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When a strong, merry-looking lad presented himself, eager for the job, and speaking not a word that was beside the point, Alma could have patted his head. She amused Harvey that evening by exclaiming with the very accent of sincerity 'How I like men, and how I detest women!
Barkis, but he was not there; and instead of him a fat, short-winded, merry-looking, little old man in black, with rusty little bunches of ribbons at the knees of his breeches, black stockings, and a broad-brimmed hat, came puffing up to the coach window, and said: 'Master Copperfield? 'Yes, sir.
One of the group, named Henderson, a merry-looking boy with a ceaseless pleasant twinkle of the eyes, had been taxing his own invention to the uttermost without in the least exciting Plumber's credulity. "You saw the fellow who let you in at the school gates, Plumber?" said Henderson. "Yes; I saw someone or other." "But did you notice him particularly?" "No, I didn't notice him."
She was surrounded on every side by groups of merry-looking people, and already out on the lake there floated tiny white-sailed boats, each containing a man and a girl. Everyone seemed to have a companion or companions; she alone was solitary.
The March did not sound like itself in such weather, naturally enough, nor was it a very merry-looking bridal procession that followed.
He was very seriously explaining something to the man who sat with him and whom he addressed as Governor, a merry-looking person with a stubby gray mustache and little hair, who seemed not too attentive to the director. "You see, Governor, it's this way: the party is lost on the desert understand what I mean and Kempton Ward and the girl stumble into this deserted tomb just at nightfall.
Behind her, courtesying and smiling to the guests as they approached, stood two well-grown unmistakably English girls, their dresses ornamented with cherry-coloured ribbons, just then in fashion: the eldest, Catherine, or Kate, as she was called, a brunette, tall and slight, with a somewhat grave and retiring manner, and far more refined than her rosy-cheeked, merry-looking younger sister Polly, who gave promise of some day growing into the goodly proportions of her mother.
Radmore?" repeated the woman dully, and Radmore had another, and a very painful, shock. He remembered Mrs. Cobbett definitely, as a buxom, merry-looking young woman. She now looked older than her husband, and she did not smile at him, as the man had done, as she held out her worn, thin hand. "A deal has happened," she said slowly, "since you went away."
He turned sidewise in the narrow, crowded space in order to pass her little group. And one of the men a red-cheeked, merry-looking young fellow in a white apron laughed and said: "Well, Emma, you win. When it comes to driving a bargain with you, I quit. It can't be did!" Even then he didn't know her.
And one of the men a red-cheeked, merry-looking young fellow in white apron laughed and said: "Well, Emma, you win. When it comes to driving a bargain with you, I quit. It can't be did!" Even then he didn't know her. He did not dream that this straight, slim, tailored, white-haired woman, bargaining so shrewdly with these men, was the Emma Byers of the old days.
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