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Birds, flowers, fields, sunshine, rain, and storm, were the constant companions of the gifted and beautiful student. The warble of the birds was to her of more worth than the most bewitching strains of an English opera; flowers taught lessons more inspiring and sublime than the most profound theological discussion.
"That's the devil of it! Why couldn't the silly thing have had a decent bit of ptomaine poisoning instead of this foolish earache. But, it's more than an earache! The bally ear has been stung or something anything bite you, Polly?" "Yes, sir, a wasp." "She says a wathp!" exclaimed Warble. "Oh, Bill, it may mean blood poisoning!" "Yes, that's true it is the ear will have to come off.
She performed her part for his comfort, though not prattling; and he missed his Fredi's delicious warble of the prattle running rill-like over our daily humdrum. Simeon Fenellan would have helped. Then suddenly came enlivenment: a recollection of news in the morning's paper. 'No harm before Fredi, my dear. She's a young woman now. And no harm, so to speak-at least, not against the Sanfredini.
"Ambitions are queer things," Aunt Dressie thoughtfuled. "Now, you mightn't think it, but I want to be a steeple climber." "You take Porgie off my hands, and he'll help you " "Oh, no, child, every lassie has her laddie and you saw him first." Warble sighed. Thus was she always thrown at Porgie's head. Fate, like a sluicing torrent carried her ever on. Beware, beware, the rapids are below you!
Unexpected and unannounced, he strode in to the pickle foundry and grasped the fat arm of the girl who worked next to Warble. "Come along," he said, not unkindly, but the girl screamed. "Beg pardon," Petticoat said, nonchalantly, "sorry. Thought you were my wife. Know where I can find her?" A slim, fairy-like Warble turned to greet him. Petticoat couldn't believe his eyes.
In his transactions of business, Liutprand, bishop of Cremona, asserted the free spirit of a Frank and the dignity of his master Otho. Yet his sincerity cannot disguise the abasement of his first audience. When he approached the throne, the birds of the golden tree began to warble their notes, which were accompanied by the roarings of the two lions of gold.
He kicked his freezing iron feet in the freezing iron stirrup. He tried to blow his nose with his freezing iron hand; but dropt his handkerchief into the mud, and his horse trod on it. He tried to warble the song of Roland; but the words exploded in a cough and a sneeze. And so dragged on the weary hours, says the chronicler, nearly all day, till the ninth hour.
I have, however, seen so much of modern fashions, modern accomplishments, and modern fine ladies, that I relish this tinge of antiquated style in so young and lovely a girl; and I have had as much pleasure in hearing her warble one of the old songs of Herrick, or Carew, or Suckling, adapted to some simple old melody, as I have had from listening to a lady amateur skylark it up and down through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart.
"And I'll teach you how to undress becomingly," said Beer, not wanting to be outclassed in her own game. Warble waved Petticoat out of the room, dismissed Beer with a simple "Get out!" and then quickly flung off the clothes she wore and hopped into a little frock of white organdie and cherries.
Why any one so small should want to live so high up in the world I don't know, any more than I know why any one wants to live anywhere but in the Old Orchard." "Somehow I don't remember just what Warble looks like," Peter confessed. "He looks a lot like his cousin, Redeye," replied Jenny. "His coat is a little duller olive-green and underneath he is a little bit yellowish instead of being white.
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