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"From Czernowicz, therefore, where I stopped some time, I wrote, received in due time a few lines of prettily worded reply, and ultimately entered my sled in the nearest town to, yet at a most forbidding distance from, Yany, and started on my journey thither.
Her features were clear-cut and very attractive at least so thought Miss Reynolds as she studied the symmetrical brow, the large, thoughtful eyes, the tender mouth and prettily rounded chin curving so gracefully into the white, slender neck. "Ah! Miss Minturn.
"Sit there by the window where you get a view of the hill. It's more than good of you to come. I hope Mattie didn't tease you too much?" "No, indeed, she asked me very prettily," said Elsie. "She's a sweet child." "She's good as gold," said her mother. "And she's perfectly wild about you. She calls you the Princess Moss-rose and makes up stories about you after she goes to bed."
"Jeanne," he said, "don't you remember any of it don't you remember the trees changing their colours so prettily? don't you remember the frogs' banquet?" Jeanne stared at him so earnestly that she quite frowned. "I think I think," she said, and then she stopped. "When you say that of the trees, I think I did see rainbow colours all turning into each other.
"But you should not have frightened poor William so, hinting that the lady knew very little English. She has an accent, to be sure; but she speaks our tongue very prettily. I always forget that she 's not English born! Ha, ha, poor William!" RANDAL. "Ha, ha!" MRS. HAZELDEAN. "We had once thought of another match for Frank, a girl of good English family." RANDAL. "Miss Sticktorights?"
"The old haversacks were deposited in a corner under the steps and their owners conducted downstairs to a spacious dining-room, quite prettily furnished. A large table occupied the centre of the room, and at one side there was a handsome display of silver in a glass-front case. A good big fire lighted the room.
"It is a technical masterpiece," replied the Greek, smiling, "but hardly a work of imagination; for you have seen the original of the principal figure, and" he turned to Helen Cumberly "one need not go very far East for such an interior as that depicted." "What!" Helen knitted her brows, prettily "you do not suggest that such an apartment actually exists either East or West?"
But indeed, she could not shut her eyes to the fact that all events pointed in the direction so prettily indicated, again and again, by Wallace's mother. Wallace was succeeding beyond his own expectations, and Uncle William was growing more lamb-like every day. The road to success had surely opened out for Christina. Her Dream Knight had ridden up to her very door.
Burrough states of another Gibbon, the Horlack or Hooluk: "They walk erect; and when placed on the floor, or in an open field, balance themselves very prettily, by raising their hands over their head and slightly bending the arm at the wrist and elbow, and then run tolerably fast, rocking from side to side; and, if urged to greater speed, they let fall their hands to the ground, and assist themselves forward, rather jumping than running, still keeping the body, however, nearly erect."
He wore leather shoes, except in wet weather, when he wore sabots, which cost about twelve sous per pair. I passed more chateaux in ruins, and others shut up and forsaken. Some of them were very prettily situated, in patches of trees and amidst corn-fields. Several, as I understood, belonged to emigrants, whom Bonaparte had recalled by name, but who had not as yet returned.
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