Whilst he was sitting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and
wished that one of the king's principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the tower, and if she were alive still, or had perished.
"If I chose to go back to mother," he asked at last, "could you give me that
wish?"
I do not
wish to say dogmatically that the difference is irreducible; I think it highly probable that it is not.
But I have
wished, and still
wish earnestly, my dear count, that my life should have that last facet , after all the whimsical exhibitions I have seen myself make during fifty years.
Lecount or her master to yourself -- I
wish you to arrange immediately for my residing
I
wish, he said, that you would hear me as well as him, and then I shall see whether you and I agree.
"Do you
wish the notary to be sent for immediately?"
'I
wish,' returned, she, with a short laugh, 'that all the attractive points and desirable qualifications of the two gentlemen were united in one - that Lord Lowborough had Huntingdon's handsome face and good temper, and all his wit, and mirth and charm, or else that Huntingdon had Lowborough's pedigree, and title, and delightful old family seat, and I had him; and you might have the other and welcome.'
Gardiner; and after relating the circumstances, she thus went on:-- "I am now convinced, my dear aunt, that I have never been much in love; for had I really experiences that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and
wish him all manner of evil.
How could I
wish to make anything hard to you either by my words or conduct?
"Didn't Tip
wish that he'd never swallowed one of them?
If I
wish to see any part of the world or any person living, I need only express the
wish and it is shown in the picture."