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And it will be the first I've really managed to catch!" Leslie began to play her line, her hands fairly trembling with excitement. The two girls and Ted stood at the ocean's edge, almost directly in front of the bungalows, whiling away a glorious, crisp afternoon in striving to induce the reluctant fish to bite. For some reason or other, they seemed remarkably shy that day.
Perhaps no clearer and more pleasing account of his appearance and his conduct at a reception has ever been given to the world than this sketch of the great man in one of his gentler moods by John Leslie Foster, who visited Paris shortly after the Peace of Amiens: "He is about five feet seven inches high, delicately and gracefully made; his hair a dark brown crop, thin and lank; his complexion smooth, pale, and sallow; his eyes gray, but very animated; his eye-brows light brown, thin and projecting.
But if Randal Leslie had rested himself in the squire's gardens, without walking backwards and indulging in speculations suggested by Marat, and warranted by my Lord Bacon, he would have passed a most agreeable evening, and really availed himself of the squire's wealth by going home in the squire's carriage.
If in this summer-time with Leslie Goldthwaite your thoughts have broadened somewhat with hers, some questions for you have been partly answered; if it has appeared to you how a life enriches itself by drawing toward and going forth into the life of others through seeing how this began with her, it is no unfinished tale that I leave with you.
She was her father's favorite and she was awful fond of him. They were 'chums, as she used to say. She couldn't see any of his faults and he WAS a taking sort of man in some ways. "Well, when Leslie was twelve years old, the first dreadful thing happened. She worshipped little Kenneth he was four years younger than her, and he WAS a dear little chap.
Foss and Leslie time and reflection. The Fosses' only son had a great regard for this man, one of the faculty during his period at Harvard, and now that the travels of the professor's sabbatical year brought him to Florence, the family was anxious to entertain him as dear John, studying medicine in far-off Boston, would have wished.
"Still, I owe him a good deal, and suppose that I must cheerfully acquiesce to his wishes." "I cannot take upon myself to determine what the testator thought," was the dry answer. "He said the estimable Mr. Leslie might either shoot or drink himself to death some day. The late Anthony Thurston was a tenacious person, and you must draw your own conclusions."
You don't go straight on, you know, house by house, when you ask people, down the hill and into the town." "We talked it over," said Olivia. "And we got as far as the Hobarts." There Olivia stopped. That was where they had stopped before. "O yes, the Hobarts; they would be sure to like it," said Leslie Goldthwaite, quick and pleased.
Miss Foss," she was diverted from the envious contemplation of Estelle, "who is that lovely girl over there?" "Which one? There are so many to-night!" "The white one with the knob of dark hair down in her neck. An Italian, I guess. Rather small. See who I mean? There. She's going to speak to the little fellow at the piano." Leslie looked, but did not at once answer.
Gladstone, that the adverse majority are dead against him, and that this majority is daily increasing by leaps and bounds. Gallant Captain Leslie, whom I saw earlier in the day, more accurately hit the situation. This splendid old soldier said, "The English people are not to be blamed.
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