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His very gay aunt lay back in her great soft chair, pushing with both fair hands the masses of chestnut hair from her forehead, and smiling at him out of her golden brown eyes the jolliest, frankest of eyes the sort even women trust instinctively at first glimpse.
"I have struck a vein of good luck to-day," thought he; "and now if my little friend the chestnut seller can only tell me the names of these men, I have done a good day's work. I do hope that he has not gone."
The prayer said, they all moved onward, past the first houses of the village and past the open smithy with its shelter of twisted chestnut boughs, beneath which the horses were protected from the sun while they were being shod.
The two companies claim the honor of presenting him to your Majesty." Cinq-Mars, who was on horseback behind the old captain, took off his hat and showed his pale face, his large, dark eyes, and his long, chestnut hair. "Those features remind me of some one," said the King; "what say you, Cardinal?"
In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was perceptible.
Fill little moulds that have been buttered with washed butter, cover the tops with split almonds and sifted sugar; bake from thirty to forty minutes in a moderate oven. These cakes are sometimes served hot with apricot sauce. Chestnut Croquettes.
You do not know the temptation it would be to fall back into the old way. I am afraid I could not stand it. I would rather just slip into the congregation beside you, Father, and sing to God when my heart sings, and keep still when it doesn't." So her father yielded the point to her conscience. "God bless you, Winnie," he said with glistening eyes, as he stroked her chestnut locks.
We are only waiting for you and M. de Lescure, to hang him as a traitor from the big chestnut out on the road- side. You might have seen as you came in, that they have the ropes and everything ready." Henri shuddered as he followed his cousin into the house.
"But you were on the far side of the hedge on the morning we tried the horse, and Lisle was down. He wasn't conscious when I broke through the thorns." "Quite correct; but it's most unlikely he lost consciousness from the fall, and he was lying with his face turned toward the jump it wasn't until the chestnut came down on his shoulder that he was badly hurt.
But, though his heyday of fashion was gone, Sir George still held his place among the musicians of the old school, conducted occasionally at the Ancient Concerts and the Philharmonic, and his glees are still favourites after public dinners, and are sung by those old bacchanalians, in chestnut wigs, who attend for the purpose of amusing the guests on such occasions of festivity.
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