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"Truly there can be no harm in looking at this," she thought, and turning it to the light she stepped back to examine it. 'Twas the picture of a black-eyed, black-haired child a little girl, scarcely three years old, judging from the baby face, and the fat, dimpled hands turning so earnestly the leaves of a picture book. One tiny foot was bare, and one encased in a red morocco shoe.
He was formerly a very active man, both intellectually and physically. He had a prosperous business in the country town on the outskirts of which he lives. He was one of those tall spare men, black-haired and black-eyed, capable of bearing great fatigue, full to the brim of vitality. He was a great reader, fond of music and art; married to a no less cultivated and active wife, but childless.
A fair woman, bright-haired and grey-eyed, kind of countenance, soft of speech, yet outspoken and nought timorous; tall according to our stature, but very goodly of fashion; a woman of the House of the Rose, and my troth-plight maiden." They looked on each other and shook their heads, and the black-haired damsel spake: "We know of no such a woman, nor of the kindred which thou namest."
"Here we are; come in quick," replied Hache. He was a bold-looking, black-haired man, red-faced, unshaven, and battered with the effects of brandy-drinking. They turned into a grimy old-iron shop. A woman sitting in a corner fixed her eyes upon them like a watch-dog.
"'It is, answered Almia, 'and with five balls. "'Please put it back in your pocket, said the officer, who, for the first time during the terrible battle, showed signs of fear. 'A girl with a pistol, said he, 'makes me shudder. Why do you stand there? he shouted to the three men. 'Come here and take her away. "But they did not obey, and the black-haired soldier stepped forward.
"Fifteen!" "I assure you, yes. All were black-haired except one, who was brown the first brown-haired child in the history of the house. 'Bantam' they used to call him when they were girls and boys together 'Bantam." "Girls! You said brothers!" "Ah, yes. Girls as well. Twelve, twelve girls." "Twelve girls and fifteen boys!" "I assure you, yes. A record.
Molly O'Flanagan, as she called herself, was a rosy-cheeked, black-haired, pert girl of about eighteen, who under ordinary circumstances would have found herself able to answer, with a due degree of smartness, any question which might have been addressed to her.
During the morning Henry did not trouble himself about Sylvia and what she would think about it all. Towards noon, however, he began to dread going home and facing her. When he started he felt fairly cowardly. He stopped at the drug store and bought a pound of peppermints. Albion Bennet waited on him. Albion Bennet was an intensely black-haired man in his forties.
You saw us?" said Maria Dolores, answering the question with question. "Him I have seen many times every day for a week at least," said Frau Brandt. "But I never before saw you talking with him. Who is he?" She was a small, brown, square-built, black-haired, homely-featured old woman, in a big, round starched white cap and a flowing black silk gown.
Now to prevent the time to come, it may be said about the Runaways, that when they had been a little while amongst the Burgdalers, well fed and well clad and kindly cherished, it was marvellous how they were bettered in aspect of body, and it began to be seen of them that they were well-favoured people, and divers of the women exceeding goodly, black-haired and grey-eyed, and very clear-skinned and white- skinned; most of them were young, and the oldest had not seen above forty winters.
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