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My eyes were immediately arrested by a beautiful girl stationed in one of the private boxes. She was the most perfect blonde I had ever seen. Her hair was a glossy auburn, and shaded a face that might have served for the model of Titian's Venus. Her features were regular, her eyes a deep blue, shaded by long eyelashes which gave a dreamy expression to her lovely countenance.
The terrace towards which Adelheid and her father advanced was an irregular walk, shaded by venerable trees that had been raised near the principal or the carriage gate of the castle, on a ledge of those rocks that form the foundation of the buildings themselves.
The girls were quite bewildered with the luxurious surroundings. Everything seemed so velvety, and so much cushioned, and all this was enhanced by the soft glitter of the shaded lights, and the rose-tinted glow of the color scheme. Here, at least, scout uniform seemed out of place.
Covered with green sod, and shaded by many tall trees growing out of the side of the artificial mound on which the keep was built, the fosse offered all the advantages of a garden to the prisoners who were allowed to take exercise within it.
He looked well on horseback, and in his corduroys, with a soft shirt and flowing tie, a soft felt hat, he was at his best. He found George and Oscar on the west terrace, shaded by blue and white-striped awnings, with a macaw, red and blue on a perch a peacock glimmering at the foot of the steps and the garden blazing beyond.
It was made wholly of wood, with only a single door at the front, where was a shaded porch, provided with seats, most of which were occupied at times by the cowmen through the day and late into the night.
The same peculiarity characterized every countenance in the Bardy family namely the lofty forehead and marked brows, and the large deep-blue eyes, shaded by their heavy dark lashes.* * There is a race of the Hungarians in the Carpath who, unlike the Hungarians of the plain, have blue eyes and often fair hair. "How singular!" exclaimed one of the party; "we are thirteen at table to-day."
'She must be tall and slim, with dainty feet and hands, and a pair of big eyes, blue as a violet, shaded with long dark lashes. And her hair must be wavy and light with a little tinge of gold in it. And her cheek must have the pink of the rose and dimples that show in laughter. And her voice that must have music in it and the ring of kindness and good-nature.
Again he rang, and after much delay, an old man was seen approaching from the house, bearing a torch, which he carefully shaded from the night wind. "My good friend," inquired the sailor in no gentle tone, "is it Sir Robert's wish that those who come on business should be thus kept waiting?"
They drew their ship into a shaded backwater, and there they stayed while day grew and faded around them. Night came, and the heroes slept upon the deck of Argo.
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