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'I don't question you, do I? Giles says women are dreadfully curious. 'I think you are dreadfully mysterious; but, as you are evidently ashamed of your occupations, I will withdraw my question. 'I do believe you are cross, Miss Garston: you are not a saint, after all, though Giles says you sing like a cherub: I don't know where he ever heard one, but that is his affair.
"So," he muttered, "black and blue; no bones broken, though no fault of yours, eh? my young cherub, if it wasn't. There why, what are you looking at in that way, M'liss, are you crazy? Hell's furies, don't hold the light so near! What are you doing; Hell ho, there! Help!" Too late, for in an instant he was a sheet of living flame.
She had no special brilliance, either of eye or complexion, such as would produce sudden flames in susceptible hearts, nor did she seem to demand instant homage by the form and step of a goddess; but we found her to be a good-looking woman of some thirty or thirty-three years of age, with soft, peach-like cheeks, rather too like those of a cherub, with sparkling eyes which were hardly large enough, with good teeth, a white forehead, a dimpled chin, and a full bust.
Bella drew his arm closer through hers as they walked along, and gave it a number of consolatory pats. 'Thank you, my dear, he said, as if she had spoken; 'I am all right, my dear. Well, and how do you get on, Bella? 'I am not at all improved, Pa. 'Ain't you really though? 'No, Pa. On the contrary, I am worse. 'Lor! said the cherub. 'I am worse, Pa.
Some of the preachers dared to talk about "Providence" the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch o'er the life of poor Jack, and lets him go to the bottom or furnish a dinner for sharks. Surely that Providence is a rare old fraud. A cripple, a paralytic, a sleeper, a dead man, could have done as much for the "Victoria" as Providence managed to do.
"Vengo da Roma" replied the boy, drawing himself up proudly. "The Roman peasant is a prince, mamma," said Eve quickly, in an undertone. Luigi glanced up instantly and smiled, and offered to her a little plaster cherub, silver-gilt, just spreading wings for flight. "It is for her," said he, with an appealing look at the mother. "For her, la principessina. I myself made it."
Having thus concluded his address, the amiable cherub embraced his daughter, and took his flight to the steamboat which was to convey him to London, and was then lying at the floating pier, doing its best to bump the same to bits.
"I ain't a-goin' to be mean to nobody," she said; "my gentlemen is always refined, even if they do sometimes forget theirselves when young and sporty. Mr. Erroll is now a-bed, sir, and asleep like a cherub, ice havin' been served three times with towels, extra. Would you be good enough to mention the bill to him in the morning? the grocer bein' sniffy."
In truth, when I last revisited that familiar scene and looked upon the flammantia mania of the old halls, "Massachusetts" with the dummy clock-dial, "Harvard" with the garrulous belfry, little "Holden" with the sculptured unpunishable cherub over its portal, and the rest of my early brick-and-mortar acquaintances, I could not help saying to myself that I had lived to see the peaceable establishment of the Red Republic of Letters.
His name was Joe Lake. He appeared young, and slipped off his superb bay with a grace and activity that were astounding in one of his huge bulk. He had a still, smooth face, with the color of red bronze and the expression of a cherub; big, soft, dark eyes; and a winning smile. He was surprisingly different from Whisner or any Mormon character that Shefford had naturally conceived.