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"This thorny red affair is the Japan quince, but I don't recognize these others." "That's because you're a city girl! You'll laugh when I tell you what they are." "They don't look like flowering shrubs to me." "They aren't. They're flowering trees; fruit trees!" "O-o! That really is a peach blossom, then!" "The deep pink is peach, and the delicate pink is apple and the white is plum."
She closed the door, and sat down to the piano, and lingered there without touching the keys; once or twice she raised her hands, and then she let them rest on the notes, and, half unconsciously, they began to move and make sweet music; and then they drifted into Schumann's "Abendlied," and then the little girl played some of his "Kinderscenen," and some of his "Fantasie Stucke," and some of his songs.
And forthwith was brought in a pretty young girl, that seem'd not to be above seven years of age, and was the same that first came into our room with Quartilla: All approv'd it with a general clap, ard next desiring it, a wedding was struck up between the boy and her.
"Then her angel will have to come," remarked the older, girl child, coolly, with awful use of the indicative mood. When the half-hour was over and Murray at liberty, he went in to the clock and stood before it with hands a-pocket and wide-spread legs. A great yearning was upon him to know the mystery of telling time. He wished oh, how he wished he had let Sheelah teach him!
But Nino started as though he had been stung, and his dark face grew pale. A girl could not have seemed more hurt at a strange man's touch. "Signora!" he cried, springing to his feet. The baroness, who is as dark as he, blushed almost red, partly because she was angry, and partly because she was ashamed.
You mustn't be angry; and if you'll be a good girl, and trust me in matters of business 'Stanley, I tell you plainly once more, I never will consent to sell one acre of the Brandon estates. 'Then we'll see what I can do without you, Dorkie, he said in a pleasant, musing way.
Again, half contemptuously, but with something almost vicious in his violence, Grandcourt slammed young Quest back into the chair from which he had attempted to hurl himself: "Keep quiet," he said; "you're a particularly vile little wretch, particularly pitiable; but your sister is a girl of gentle breeding a sweet, charming, sincere young girl whom everybody admires and respects.
Oh what a shock that wuz, Josiah goin' to the moon; and yet even as he spoke I felt a relief, knowin' man's fickle nater, that the only inhabitant I ever hearn on in the moon wuz an old man instead of a woman. For few indeed are the men that will stand without hitchin, and as for girl blinders, they won't wear 'em, much as they need 'em from the cradle to the grave.
Listen: you lied to me, you lied to your wife, trebly did you lie to the unfortunate girl you have deceived; but, if you will not speak it, for once hear the truth, and remember that you have to deal with one so relentless, that fools, mistaking justice for oppression, call him 'devil. I, 'Devil Caresfoot, tell you that I will disinherit you of every stick, stone, and stiver that the law allows me, and start you in the enjoyment of the rest with my bitterest curse.
She ventured to go nearer Suzanne is a brave girl, mademoiselle, and most virtuous and to raise the curtain the smallest portion just to permit the glance of an eye. And imagine what she saw." "Well!" I exclaimed impatiently. "WHAT did she see?"
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