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Nan's baby boy had fallen asleep during the service and Donald was carrying the cherub. Old Hector's face went white; he gulped when his son spoke to him. "Hello, Dad. You looked lonely all by yourself in that big pew. Suppose we come up and sit with you next Sunday?" Old Hector paused and bent upon his son and Nan a terrible look.
"How do you suppose now, Széphalmi," continued the virago, her face radiant with infernal malice, "how do you suppose now that the headsman's wife managed to get hold of this gentle cherub, who is as much like her as an angel is to a devil?" "Woman!" hissed someone from within, though whether it was the old man or the young it was impossible to say.
Diana untied him, and gave him a pear-drop. "Bless him! He wants a bit of candy as well as the rest of us. He's a 'booful' dog with his patriotic ribbon on his collar. Stop barking, that's a cherub boy, or you'll drive your Auntie Diana crazy!"
It came from Dr. Beach, of Boston, via London. Such is the story, and I can only suppose that the sweet little cherub who sits up aloft had taken special charge of it, or it would have long ago withered. We slept at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, which we found fresh, sweet, bright, it must have been recently rejuvenated, I thought.
The same queer ecstatic brightness was upon his face and he was looking now, not at the grinning cherub, but at the distant horizon line of gray-green ocean and slate-gray sky. Cabot's grip on his shoulder tightened. "So you really want to marry her," he said.... "Humph!... Well, I'll be hanged! Loosh, you you well, you certainly can surprise a fellow when you really make a business of it."
And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Indeed, Billy Woods was in those days as fine a lad as you would wish to see, with the eyes of an inquisitive cherub and a big tow-head, which Frederick R. Woods fell into the habit of cuffing heartily, in order to conceal the fact that he would have burned Selwoode to the ground rather than allow any one else to injure a hair of it.
When I was about five years old, my mother, whose benevolent disposition often made her enter the cottages of the poor, brought to our house a child fairer than pictured cherub, an orphan whom she found in a peasant's hut; the infant daughter of a nobleman who had died fighting for Italy. Thus Elizabeth became the inmate of my parents' house.
Kate, for one, enjoyed it keenly, for little Gerard was put in her lap, and she doted on him; and it was like a cherub carried by a little angel, or a rosebud lying in the cup of a lily. So the vulgar jeered; and asked Luke how a thistle tasted, and if his mistress could not afford one with four legs, etc. Luke did not mind these jeers; but Kate minded them for him.
At this point adieus were exchanged, the Guardian-Mother went to sea, and the Cherub returned to Calcutta. The passengers were tired out and retired early. It was an easy run, from Diamond Harbor to Madras in two days and a half, for the Guardian-Mother. The weather was favorable, and the tourists used their time in getting rested.
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