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"Come, aren't you two going to get to work?" demanded the ringmaster. "You attend to your own work. We'll look out for ours," snapped Dimples. "Yes, and if you think you can do better just come up and try," added Phil, with a good-natured laugh. "Up, Dimples!"
The concert was now going on, at the end nearest the menagerie tent, so Phil and Dimples took the ring at the other end of the tent, where they resumed their practice. After a short time Phil found himself able to stand erect with more confidence.
He held her round the waist with both arms, while, putting her hands up to her head, showing the dimples in her elbows, she set her hair straight under the kerchief and said in a calm voice: "You must be tactful, polite, charming, and you can only become that under feminine influence. But what a wicked, angry face you have!
She looked down at her hands her white, soft hands with little dimples at the finger-bases. "I'm just a home girl. That's all. A home girl. Now you will think I'm a silly stupid thing." She flashed a glance at him, liquid-eyed, appealing. I think you're the most wonderful girl I ever saw, that's what." He crushed her hand and she winced a little. "Home girl." Cora's name suited her to a marvel.
There was at such moments a peculiar laughing light in her gray eyes, which inspired one with an earnest desire to be in her confidence; she smiled with her soft cheek, the light tints of which would become a shade more pink from the excitement, as they softly rippled into dimples; she smiled with her forehead which would catch the light from her eyes and arch itself in its glory; but above all she smiled with her mouth, just showing, but hardly showing, the beauty of the pearls within.
"Oh, probably two or three times wearing around, providing they didn't come to mending before that," mused the "Pet," with a speculative look in her blue eyes, but with a quiver of the dimples that evoked another paroxysm of laughter from her audience.
For she put out to him her hand a most unlovely hand, all wrinkled at the back where dimples might once have been and corded with big blue veins and stained and shriveled and needle scarred. And he took her hand in his fat, pudgy, awkward one, and then he did this thing which never before in all his days he had done, this thing which never before he had dreamed of doing.
She went through life in a series of springs, each one in a different direction; but the motion of her attack was as splendid as that of a tiger. Often she was successful, and always she enjoyed herself. When she answered Pete's ring, and he looked up at her magnificent height, her dimples appeared in welcome. She really was glad to see him.
And pretty Mary Donnelly oh, how pretty! with the dimples and the peach-bloom on her face, her white teeth and coal-black hair ever pretty whether she was smiling at you or peeling potatoes.
"He knows how to turn a pretty compliment as well as he knows how to ride, Mr. Sparling," bubbled Dimples. "You should just hear the nice things he said to me back in the paddock," she teased. Phil blushed furiously. "Shall I ride again?" he asked. "Not necessary," answered the owner. "But, by the way, you might get up and do a somersault.
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