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A stenographer, with a fluffy pompadour that dipped distractingly at one side, and a gold watch suspended around the neck like a locket, and with sleeves that came no farther than the elbow and heels higher than any riding boot Andy ever owned in his life, and with teeth that were very white and showed a glint of gold here and there, and eyes that looked at one with insincere gravity, and fingers with nails that shone fingers that pinched red lips together meditatively a stenographer who has all these entrancing attributes, Andy discovered, may yet lack those housewifely accomplishments that make a man dream of a little home for two.

She is represented as "distractingly pretty," and we hear a great deal about her "kitten-like beauty," and her graceful movements, looks, and attitudes. But this is all that can be said for her. Her mind has no room for anything but looks and dress; she has no feeling for anybody but her little self; and is only too truly declared by Mrs.

Margery wore a soft grey flannel, the colour of a dove's throat, adorned with rows upon rows of silver braid and sparkling silver buttons; while her big grey hat had nothing but a silver cord and tassel tied round it in Spanish fashion. Polly was all in sailor blue, with a distractingly natty little double-breasted coat and great white rolling collar.

She was a trifle more womanly, her form was more fully developed, and if she was a shade paler, it only made her loveliness more distractingly bewitching than ever. "Lucky Ned!" thought George. "To have been the chosen lover of such a woman as this ay, though only for a few short hours, how willingly would I change places with you!"

The hair still curled distractingly behind the pretty ears, and fluffed into burnished bronze where the wind had loosened it. The cheeks were paler now, though the rose-flush still glowed warmly through the clear, smooth skin. The mouth Billy's mouth had always been fascinating, Bertram suddenly decided, as he watched it now. He wanted to paint it again.

The hunters clustered around with exclamations of admiration; Rosalie, distractingly pretty in her white wool kilts and cap, knelt down and touched the fierce, long-nosed head and stroked the furry jowl. "Oh, Delancy!" she wailed, "why didn't you 'plug' him as you promised?

As she spoke she looked distractingly pretty and tantalizing. But if she had calculated to floor Carmichael with the initial, half-promising, wholly mocking use of his name she had reckoned without cause. The cowboy received that greeting as if he had heard her use it a thousand times or had not heard it at all. Helen decided if he was acting a part he was certainly a clever actor.

An aggressive clock with a boldly painted frame was beating loudly. Beneath the floor the oft-repeated gnawing of a mouse or rat went on, distractingly. From the other side of the road, in spite of double-windows and closed doors, came the wail of an ill-treated violin. "One of these days I'm goin' over to Carreau's an' smash that fiddle," suddenly asserted Sophy, truculently.

"You see," said the wise young woman, "it is this way: all that is my very own. I am your very own, so what is in the purse is your very own." Logic is great greatest when the logician is distractingly pretty; then, at least, it is sure to prevail unless, indeed, the opponent be blind, or another woman. This is why they do not examine ladies orally in logic at the great colleges.

The cattle, during the siege, had of course to pasture on any waste land inside the lines they could find, and gathered in dense, distractingly noisy herds; but though this gun was never tired of firing on the mobs, I do not think he ever got more than one calf. There was a gun on Lombard's Kop called Silent Susan so called because the shell arrived before the report a disgusting habit in a gun.