But Sir James Chettam was no longer the diffident and acquiescent suitor: he was the anxious brother-in-law, with a devout admiration for his sister, but with a constant alarm lest she should fall under some new illusion almost as bad as marrying Casaubon.
Strange, piteous conflict in the soul of this unhappy man, who had longed for years to be better than he was—who had taken his selfish passions into discipline and clad them in severe robes, so that he had walked with them as a devout choir, till now that a terror had risen among them, and they could chant no longer, but threw out their common cries for safety.
" "It is a pity she was not a queen," said the devout Sir James.
" "You are a devout worshipper, I perceive.
He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.
" "Thanks be to goodness for that," breathed Marilla in devout relief.
The younger director came up with the idea for "Creed" when his own father, a devout "Rocky" fan, fell gravely ill (he has since recovered).
The most devout believer of this saying are the graduates.
"God gives us strength to bear much, if we try to do our best," she had said; and as he thought of this, a devout feeling came into his mind, and he folded his hands.
And at such times the devout soul bows its head to the Almighty and yields itself up to Him in childlike trust, praying, "Thy will be done with me!
It seemed as though the sound came from a church, deep in the calm, fragrant wood, and thither people looked with devout feelings.
