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He saw a glitter of golden curls, and the scarlet gleam of a mantle a young girl, tall and slender, with rounded, supple limbs, and a figure graceful in every line and curve while her arms, bare to the elbow, would have charmed a sculptor. Cheek and lips were a glowing rosy red while her eyes, of the deepest and darkest blue, were the merriest that ever gazed up to the summer sunshine.
But the temples seemed to be abandoned to solitude; the festival had been nothing more than a jovial mingling of the tribe; the idols were quite harmless as any other logs of wood; and the priests were the merriest dogs in the valley.
He could not help, therefore, compassionating the situation of poor Nancy, whose love for Mr Nightingale seemed to him so apparent, that he was astonished at the blindness of her mother, who had more than once, the preceding evening, remarked to him the great change in the temper of her daughter, "who from being," she said, "one of the liveliest, merriest girls in the world, was, on a sudden, become all gloom and melancholy."
If you don't, they will all come up again, and the eyes will be all over the place, haunting you!" Here she broke into the merriest little laugh possible. "Poor Spruce! You do look so miserable! See here I'll tell you what to do! Pack them ail in a box, and I will send them to my aunt Emily! She loves them! She likes to see them stuck all over the drawing-room. They're never unlucky to her.
I have been in every gaol in England, and I know the good ones, for even in gaols there is a great difference. Now the one in this town is one of the best in all England, and I patronises it during the winter. I was much amused with the discourse of this mumper, who appeared to be one of the merriest old vagabonds in England.
Because he is one beside himself. Why are good resolutions like ladies fainting in church? Because the sooner they are carried out the better. Which is the merriest letter in the alphabet? U, because it is always in fun. What is the difference between a bankrupt and a feather bed? One is hard up and the other is soft down.
This was certainly the merriest moment that our company had enjoyed for a long time. The young men to whose share no lady had fallen, held, for this week, the office of providing for the mind, the soul, and the body, as our orator expressed himself, but especially, he hinted, for the soul, since both the others already knew how to help themselves.
More wide, and widening more, were given The angel-gates disclosing heaven; Round us the lovely, mirthful troop Of children came yet still to me The loveliest merriest of the group The happy mother seemed to be!
The neighboring bush, though crammed with the merriest souls that ever made feathers vibrate and dance with song, was like a tomb of black marble; not a sound only this little raven of a quail tolled her harsh, lugubrious crake.
They were the visitors of Verner's Pride; and Sibylla, the hostess, was the gayest, the merriest, the fairest among them. Lionel came on to the terrace, descended the steps, and crossed the lawn to join them as courtly, as apparently gay, as if that bill of Mrs. Duff's was not making havoc of his heartstrings. They all ran to surround him.
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