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Off to bed!" They got up resignedly, for they were really very good children. "Say your prayers here before you go," said the Lady. The three little figures all knelt on the rug, Baby still cuddling her Wriggly. "You pray, Laddie, and the rest can join in." "God bless every one I love," said the high, clear child-voice.
We get pretty close to the edge sometimes and never know how near we are to destruction," Vic had said to Elinor in here on the April day. It was not Vic's guardian angel, but little Bug whose white face was thrust between him and his victim, and the touch of a soft little hand and the pleading child-voice that cried: "Don't kill him, Vic. He's frough of fighting now. Don't hurt him no more."
Into my very being that child-voice passed, and it was a new music and a new joy. I can give the reader no notion of it, because there is not in nature anything with which I can compare it.
'Why not! Whom have I in all the world to tell me, save you? said fondly the sweet child-voice. They did not take away the little Christmas-tree, but left it on its pedestal at the far end of the long room through the winter; and as the cross melted slowly, a new one took its place, and shone aloft in the firelight. But its story was not told.
"But me knows," said a small sweet little child-voice from the midst of a bundle of furs. It was the voice of Pussi. That Eskimo atom had been so overcome with sleep at the breaking up of the festivities of the previous night that she was unable to distinguish between those whom she loved and those for whom she cared not.
The gentle little child-voice seemed to astonish the woman, although after an instant she made surly answer, "Whose business is it?" "Wouldn't it be easier," said Daisy, not looking at her, "if you had something to help you get the weeds up? Don't you want a fork, or a hoe, or something?" "I've got forks," said the cripple, sullenly. "I use 'em to eat with."
What a depth of meaning was unwittingly given to the last two words by the emphasis of the child-voice. "Warm" "Again!" The lady almost burst into tears as she thought of all that they implied. But her services were required at the harmonium. With a parting pat on Martha's curly head, and a bright smile, she hurried away to ascend the platform.
One foot up and t'other foot down, Jacky Barber's coming to town." But she loved the scraps of sea-song that the old Captain still hummed over his work: "Baltimore," and "Blow a Man Down," and half a dozen other salt-water ditties: and it might have been strange to less accustomed ears than Bob Peet's to hear the sweet child-voice carolling merrily: "Boney was a warrior, Weigh! heigh! oh!
Then Girasole descended the stairs, and the lady again sank upon her knees. Thus far there seemed a spell upon Dacres; but this last incident and the clear child-voice of Minnie seemed to break it. He could no longer keep silence. His emotion was as intense as ever, but the bonds which had bound his lips seemed now to be loosened. "Oh, Arethusa!" he moaned. At the sound of his voice Mrs.
Even when the others joined in, one could still hear that child-voice soaring and singing far above the rest, as if some little angel were playing with the echoes among the arches of the roof. A proud native informed the strangers that it was a poor boy whose exquisite voice was the pride of the town, and would in time make his fortune.
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