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"Now that I look closer," he laughed, "I see a difference; but I'll take back no jot of my compliment to yourself." "I was caught yonder," said he to me a little later in a whisper in English, as we lay down in our corner. "A man of my ordinary acuteness should have seen that the brat was the only unspoiled member of all the flock."

How charming she was in her naive and unspoiled way! He said: Never mind; keep on! Pay no attention whatever. One got used to this whispering; if it amused people, what of it? He himself never noticed it any more; honestly, it did not affect him in the least. Besides, he wanted to let her know that to-day he was not the only subject of conversation what about her?

There was a day when he was near it; when he turned the same fresh, frank face fearlessly to the world, when his nature was as unspoiled and as clean, his hopes as high, and his faith as child-like; and once when he ran across a passage in Stevenson in which that gentle student spoke of his earlier and better self as his "little brother" whom he loved and longed for and sought persistently, but who dropped farther and farther behind at times, until, in moments of darkness, he sometimes feared that he might lose him forever Crittenden had clung to the phrase, and he had let his fancy lead him to regard this boy as his early and better self better far than he had ever been his little brother, in a double sense, who drew from him, besides the love of brother for brother and father for son, a tenderness that was almost maternal.

They looked further, guided somewhat perhaps by Jean Jacques Rousseau, to remote, unspoiled country villages. They saw enough to convince themselves that there the ideal was at home. Jefferson in particular felt this, and Jefferson more than any other man formulated the American image of democracy. From the townships had come the power that had carried the American Revolution to victory.

These actor folk were very pleasant people. Even the star, Miss Loder, was quite unspoiled by her success. I have what they call the 'appealing face' and I can squeeze out real tears at the proper juncture. Those are two very necessary attributes for a girl who wishes to gain film success." "But you can really act," Ruth said honestly. "I watched you to-day." "I should be able to act.

The fond mother had had this masterpiece framed and glazed in the days when her son was still a little lad, unspoiled by University life and those splendid aspirations which afterwards made his home hateful to him. There were some tattered books upon a shelf by the bed school prizes, an old Virgil, a "Robinson Crusoe" shorn of its binding.

Forbes was a sincere and manly fellow, who had taken his share of hard knocks and who suffered ill health uncomplainingly an exile of his chosen environment, with little money and scarce a companion to share his loneliness. As for Forbes, he envied Pete his abundant health and vigor and admired his unspoiled enthusiasm.

There are two main divisions of these hearty simple people, those who are untrained and relatively uneducated, and whose simplicity may disappear under cultivation, and another type cultivated, educated, wise who still retain unspoiled appetite and hearty enjoyment. Briefly let me introduce Dr. O., an athlete in his youth and always a lover of the great outdoors.

"Bell" was beloved as only daughters are, but so unspoiled as to be sought in marriage as eagerly as if she had been a merry member of a merry tribe. Lord Byron himself offered early, and was refused, like many other suitors. Her feelings were not the same, however, to him as to others.

Frank Armour; but he did say that, because he knew they were anxious that he should marry "acceptably," he had married into the aristocracy, the oldest aristocracy of America; and because he also knew they wished him to marry wealth, he sent them a wife rich in virtues native, unspoiled virtues. He hoped that they would take her to their hearts and cherish her.