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With a sort of elf-like confidence and contentment the feeble, wee fingers closed and curled round hers, and held her fast!
Mellicent gazed at her friend in reflective fashion. She called up before her a picture of Rob's great stooping form, his shaggy head, and overhanging brows, and contrasted it mentally with that of the slim little, neat little, prettiest of elf-like figures before her. No, it was not in the least likely that Rob would disappoint Peggy Saville.
Do you know what it is which you are fighting from your neck?" "This?" Kirk succeeded in locating the nettle that had annoyed him. "Yes. It is cow-eetch. Wait! By-and-by you will scratch like everything." The young lady laughed with the most mischievous, elf-like enjoyment of this prospect. "All right. Just for that, I will wait."
Ernestine moved, elf-like, in the light of the sinking fire. She took no notice of the man who watched her, being plainly too busy to heed his attention. But her duties were over at last, and she turned from the ruddy firelight and moved, half reluctantly it seemed, towards him. She reached him, and stood before him. "I've done now," she said. "You can rake out the fire. Good-night!"
He knew that if Celia changed her mind at the last minute and departed with the others, life would not be worth the living. But the elf-like little creature showed no signs of vacillation.
The mistress of the Hall as diminutive and elf-like as ever in spite of the added dignity of her sweeping silk and the draperies of black lace with which her tiny head was adorned kept tight hold of Catherine, and called a gentleman standing in a group just behind her. 'Roger, here are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elsmere. Mr.
She must be wondering where I am! But I did not leave her, she left me when the Duke took charge of me I lost sight of her then." "Well, we must go and find her now" and Jocelyn again folded his arms closely round the dainty, elf-like figure in its moonlight- blue draperies. "Innocent, look at me!"
"Don't you be after believing a word of it, Miss Pixie dear. It would be a cold bed that would keep Jock Magee from driving ye home this night. And the size of ye too. You've grown out of knowledge! It's a fine strapping lass you will be one of these days." And Jock gazed with simulated amazement at the elf-like figure as it stepped forward into the lamplight.
The Scherzo is a kind of hunting-piece, full of the sparkle, the color and romance of bugles and horns, a spirited fanfare broken by hushed phrases of strings or wood, or an elf-like mystic dance on the softened call of trumpets. The Trio sings apart, between the gay revels, in soft voices and slower pace, like a simple ballad.
"Did I blow you out of window?" said a girl's voice; and there behind her, in a half-timid attitude, stood Betty Macdonald, a vision of white muslin, its frills and capes a little tossed by the wind, the pointed face and golden hair showing small and elf-like under the big shady hat. "Oh, do come in!" said Marcella, shyly; "Lady Winterbourne will be in directly."
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