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Esperance Darbois, the only daughter of the philosopher, was fifteen years old. She was long and slim without being angular. The flower head that crowned this slender stem was exquisitely fair, with the fairness of a little child, soft pale-gold, fair.
Yells of triumphant laughter break from the McGill crowd. The referee is in great difficulty. He has a reputation for courage and fairness. He hesitates a moment or two, and then, while the crowd wait breathless for his decision, says, "You can all see that it is almost impossible to be certain, but on the whole I shall give it a 'hold."
We are to see him hereafter applying this sort of science on a grand scale and for a great end. His early discipline in it is a dull subject, interesting only where it displays, as it sometimes does, the perfect fairness with which this ambitious man could treat his own claims as against those of a colleague and competitor.
Maria Clementina seemed at first unaware of her kinsman's presence, and he began to hope he might avoid any private talk with her; but when the automaton had been dismissed and the card-tables were preparing, one of her gentlemen summoned him to her side. As usual, she was highly rouged in the French fashion, and her cold blue eyes had a light which set off the extraordinary fairness of her skin.
"The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences," said you in your report, "can accept the conclusions of the author only as far as it likes." I venture to hope, sir, that, after you have read this letter, if your prudence still restrains you, your fairness will induce you to do me justice.
She had seen advertisements. Might her own hair be like that "like tarnished gold," she put it? Of course you had to keep putting the stuff on at the roots as it grew out. But would her colour blend with that shade? Patricia's skin had the warm fairness of new milk, but Winona was dusky. Perhaps a deeper tint of auburn
Then fared Sigurd after his hawk, and he saw where sat a fair woman, and knew that it was Brynhild, and he deems all things he sees there to be worthy together, both her fairness, and the fair things she wrought: and therewith he goes into the hall, but has no more joyance in the games of the men folk.
The noble king wondered on her answer, and said, that it is not seemly to overcome women with sword and with woodness, but rather with fairness and with love: and therefore he granted them freedom and made them subject to his empire, not with violence but with friendship and with love.
"My alternative," said Lilly, "is an alternative for no one but myself, so I'll keep my mouth shut about it." "That isn't fair." "I tell you, the ideal of fairness stinks with the rest. I have no obligation to say what I think." "Yes, if you enter into conversation, you have " "Bah, then I didn't enter into conversation. The only thing is, I agree in the rough with Argyle.
Martha, listening, and wiping her eyes, was shocked into fairness and sympathy. "But, William, she was not to blame!" "That's what I told her." "Poor thing!" said Martha; "why, I feel as if I ought to go right up and comfort her." "No, no; it isn't necessary," William said. "I'll go, on my way to The Top." Mrs. King drew back, coldly, and sympathy wavered into common sense.
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