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To-day she was stouter, ruddier the fiber of her had hardened, as it does with so many as the years come on; but she was still in full bloom a little late in the summer, but in full bloom. "Oh yes; and this Rembrandt I'm surprised! I did not know your husband's collection was so representative. Israels, I see, and Gerome, and Meissonier! Gad! It is a representative collection, isn't it?"
Various degrees of progress could be read in the air and manner of the hearty young "bourgeoises" and their paler or even ruddier partners, as they crunched their bread or sipped their thin wine. Some had only entered as yet upon the path of inquiry; others had already passed the mile-stone of criticism; and still others had left the earth and were floating in full azure of intoxication.
'If I were dying, I feel as if a word from you would rally me; if my pulse had stopped, I feel as if your touch would make it beat again, said Neville. 'But I HAVE rallied, and am doing famously. Mr. Crisparkle turned him with his face a little more towards the light. 'I want to see a ruddier touch here, Neville, he said, indicating his own healthy cheek by way of pattern.
It was the first time in years that a Mayor of New York had died in office, and the people were lavish of funereal honors to Farnham's memory. A ring a ring of roses, Laps full of posies; Awake awake! Now come and make A ring a ring of roses. The month of June had littered its path with roses, and now came July, with its crimson berries, its ruddier blossoms, and its profuse foliage.
Unless it were his health, then? But physically he had gained since they had come to Dorsetshire, grown robuster, ruddier, and fresher-eyed. It was only within a week that she had felt in him the undefinable change that made her restless in his absence, and as tongue-tied in his presence as though it were SHE who had a secret to keep from him!
The Baxter kitchen and glittered in all its accustomed cleanliness and order. Scrubbing and polishing were cheap amusements, and nobody grudged them to Waitstill. No tables in Riverboro were whiter, no tins more lustrous, no pewter brighter, no brick hearths ruddier than hers.
The only light burning inside the church was a small tallow candle, standing in the font, in the opposite aisle of the building to that in which Manston had sat down, and near where the furniture was piled. The candle's mild rays were overpowered by the ruddier light from the ruins, making the weak flame to appear like the moon by day.
I saw the ruddy dawn glow, and the ruddier glory of sundown as the sun bit into the edge of the horizon, and I knew that here somewhere lay the secret of the race, even though I could not find it.
The setting sun sank lower, reflecting a ruddier glow on Gwashbrari's face; it seemed as if she blushed beneath the great King's gaze. A mighty longing filled his soul, bursting from his lips in one passionate cry 'O Gwashbrari! kiss me, or I die! The sound echoed through the valleys, while the startled peaks stood round expectant.
Well, he'd been covering up his shortage for a considerable time and do you know what your father practically charged me with about that?" "No, Mr. Lamb." In his resentment, the old gentleman's ruddy face became ruddier and his husky voice huskier. "Thinks I kept the boy there because I suspected him! Thinks I did it to get even with HIM! Do I look to YOU like a man that'd do such a thing?"
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