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Tea had been brought in, and she was busy with the arrangement of a branch of wild cherry in a corner of the room where its pearl and silver blossoms shone out against a background of dull purple, when the door was hastily opened, and a curly-haired youth stood on the threshold who smiled at sight of her. "You are here, mother! That's jolly! I thought I might find you gone."

Jeffrey who was talking to him then, and I wondered to see him look so pleased when everybody in and about the house was pale as ashes." "Do you know the name of that boy?" I carelessly inquired. "His name? O no. He is one of Raucher's waiters; the curly-haired one. You see him everywhere; but I don't know his name.

Herodotus, in an incontrovertible passage, alludes to the Egyptians as "black and curly-haired" a peculiarly significant statement from one used to the brunette Mediterranean type; in another passage, concerning the fable of the Dodonian Oracle, he again alludes to the swarthy color of the Egyptians as exceedingly dark and even black.

Yet the object which created such a powerful sensation in the captain's breast was not in itself calculated to cause amazement or alarm, for it was nothing more than a pretty-faced, curly-haired fisher-boy, who, with lips parted and his bright eyes gazing intently, was listening to the preacher with all his powers.

The deal was promptly closed and a little black negro went grinning down the street with Miss Minerva's old bustle tied across his face, leaving behind him a curly-haired dog. "Ain't he sweet?" said Jimmy, hugging the fluffy white ball close to his breast, "we got to name him, Billy." "Le's name her Peruny Pearline," was the suggestion of the other joint owner.

"You mean that curly-haired clerk who wears the ruby scarf pin?" laughed Billie. "What's his name?" "Delosia Moxley," answered Elinor. "He is always giving Nancy pointers about the latest modes. He was responsible for that Spanish veil she would wear last winter " "He was not," interrupted Nancy. "He merely told me they were the fashion in New York. I needn't have bought it if I hadn't wanted to."

Astro, the giant Space Cadet from Venus, charged toward the ball like a blazing rocket, while his two unit mates flanked him, ready to block out their opponents and give Astro a clear shot at the ball. On the left wing, Tom Corbett, curly-haired and snub-nosed, ran lightly down the field, while on the opposite wing, Roger Manning, his blond hair cut crew style, kept pace with him easily.

"Well, for two Earthworms, you've certainly been acting like a couple of space aces!" He let that soak in while he toyed with the gleaming Academy ring on his finger. He allowed it to flash in the light of the window port, then slipped it off and flipped it over to Corbett. "Know what that is?" he asked the curly-haired cadet. "Yes, sir," replied Tom. "Your Academy graduation ring." "Uh-huh.

One day a scene took place before him: the sailors were carrying wood, and one of them, the young, curly-haired and gay Yefim, passing the deck of the ship with hand-barrows, said loudly and angrily: "No, he has no conscience whatever! There was no agreement that I should carry wood. A sailor well, one's business is clear but to carry wood into the bargain thank you!

Being a heavy stick the dog has held it tightly by the middle, and the marks of his teeth are very plainly visible. The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff. It may have been yes, by Jove, it is a curly-haired spaniel." He had risen and paced the room as he spoke. Now he halted in the recess of the window.