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Bettine was small and dark. There was nothing "angelic" about her. William had noticed her vaguely in school before and had hardly looked upon her as a distinct personality. But one recreation in the playground he stood leaning against the wall by himself, scowling at Evangeline Fish. She was surrounded by a crowd of admirers, and was prattling to them artlessly in her angelic voice.
Come away, Sandy! Come away, Peter, man!" For all his sailing, the captain was a true landsman, and when under pressure his thin nautical veneer slipped off him, and his language was not of the sea. "Come away, Sandy," he called artlessly, "and gee her a bit. Gee!" "I can have the law on you for obstructing the King's Highway!" thundered the man on the bridge.
He could not have told why his eyes grew strangely dim as he heard it now, or why a strange tightening came around his heart. He was but an ignorant lad of the woods. It was not for him to know that these few notes so few, so simple, so artlessly blown by a rude boatman touched the deep fountain of the soul, loosing the mighty torrent pent up in every human breast.
Come to the fair this year!" "They say it's fine, that Soulanges fair!" cried La Pechina, artlessly. "I'll tell you what it is in two words," said Catherine. "If you are handsome, you are well ogled. What is the good of being as pretty as you are if you are not admired by the men? Ha! when I heard one of them say for the first time, 'What a fine sprig of a girl! all my blood was on fire.
Referring to this exploit, Tytler, in a laudatory epistle addressed to Lunardi, tells of the difficulties he had had to contend with, and artlessly reveals the cool, confident courage he must have displayed. No shelter being available for the inflation, and a strong wind blowing, his first misfortune was the setting fire to his wicker gallery.
I will go down; I am going out. Madame had a basket in her hand. She held it quietly by her capacious skirt, at the far side, and made no allusion to the preparation, neither to the direction in which she proposed walking, and prattling artlessly and affectionately she marched by my side. Thus we reached the stile at the sheep-walk, and then I paused.
"I have heard it said that you were the one to blame in the matter, and that you feared the dangers of a pregnancy," said the chevalier. "I!" she said artlessly. "I would buy a child with a hundred years of purgatory if I could."
"Another?" he cried, with discouragement and alarm. "You must understand thoroughly, before you throw in your lot with us even for a few days, what our position really is." "Is it very bad?" asked Bertram Jay artlessly. "No one has anything to do with us, no one speaks to us, no one looks at us." "Really?" stared the young man. "We've no social existence, we're utterly despised."
She artlessly and unconsciously revealed to him her life and its inspirations, and soon proved that her mind was as active as her hands. She discovered that Lane had mines of information at command, and she plied him with questions about the North, Europe, and such parts of the East as he had visited.
She had pretty, arch, gray eyes, a skin as white as a magnolia blossom, and a fluff of wonderful pale hair artlessly looped and pinned to look as if it had blown by accident into its place which yet exactly suited the face it framed.
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