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The lines of her face were those of a woman grown, but the child lingered on in her complexion and in the sweetness of her mouth. Above all she was natural that was indubitable now; more natural than he had supposed at first, perhaps on account of her aesthetic toggery, which was conventionally unconventional, suggesting what he might have called a tortuous spontaneity.
Another shared her secret one, too, who would lay down his life for her and the efforts of Miss Fortescue had resulted in suggesting to her mind a new solution of the mystery. After the natural comments which were elicited by Edith's strange story, Reginald showed her the letter which he had received from Miss Fortescue. It was not very long, nor was it very definite.
Stuart's, Friday, and at once sent off a note to Edward Wallace, suggesting that they should go to the theatre together on Thursday evening to see Miss Bretherton, 'for, as you will see, he wrote, 'it will be impossible for me to meet her with a good conscience unless I have done my duty beforehand by going to see her perform. To this the American replied by a counter proposal.
Observe the bright outlook of the boy and the timid attitude of the girl. There's a fine tenderness in the care the girl is getting from her mother and from the boy, too, suggesting dawning manhood. Altogether, the group has nobility and it's worthy of being a permanent monument for San Francisco.
Mary and Henry, being appealed to, failed to remember anything about the club, the latter suggesting that probably it flourished before he came to C . Jessie was quite sure she recalled Henry, but the others could not do so with much positiveness. "I will ask Mrs. Long when I get home," said Henry. "She has always lived at C , and is great for remembering dates.
It was thus free and unrestrained because he had not said what she was fearing he would say had not suggested the woman nearest him, the obvious woman. So eager was she to discover what he thought of Selma, that she could hardly restrain herself from suggesting her. Before they could say anything more, two men came to talk with him. Jane could not but leave. She dined that night at Mrs.
Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable.
Washington, D.C., December 18, 1865. Sir: When you did me the honor of selecting me for a mission to the States lately in rebellion, for the purpose of inquiring into the existing condition of things, of laying before you whatever information of importance I might gather, and of suggesting to you such measures as my observations would lead me to believe advisable, I accepted the trust with a profound sense of the responsibility connected with the performance of the task.
Several smiling Loves; one stands behind Roxana, pulling away the veil on her head to show her to Alexander; another obsequiously draws off her sandal, suggesting bed-time; a third has hold of Alexander's mantle, and is dragging him with all his might towards Roxana.
"There is the broad day-light of mere animal spirits," he went on, seeming rather to be suggesting these things for her consideration than eager to set forth any opinions of his own; "there is the sparkling of mischief, and the fire of hidden passions, there is the passing brilliance of wit, as satisfactory and resting as these gas-lights, and there is now and then the light of refined affections out of a heart unspotted from the world, as pure and abiding as the stars, and like them throwing its soft ray especially upon the shadows of life."
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