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Cut one of the pieces of pastry in halves, dust the pastry-board with flour and roll the lump of pastry out very thin, cover the pie-plate, a big deep one, with the pastry, trim off the edges with a knife, cutting from you. Fill the dish with the fruit, dust the surface well with flour.
The possession of a knife once more, and of steel wherewith readily to strike fire, delighted the man enormously. The scissors they found in a hardware-shop, though rusty, enabled him to trim his beard and hair. Beatrice hailed a warped hard-rubber comb with joy.
Noa watched the trim little figure with its single covering of cotton, the straight, graceful body, and perfectly poised head and delicate neck, the bare feet and ankles, the sweet, comely face with its fresh young lips, free from the red stains of the syrah leaf, and its big brown eyes that looked from beneath heavy silken lashes. He smiled, but did not stir as she came to him.
Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore-carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke of the burning lint-stock. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras.
A day of labor had given a keen zest to the appetites of the campers; added to this was the satisfaction of having completed their work. The camp now was in trim condition. Acting upon the orders of the Chief Guardian, the wood had been laid for a council fire. The orders had been issued for the girls to don ceremonial dress and report for a council at eight o'clock that evening.
The French-Canadian voyageurs struck up their boating songs with glee, and with dashing paddles left the bay behind. The expedition was well provided with supplies, including wine for the gentlemen and spirits for the men. The arrival at Norway House was a féte. Before reaching the Fort the party landed on the shore, and paying much attention to their toilets, put themselves in proper trim.
'Who's Robert? asked David amused by her blush, and admiring the trim lightness of her figure and walk. 'Robert's the eldest son. He's a reedmaker. He's got enough to marry on at least he thinks so. 'And he wants to marry you? She nodded. Then she looked at him, laughing, her naturally bright eyes sparkling through the tears still wet in them.
Fresh from the sight of the poor little shabby woman and her grief, she could not help a sort of shrinking from that trim old soldier, with his thin, regular face, who held the fate of a "Hundred and fourteen" in his firm, narrow grasp, perhaps every day. Would he understand their troubles or wants? Of course he wouldn't! Then, she saw him looking at her critically with his keen eyes.
McCarthy described," said the Chief Guardian. "If this is the 'Sister Sue' she is a very trim little craft." The beach was lined with Camp Girls eagerly watching the approaching sailboat, which was coming on at what seemed to them to be an aggravatingly slow rate of speed. "What he needs is an engine," declared Jane.
Up the road, a blaring horn, great lights growing momently more dazzling, a roar, a rush, the halting car, and out of its blurred bulk, a trim figure darting Jeff Saxton home and the people she loved, and the ways and days she knew best of all. He had shouted only "Is Miss " before she had rushed to him, into the comfort of his arms, and kissed him.
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