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"How backward!" "Then she knows all her letters by sight almost all, and Ermine can never get him to tell b from d; and you know how she can repeat so many little verses, while he could not even say, 'Thank you, pretty cow, this morning, when I wanted to hear him." "Vast interval!" "It is only eight months; but then Una is such a bright, forward child." "Highly-developed precocity!"
He sends us books for reviewal, and that is pleasant and improving, not to say profitable." "Little did I think you were in such straits!" he said, stroking the child's head, and waiting as though her presence were a restraint on inquiries, but she eagerly availed herself of the pause. "Aunt Ermine, please what shall I say about the chairs? Will you have the nice one and Billy when they come home?
Are not you glad it is over?" "I was thinking, Rose, what a difficult language plain English is sometimes." "What, Miss Rachel's? I couldn't understand one bit of her long story, except that she did not like weak tea." "It was my own that I meant," said Ermine. "But, Rose, always remember that a person who stands plain speaking from one like me has something very noble and generous in her.
In fact Ermine did not fully enter into Colin's present tactics; she saw that he was more than usually excited and interested about the F. U. E. E., but he had not explained his views to her, and she could only attribute his desire, to defer the investigation, to a wish that Mr. Mitchell should have time to return from London, whither he had gone to conclude his arrangements with Mr.
"What ever could give the old lady such a turn?" said Miss Katy. "I thought she never was sick." "I suspect it's high living. I understand she and her family ate up a whole ermine cape last month, and it disagreed with them." "For my part, I can't conceive how the Moths can live as they do", said Miss Katy with a face of disgust. "Why, I could no more eat worsted and fur, as they do "
The girl said nothing, but bowed her head, and the long wolverine-fur fringe of her ermine hood blew across her broad, dark face. The sky above them was an intense velvety black, changing to bands of Indian red on the horizon, where the great stars burned like street-lamps.
She said she must stay at home, and make the morning calls that the charms of croquet had led her to neglect, and in about half an hour from that time she was announced in Miss Williams' little parlour, and entered with a hurried, panting, almost pursued look, a frightened glance in her eyes, and a flush on her cheek, such as to startle both Ermine and the Colonel.
Philip afterwards admitted that the English were not conquered by a Damme site; but the Pope absolved him for two dollars. It was now decided by the royal subjects that John should be still further restrained, as he had disgraced his nation and soiled his ermine.
Enthusiastically wedded to the cause of liberty, he deeply deplored the doleful condition of his beloved country. The common weal was his sole object; nothing selfish, nothing mercenary soiled his ermine character.
While we sat, we devoured the landscape, the twelve glaciers spreading around us their carpet of swansdown and ermine, sinking into crevasses of a magical transparency, and raising their blocks, shaped into needles, or into Gothic steeples with pierced arches. The architecture of the glacier is marvelous. Its decorations are the decorations of fairyland.
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