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Thou wouldst make far more money in secret service. It would be easy to change thy name. Keep thy descent quiet, and be ready to eat humble-pie for a short time. There is no saying to what thou mightest rise in this world." "And the other?" Delecresse felt himself an unfledged cherub by the side of Sir Piers. "Bah!" Sir Piers snapped his fingers. "What do such as we know about that?
He protested he had reason to think the earl was humanizing, though he might be killing a woman in the process. 'Could she wish for better? he asked, with at least the gravity of the undermining humourist; and he started Owain to course an idea when he remarked of Lord Fleetwood: 'Imagine a devil on his back on a river, flying a cherub.
She then very absurdly referred to the baby, who had waked up and made his presence felt, as to whether this was, or was not, an exaggeration, suggesting that he had roused himself to confirm it. Did he, she asked, want to say his great-Granny was as young as the best, and was he a blessed little cherub?
There was old Time with his beard and scythe, a broken column, veiled mourners and a dejected-looking cherub, and the stiff funereal urn; but Elizabeth was looking at a cluster of grassy mounds under a yew tree, with simple headstones, and here and there a cross. She looked up at Malcolm with a quiet smile. "Have they sent you to find me?" she asked.
She was standing the next morning in the room where the three sisters had slept it was early, only five o'clock in the morning, but this was Poppy's London hour for rising. Jasmine was sitting up in bed and regarding her earnestly, Primrose was also awake, but Daisy slept like a cherub. "It ain't what we dreamt of," continued Poppy "it's work, and it's dirt, and it's dust, and it's smuts.
Did I know? Yes, he told me. He told me so just now.” Ivan stood in the middle of the room, and still spoke in the same brooding tone, looking at the ground. “Who is he?” asked Alyosha, involuntarily looking round. “He’s slipped away.” Ivan raised his head and smiled softly. “He was afraid of you, of a dove like you. You are a ‘pure cherub.’ Dmitri calls you a cherub.
Bachelder painted the small thing, kneeling by her mother's side before the great gold altar. Her starched skirt, with its band of red velours, stands of itself leveling her head, so that she looks for all the world like a serious cherub peering out from a wonderfully embroidered bath-cabinet. But ah! the serious devotion of the faces!
Long he stood there and pondered, not that he had need to take himself to task, because his course was already mapped out, but the gates of the past had been opened by these discoveries, and he could in imagination see his mother walking about these scenes she had so often described to him, a fair young girl, with golden hair and blue eyes, so like the cherub who was doubtless still in the loving arms of her doting grandfather, the stern czar of the Hudson Bay post.
"One of them nippers as is always stealing our fruit," continued Dan'l. "Why, Dexter," cried the doctor; "you there!" He stared wildly at the boy, who, with his legs kicking to and fro in the vinery in search of support, looked down from the roof of the building like a sculptured cherub, with arms instead of wings. "Yes, it's all right," said the boy coolly.
I dare say it's only right; I would lend them the cherub occasionally, and you might let them have Mr. Munroe twice a week." She laughed, but her eyes sought her sister's with a certain watchfulness of expression. Christie shrugged her shoulders, with a suggestion of disgust. "Don't joke. We ought to have thought of all this before."
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