| I would like to thank you now for your kindnesses as I will be gone before you rise. |
| I grew to love and respect Xavier, who showed me many small kindnesses like tying my shoe-laces, wiping my nose or offering me the odd sweet. |
| But I feel such greed would have not been the correct response to the kindnesses I had already been shown. |
| One of his kindnesses was commissioning a review of my book, which appears in this issue. |
| They regularly shower their friends with wildly extravagant gifts, kindnesses which Phillip and Alice could never hope to return or repay. |
| The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad. |
