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Then the limpness became softness, and the very creases took the lines of beauty. Molly, in a daintily clean pink muslin, did not look half so elegantly dressed as Cynthia. The grave eyes that the latter raised when she had to be presented to Roger had a sort of child-like innocence and wonder about them, which did not quite belong to Cynthia's character.
Such a colour and complexion, but no expression, not even the sarcastic turn of the lip of the mother. 'Perfectly child-like, amiable, and silly, thought Miss Hall, 'and yet Colonel Vaughan admires that statue more than the noble face and grand expression of my Freda.
"Here!" he answered emotionally, and he believed it was the truth. She stood looking meditatively out of the window, not at him. "In Pontiac?" she asked presently, turning with a child-like surprise. "Ah, yes, yes! I know one of the people; suitable for Pontiac; but is it wise? She is pretty but is it wise?" She was adroitly suggesting Elise Malboir, whose little romance she had discovered.
Of course it was not a very commendable deed for which the tramp was now in prison, but it was slight in comparison to the crimes of which he was suspected. Muller bent lower over the unconscious form and was surprised to see a gentle smile spread over the face before him. It brightened and changed the coarse rough face and gave it for a moment a look of almost child-like innocence.
"You never knew Doctor Schermerhorn, did you, Helen?" he asked. "The funny little old German? Indeed, I did! He was a dear!" "He was one of the greatest scientists living and he was a dear! That goes far to explain him a gentle, wise, child-like, old man with imagination and a Heaven-seeking soul. He picked me up as a boy, and was a father to me.
And then, sated with destruction, smile and glisten beneath the morning sunbeams with all the sportiveness of child-like innocence. No, no speak not to us of the "music of the wind."
"Which sorts do you like best?" he asked, this time with a distinct betrayal of eagerness in his voice. "Those with all the colours, over there." Three chubby arms pointed to a distant tangle of sweet-pea. Child-like, they had asked for what lay farthest from hand, but Octavian trotted off gleefully to obey their welcome behest.
Ortensia and Stradella knew none of these things. He had grown famous almost without an effort when scarcely more than a boy, and fame did not desert him; and now that he had overcome obstacles and passed through danger to be happy, he believed with child-like faith that such happiness, once got, must be safe from outward harm, since it dwelt in the heart, where no one could see it, to envy it as men envied worldly glory.
We in the modern world need, above many things, a new understanding of forgiveness. In spite of much that has been written by our really great Christian thinkers who have been blessed with the child-like heart, and in spite of the experience of the many who have tried it out, forgiveness is still regarded by the great multitude as a somewhat difficult Christian duty.
The mature expression was passing rapidly from Nina's face, and the child-like one returning in its stead as she continued, "I couldn't bear to think of Arthur, and before I came home I determined never to live with him as his wife.
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