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The stranger started, and his face flushed with some strong emotion, while his hand rested caressingly upon the flowing curls of the beautiful three-years-old girl, as he asked, "Who Is mamma, darling? What is her name, I mean?"
Do you believe that my lords the States will agree to the proposition?" It would be certainly difficult to match in history the effrontery of such a question. The republican envoy was asked point blank whether his country would resign her dearly gained liberty and give herself as a dowry for Philip the Second's three-years-old grand daughter.
Children's questions are often simply sublime: the question your three-years-old asked was of these "Who sanded the seashore?" To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 29, 1829. This appointment is, in every respect, all that Captain Beaufort wished for himself, and all that his friends can desire for him.
Do you believe that my lords the States will agree to the proposition?" It would be certainly difficult to match in history the effrontery of such a question. The republican envoy was asked point blank whether his country would resign her dearly gained liberty and give herself as a dowry for Philip the Second's three-years-old grand daughter.
Melissa smiled indulgently at his absurd absorption; while the baby, looking up, smiled back as one who would say: "What a stupid game reading is to waste your time with!" For the standpoint of three-years-old is quite different from that of fourteen-going-on-fifteen.
Indeed, the longer I think of it the more confident I feel that every aged creeper must have had sundry experiences of this sort, which he is never weary of recounting for the edification of his nephews and nieces, who, of course, are far too young to have anything like the wide knowledge of the world which their venerable three-years-old uncle possesses.
And Fanny made no apology, but seemed pleased, ready with answers and with eyes, apparently ignorant that Rachel's toes were less insensible than her own, and her heavy three-years-old Wilfred asleep on her lap all the time. "She feeble, helpless, sickly!" thought Rachel, "I should have been less tired had I walked the twenty miles!"
He had worshiped the actress, the mimic, not the woman herself. At any rate, that was how he read the repellent notion that he should bargain with any man for the sale of a wife. "You might be a trifle more explicit, Mr. Grant," said the superintendent, almost reproachfully. "In what direction? Surely a three-years-old love affair can have little practical bearing on Miss Melhuish's death?"
Was there ever such innocence in a creature so full of life? She tells her heart's secrets as a three-years-old child betrays itself without need of being questioned! This was no common miss, such as are turned out in scores from the young-lady-factories, with parchments warranting them accomplished and virtuous, in case anybody should question the fact.
You would, I think, have sympathised with a small person, almost as small as three-years-old Ger, whose first word's when the door was opened were, in an awe-struck whisper, 'Oh, what a lot of boys.
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