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Eric told her of his life, and the life in the great outer world, in which she was girlishly and eagerly interested. She asked him many questions about it direct and incisive questions which showed that she had already formed decided opinions and views about it. Yet it was plain to be seen that she did not regard it as anything she might ever share herself.
But he paid no heed, at all, to pretty emigrants who would have been delighted by flirtatious glances. It may, in fact, have been because of the shy fright, not in the least resentful, but sweetly, girlishly embarrassed, with which Anna greeted his, whenever her eyes caught them, that he turned them toward her so exclusively and frequently.
She was, in fact, everything that we girlishly longed to be in the revel of a ballroom or the white sanctity of a church. And now she, the bright, the joyous, the warm, was colder than we were, and would never be warm again.
The name of their farm was in perfect keeping with their atmosphere. Constance's frozen soul expanded in it. She chatted merrily and girlishly, feeling as if she had known them all her life. When bedtime came, Aunt Flora took her upstairs to a little gable room. "My spare room is all in disorder just now, dearie, we have been painting its floor. So I'm going to put you here in Jeannie's room.
They had a jolly supper together, after which they all went to the little town-hall to see a play. Blanche sat beside Rivers, and as she laughed at Si Peasley and his misadventures in the city she was girlishly happy. It was not very much of an entertainment, but in contrast with life in a sod shanty it was all very exciting for her.
He believed she spoke lightly, girlishly, to tease him that she was only a gay-hearted girl, fancy-free and just a little proud of her conquest over even him. "I surrender. Say what you like," he said, resignedly. "I'll stand anything just to get your letters." "If you go I'll write as often as you want me to," she replied. With that they emerged upon the harvest-field.
Hale laughed girlishly and contentedly. "But we love it. Edmund made it with his own hands even to the plumbing, though he did have a terrible time with that before he succeeded." "How about that hardwood floor downstairs? an' the fireplace?" Billy inquired. "All, all," she replied proudly. "And half the furniture. That cedar desk there, the table with his own hands."
From the opposite sides of the path their eyes met. Both smiled again, and felt better for it. "My, but you're a mighty religious boy, aren't you?" she asked suddenly. "Religious?" said he, looking at her in serious surprise. She nodded girlishly. The sun, long slanting through the cherry-trees, fell on her hair, loosely gathered up after her sleep, one free strand on her cheek.
Longorio was a young man; his cheeks were girlishly smooth and of a clear, pale, olive tint, which sun and weather apparently were powerless to darken; his eyes were large, bold, and brilliant; his nostrils thin and sensitive, like those of a blooded horse.
Never had he looked upon such wonderful hair, crushed and crumpled back from her smooth forehead; nor such marvellous whiteness of skin and pure blue depths of eyes! In her he saw now everything that was strong and splendid in woman. She was not girlishly sweet. She was not a girl.
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