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Oh, my dear injured Sophy, to think that I was ashamed of your poor cotton print to think that to your pretty face I have been owing fame and fortune and you, you wandering over the world child of the sister of whose beauty I was so proud of her for whom, alas, in vain! I painted Watteaus and Greuzes upon screens and fans!"

Chiefly she was the terror of the bank-voles; but often, impatient of failure, she would slant her fans and drift towards the burrows in the mossy pasture, hoping to find that the grey voles had awakened for an hour from their winter sleep.

Here she stopped under a grove of palm trees, and told the ring that she wanted a house. 'It is ready, mistress, whispered a queer little voice which made her jump, and, looking behind her, she saw a lovely palace made of the finest woods, and a row of slaves with tall fans bowing before the door.

Greg struck with all his strength, and at the sound, a cheer rose from the seats of the Army fans. But the ball was lower than Greg had calculated, and after all his assault on the leather had resulted only in a bunt. Navy's pitcher took a few swift steps, then bent, straightened up and sent the ball driving to first. "Runner out at first!" Then indeed a wail went up.

And now for the person of herself, she was laid under a pavillion of cloth of gold of tissue, apparelled and attired like the goddess Venus, commonly drawn in picture; and hard by her, on either hand of her, pretty fair boys apparelled as painters do set forth god Cupid, with little fans in their hands, with which they fanned wind upon her.

Now they commented on the movements of the engines, endeavoring to recall forgotten notions of physics, now they surrounded the young schoolgirl or the red-lipped buyera with her collar of sampaguitas, whispering into their ears words that made them smile and cover their faces with their fans.

"Room fragrant with violets, banked up in hyacinths, flowers everywhere, windows open, birds singing." She enclosed some fans, upon which she had been painting flowers busily during the journey in order to send them back to Boston to be sold at a fair in behalf of the Cretans: "Make them do the Cretes all the good you can," she said.

WHEN I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering spirits that's been dead ever so many years and you always think they're talking about YOU. As a general thing it makes a body wish HE was dead, too, and done with it all.

On his knees was his little, eight-year-old daughter; in his right arm he held a large doll. The white tiles of the stove were adorned with pictured scenes from the Nibelungen legend; table and chairs were littered with music scores; the windows had leaded panes; in one corner there was a mass of artfully grouped objectspeacocks’ feathers, gay-coloured silks, Chinese fans.

The hatches were opened and the ventilating fans started, blowing out the gases and letting in the cold, damp air. All on board drew a breath of this invigorating air, and then Captain Nicholson turned his attention to escaping from beneath the big guns of the fort. From his place in the conning tower he cold plainly see the activity of the fort when the lookout made out the submarine.