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On the sidewalks were groups and couples the plumbers' apprentices, the girls of the ribbon counters, the little families that lived on the second stories over their shops, the dressmakers, the small doctors, the harness-makers all the various inhabitants of the street were abroad, strolling idly from shop window to shop window, taking the air after the day's work.
Too much care cannot be exercised in putting arms around the young girls of to-day, and we would wish to impress this fact upon the minds of the young men who are just coming upon the stage of action. Of course, men along in years do not need advice.
Then came color, a string of rose-red cloudlets laid themselves on the sky, over the black tops of the forest trees there came a shower of red, and then suddenly everything was full of the commotion of a purple and golden light. "Ah, there it is," said Billy, and the two girls stared motionless and as if stupefied at the rising sun.
"Is it not true," he said, defending himself, "that in all that relates to the girls you have ever regarded me with suspicion?" "No, it is not true." And then she corrected herself, feeling that there was something of truth in the squire's last assertion. "Certainly not with suspicion," she said. "But as this matter has gone so far, I will explain what my real feelings have been.
It's girls who do everything. Now, do be quick and let's feed the rats." "You talk such nonsense," said Boris. "You don't suppose that ladies and gentlemen care whether boys and girls spell words right or not, and what rubbish you do say about best clothes and smiling and bowing." "I don't," said Kitty, crossly; "it's you who talk rubbish. You have never been to school, so you can't possibly tell.
Even as he stared she turned her head, and her eyes looked straight into his. He had seen Miss Anne Linton only twice, and on the two occasions she had seemed to him like two entirely different girls. But this girl was she not that one who had come to visit him in his room at the hospital, full of returning health and therefore of waxing beauty and vigour?
The girls at once agreed to the proposal, and in three quarters of an hour the cart drew up at a farmhouse. "Is it all right, Bill?" a man asked, opening the door as the cart stopped. "Yes, it be all right. Not one of them revenue chaps nigh the place. Here be the load of tubs; they was the first that came ashore." "Who have you got here?" the farmer asked as Harry came forward with the girls.
Elizabeth was out he knew not where. The housemaid informed him, that Miss Elizabeth was out rowing on the water. 'Is she alone? Lady Camper inquired of him. 'I fancy so, the General replied. 'The poor child has no mother. 'It has been a sad loss to us both, Lady Camper. 'No doubt. She is too pretty to go out alone. 'I can trust her. 'Girls! 'She has the spirit of a man. 'That is well.
"I request you to please the gentleman who is your appointed husband." "I am anxious to perform my duty." "That should be a satisfactory basis for you, Willoughby; as girls go!" "Let me, sir, simply entreat to have her hand in mine before you." "Why not, Clara?" "Why an empty ceremony, papa?" "The implication is, that she is prepared for the important one, friend Willoughby."
They live as though life was a theater, good for nothing but its acting. I know there is much reason why girls do live so, why they are so heedless of the grandeur that swells into eternal glory before them.