softened

Marilla looked at Anne and softened at sight of the child’s pale face with its look of mute misery--the misery of a helpless little creature who finds itself once more caught in the trap from which it had escaped.

Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.

The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin.

But if you will listen to his letter, you may, perhaps, be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself.”