She longed for affection: "I don't know why my aunt doesn't love me," she wrote; "after all if I'm not part of the family it's not my fault...
To spend my evening with the ones who longed for my affection and attention more than I could possibly understand.
There is a great quote from author Mary Ann Evans, also known by her pen name George Eliot, that says: "We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.
Mr. Bland's voice, a model for soul men in his wake, is velvety, humble and long-suffering, begging for affection with suave melancholy.
Yet in this tale of unrequited reaching, there is a curiosity: in a way, the West longs for Russia's affections just as much.
In tones that are velvety, humble and long-suffering, he begs for affection with suave melancholy.
In tones that are velvety, humble and long-suffering, he begs for affection with suave melancholy and smoldering fury.
In tones that are velvety, humble and long-suffering, he begs for affection with suave melancholy; while his old high shout is a little ratchety now, his timing still makes a lover's pain exquisite.
They were two guests who had lived in their shared courteousness for so long that they had mistaken it for affection or warmth.
And here's the reason – the BBC belongs not to the state, to the government or the trustees, but to us, the licence payers and, more generally, to the British public whose trust in and long-suffering affection for the corporation cannot indefinitely be taken for granted.
Vitally, they are doing it from a position of long-held affection for the club.
