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On the other hand, he stood at a little distance, that gave me a full view of a fine featured, shapely, healthy country lad, breathing the sweets of fresh blooming youth; his hair, which was of a perfect shining black, played to his face in natural side curls, and was set out with a smart tuck-up behind; new buckskin breechs, that, clipping close, shewed the shape of a plump, well made thigh; white stockings, garter-laced livery, shoulder knot, altogether composed a figure of pure flesh and blood, and appeared under no disgrace from the lowness of a dress, to which a certain spruce neatness seems peculiarly fitted.
Ten minutes later Mother would follow to tell them tuck-up stories and hear their prayers. 'Excuse me! Have you got a hot-water bottle? asked a sudden jerky voice, and he turned with a start to see Jane Anne towering beside him. 'I'm sorry, he answered, 'but I don't carry such things about with me. He imagined she was joking, then saw that it was very serious. She looked puzzled a moment.
Her heart, seeking consolation, went back again and again to the time when he had wanted her; but it was far to go, to the days of holland suits, when all those things that he desired slices of pineapple, Benson's old carriage-whip, the daily reading out of "Tom Brown's School-days," the rub with Elliman when he sprained his little ankle, the tuck-up in bed were in her power alone to give.
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