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No, no, it was we who were wrong wrong in our estimate of her. We expected too much we expected more than she was able to give more than a woman of her character was able to give. She simply acted as she had acted all her life doing what she liked best refraining from doing what was uncongenial what did not amuse her. Poor, beautiful butterfly! she was broken sadly at the finish.
As, later that night, the young inventor came in sight of his home, and the various buildings and shops surrounding it, his first glance was toward the shed which contained his monoplane, BUTTERFLY. That little craft was Tom's pet.
"Come, My Lord Prince," urged De Vac, "methinks the butterfly did but alight without the wall, we can have it and return within the garden in an instant." "Go thyself and fetch it," replied the Prince; "the King, my father, has forbid me stepping without the palace grounds." "Come," commanded De Vac, more sternly, "no harm can come to you."
The man in a green dressing gown with floating hair had a face she knew; so had the lady in the yellow ruff. And was that not the old crest, the Delavie butterfly, with the motto, Ma Vie et ma Mie, carved on the mantelpiece?
Fido thought that the ant was right; but, as he no longer dared advise, he contented himself with shaking his head as they set out. Pensive, on the contrary, said that the ant was a selfish fellow, and that, if life were made only for enjoyment, the butterfly was wiser than he. At the same time, and with a lighter wing than ever, the swallow soared upward to lead the way.
"You surely must have wings great, butterfly ones only we are too dull to see them. You were exactly like one of my pictures come to life." He was visibly excited. "Husband disposed of, available lovers unattractive, asks me to drive her out here; that's one half," Constance's mind raced. "Wife on the shelf, variable temperament, studio in town; and that's the other.
"Alexander is indeed a butterfly, fluttering from flower to flower, and apt to be frivolous over serious matters, but at this moment he is enslaved by a vision that of a dead girl; and only last night, I believe, he pledged himself to Ino, the pretty daughter of our neighbor Skopas. Beauty is to him the highest thing in life; and how should it be otherwise, for he is an artist!
With Dame Charter, and often also with her uncle in company, this bright young girl hovered over fair fabrics which were spread before her; circled about jewels, gems, and feathers, and revelled in tender colours as would a butterfly among the blossoms, dipping and tasting as she flew. There were some fine folk in Spanish Town, and with this pleasant society of the capital Mr.
For although she had once heard the Butterfly Man gravely assure Miss Sally Ruth Dexter that the only ancestor his immediate Flints were sure of was Flint the pirate, my mother still clung firmly to the illusion of Family. Blood will tell! As for me, I was equally sure that blood was telling now; and telling in the atrocious tongue of the depths. I felt that the end had come.
"I'm sorry his wing got broken," he said. "I wonder why God makes butterflies' wings so awful brittle that they can't be caught without spoiling 'em. The other wing ain't hurt much, anyhow." A sudden thought struck Anderson. "Why, when did you get this butterfly?" he asked. The boy flushed vividly.
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