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She wuz greatly surprised, and not knowin' he wuz what he said he wuz, asked him polite to go away and select some other bride. But the next day he come back, sent in his card and a autograph letter from Queen Victoria, and agin expressed his desire to marry the bright-eyed little Egyptian.
A few straggling couples like themselves came in with the same sheepish but bright-eyed hesitancy. At the elevator Miss Blondheim and Mr. Epstein were lingering over good-nights. The quartette rode up to their respective floors together the girls regarding each other with shy, happy eyes; the men covering up their self-consciousness with sallies.
Pardon me one moment, there is a wrinkle in your left stocking, silk stockings are very apt to " But here the legs of the Gentleman-in-Powder planted themselves quivering on the threshold to announce: "Viscount Devenham!" He still carried his arm in a sling, but, excepting this, the Viscount was himself again, Bright-eyed, smiling and debonair.
They both laughed; indeed, quite a dimpled, bright-eyed, rosy, innocent pair, though I think Leonidas was the more maidenly. "And," added Leonidas, with breathless eagerness, "I can sometimes write to to Jim, and inclose your letter." "Angel of wisdom! certainly. Well, now, let's see have you got any letters for the post to-day?"
Sometimes, again, bright-eyed young girls are attracted, like butterflies to bright flowers, to the gaudy signs of the Bowery museums. But this is premature. The unconstrained freedom of the street, therefore, is undoubtedly one great source of danger to the young but there are many others which, in varying degrees, conspire to ensnare and corrupt them.
"He was," Barnum afterward said, "not two feet high; he weighed less than sixteen pounds, and was the smallest child I ever saw that could walk alone; he was a perfectly formed bright-eyed little fellow, with light hair and ruddy cheeks, and he enjoyed the best of health.
But, though dead, she yet lived to him in the person of a bright-eyed baby, a little girl, born but three months before her mother's death. Who can tell how John watched and prayed over that infant, or how he felt that there was something left for him in this world yet, and thought that if his child would live, he should not go down to the grave a lonely desolate man.
Bela tried to answer him, and could not. Her iron will was no longer able to hide the evidences of agitation. Her lips were parted and her breath was coming fast. She kept her eyes down. There was a highly charged silence in the shack. All knew that the turn of the drama depended on the next word to be spoken. They watched Bela, bright-eyed.
'And all respectable folk are in their beds. At night all cats are grey. No one heeded him. Estella was sitting upright, bright-eyed and wakeful. The General looked out of the window at every moment. Across the river they could see lights moving, and many houses that had been illuminated were suddenly dark.
"I sometimes wish," she began at length, "I had a bright-eyed girl like you to help me find and place things." Zora made no comment. "Sometimes Bles helps me," added Miss Smith, guilefully. Zora looked sharply at her. "Could I help?" she asked, almost timidly. "Why, I don't know," the answer was deliberate. "There are one or two little things perhaps "
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