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"The current's mighty sharp." "I want to land here," said Lettie, decidedly. "It's the prettiest spot we've seen isn't it, girls?" Her friends agreed. Hiram, casting a quick eye over the ruffled surface of the river, saw that the man was right.
She will laugh, and brush out her pretty hair all ruffled and wet with the rain, her cheeks will be glowing with colour, and her lips will be as red as the cherries when they first begin to ripen, her eyes will be bright with health and vitality, and life- -young life life full of joy and hope and brightness will radiate from her as the light radiates from the sun.
Then her lashes lifted, and the dark blue eyes looked into my face. "You must pardon my roughness," I apologized, "but there was no time for ceremony." She smiled, a flood of color coming back into the clear cheeks, as she drew slightly away. "I appreciate that, sir," frankly, shaking out her ruffled skirts, "and you have made knighthood real."
She did not contradict Sylvester. She had learned not to contradict him. But Dickie's face with its tight-knit look of battle stood out very clear to refute the accusation of any loss of manliness. He was still a quaint and ruffled Dickie. But he was vastly aged. From twenty to twenty-seven, he seemed to have jumped in a few weeks. A key had turned in the formerly open door of his spirit.
I just can't stand for this!" he groaned, and the tragedy in his voice contrasted so quaintly with his comic appearance, bareheaded, hair ruffled, and costume sketchy, that I felt rising symptoms of hysteria, which had to be controlled. "I must get you and the mater and Milly into safety somehow. To-night is the limit. Mater's more dead than alive, and Mill isn't much better."
Her good humour was never ruffled by the charges of wantonness and cruelty with which the Jesuits filled every Court in Europe. She was insensible to fear. Her life became at last a mark for assassin after assassin, but the thought of peril was the thought hardest to bring home to her.
Charlie passed him, at a little distance, with a laughing lady hitched to his elbow. Her mask swung from her hand the ball was wearing to its end, and masks are hot. The hood of her rose-colored domino had been pushed back from a mass of ruffled black hair; her eyes and teeth gleamed with equal brightness and directness of purpose.
It was impossible to look on Emmeline without feeling every ruffled emotion suddenly calmed; she was so bright, so innocent, so fair a thing, that if peace and kindness had wished to take up their abode on earth, they could not have found a fairer form wherein to dwell. As St.
Some men being thus broken in upon while in the very act of communing with Heaven would have been distressed and ill at ease as I assuredly was because I had so interrupted him. But to Fray Antonio, as I truly believe, communion with Heaven was so entirely a part of his daily life that our sudden entry in nowise ruffled him.
At receiving this cavalier reply for the reward of all her patience, Mrs. Dodd was so hurt, and so nearly angry, that she rose with dignity from her seat, her cheek actually pink, and the water in her eyes. Sampson saw she was ruffled, and appealed to Julia of all people. "There now, Miss Julia," said he, ruefully; "she is in a rage because I won't humbug her. Poplus voolt decipee.
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