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We're in the same number class." "Ye gods! Long yellow curls on a swart-faced black-eyed Russian." Bob Strahan laughed at the combination. Miss Carter looked at him reproachfully as she swung the conversation to the safe subject of Mrs. Bracken's niece. "I wonder what Mr. Wells will have to say about her?" she asked. "He can't steal her canary for she hasn't one," muttered Bob Strahan.
Those unmailed letters haunted him, however, day and night, so much so, in fact, that he took a journey to Boston one day and sought out the little cigar store again. But this time he had not mounted the stairs. His business was with the black-eyed boy.
In the early turmoil an hour after the explosion, a little black-eyed girl of five years, frightened and crying bitterly, was struggling through the throng in the Boreas' saloon calling her mother and father, but no one answered. Something in the face of Mr. Hawkins attracted her and she came and looked up at him; was satisfied, and took refuge with him.
Another, and the other corners were soon passed; both sprang like race-horses near the end of the course, but Cooper, with his little black-eyed girl aloft and the perspiration pouring down his manly brow and cheeks, was the first to reach the mark, and amidst such cheers and hurrahs as only pioneers can freely give, and as freely enjoy. The fruit he had won, but soon it was shared by all around.
Hardly more than a month before the end of the quarter, a little black-eyed baby daughter came to add to the prospective burdens of the Le Breton family.
As for Jenny, your first, fond flame! lively, romantic, black-eyed Jenny, the reader of "Thaddeus of Warsaw," who sighed and wore blue ribbons on her bonnet, who wrote love-notes, who talked so tenderly of broken hearts, who used a glass seal with a Cupid and a dart, dear Jenny! she is now the plump and thriving wife of the apothecary of the town!
Here is evidently 'a spirit of no common rate, of whom we might well desire further acquaintance, albeit at the cost of losing golden-haired, black-eyed Sister Belle. But why should we talk of 'loss? If, as Banquo says, 'there's husbandry in Heaven, why should we not in the 'Summer-land' find one and the same skull, with frugal economy, given to two owners?
A pretty, blooming, black-eyed girl was its sole occupant; and Rose, at the drawing-room window, ran out to meet her. "My darling Emily!" cried Rose, kissing the young lady she had been wishing at Jericho all day, "how glad I am to see you! Come in! You will stay to dinner, won't you?" "No, dear," said Miss Howard, "I can't. I just came over for you; I am alone, and want you to spend the evening.
Two little boys, of eight and nine years of age, were warming themselves, or seeking to warm themselves, at the stove, before retiring to their little bed in a small room adjoining. "Isn't this nice, mother?" said the younger, a bright, black-eyed boy. "Didn't I get a nice lot of chips to-day?"
Before the door was locked upon him, he called aloud, "Hilloa! doctor, hip another word, d'ye see." They forthwith returned to know what he wanted, and found him already in a sweat. "Hark ye, brother," said he, wiping his face, "I do suppose as how one may pass away the time in whistling the Black Joke, or singing Black-eyed Susan, or some such sorrowful ditty."
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