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There was Clementina with her odd quick combatant sharpness, a harder being than Eleanor, but nevertheless a fine-spirited and even more independent. There was Miriam, indefatigably kind. Phoebe too had a real passion of the intellect and Daphne an innate disposition to service.
I know you will turn up your pretty nose, Ursula, at a Dissenter." "I should think so," cried Janey; "we have nothing to do with such people, being gentlefolks, have we, Ursula? Oh, I forgot! I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to say " Phoebe smiled upon her serenely.
A lover he never dreamed of; she had shown such evident pleasure in his company, and had received his visits alone so constantly. However, when the pair had got to the beach, and were walking slower and slower, he felt a pang of rage and jealousy, turned on his heel with an audible curse, and found Phoebe Dale a few yards behind him with a white face and a peculiar look.
But it was a very favourite form of fiction with the Miss Brownings, and to Miss Phoebe it was the very acme of wit. 'The little bird was flying about one day in Heath Lane, and it saw Mr.
What of Rosalind, Phoebe, and Audrey in As You Like It? But that is a question to which we shall have to return.
Phoebe might easily have told him the real state of the case; Nancy was busy at her washing, which would have been reason enough. But the nursemaid had vexed her, and she did not like Philip's sharpness, so she only said, 'It's noane o' my business; it's yo' t' look after yo'r own wife and child; but yo'r but a lad after a'.
And behind her, mingling with her image yet distinct a veiled, intangible presence, stood Phoebe Phoebe so like her, and yet so different. But of Phoebe still he would not think. It was as when a man, mortally tired, shrinks from some fierce contest of brain and limb, which yet he knows may some day have to be faced.
"There is no time like the present," said the young man, who liked his own way. I do not mean to say that it was right of Phoebe to dance with him, especially dances she had promised to other people. But he was the personage of the evening, and that is a great temptation. Mr. Copperhead himself came up to them more than once, with meaning in his eyes.
All the visitors are quite gone now, and it's that quiet at nights! Sometimes when it's been raining I think I can hear the Dungeon Ghyll stream, though it's more than a mile away. Fenwick put up the letter. He had a sudden vision of Phoebe in her white night-dress, opening the casement-window of the little cottage on a starry night, and listening to the sounds of distant water.
The two is always together, 'ceptin' now when he's a-hidin' and she's put on fine clothes to drive around with her rich friends." Phoebe turned her startled gaze on the man. Her lips parted. "Don't answer them," whispered Billie, and with a grand flourish she swept the "Comet" around in a circle and turned his nose up the street.
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