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Chicken broth is all that I wish him to have to-night, thanks." And so the process of care and nursing began. The Union colonel had left a good supply of coffee, sugar, and coarse rations for the wounded men, and Suwanee did her best to supplement these, accomplishing even more by her kindness, cheerfulness, and winsome ways than by any other means.
His type of childhood is by no means pretty, though altogether natural. The Virgin cannot be called either intellectual or spiritual, but "where," as a noted critic has asked, "can we find a face more winsome and appealing?" Certainly she is a lovely woman, and
She was a magnificent, regal-looking creature and was a superb beauty of the classic type, and yet with it she was dainty and winsome. She had great talent for music. This, it appeared, was shown by the breadth between the eyes and the timbre of her voice.
He held it up, hanging loose like a pennon from his hand. She could hear the words come clear up the hill: "I'm very glad that I tore it, and I will come and see your grandmother!" "Of all the " Winsome stopped for want of words, speaking to herself as she turned away up the hill "of all the insolent and disagreeable "
And this was quickly shown in another way. She had not yet completed her frugal meal when her mind reverted to her personal appearance, and she paused, with heightened color, to draw back her loosened hair and fasten it in place with a knot of scarlet cord. It was surely a winsome face that smiled up at me then.
When he is not singing, one may often hear his low, earnest chatter and talk with his mate, in the same plaintive and winsome tones. Ah, how little we can see of what goes on about us, though we are closely watching, and every sense is alert!
Though Ralph had done no noble action in her sight or within her ken, yet there was that about him which gave her the knowledge that she would be infinitely safe with him even to the world's end. Winsome wondered how she could so gladly go, when she would not have so much as dreamed of stealing out at night to meet any other, though she might have known him all her life.
Yet such is our winsome God's wondrous plan that skill may come to any one who is willing; simply that who is willing; and it comes very simply too. Strange too, as with the electrical counterpart, the thing is beyond full or satisfying explanation. How does it come to pass that a man turns a few handles, and miles away great wheels begin to revolve, and enormous power is manifested?
Meg put her arms gently round Winsome, saying: "It's me, my lamb. It's me, your Meg!" And Meg's cheek was pressed against that of Winsome, moist with sleep. The sleeper stirred with a dovelike moaning, and opened her eyes, dark with sleep and wet with the tears of dreams, upon Meg. "Waken, my bonnie; Meg has something that she maun tell ye."
Thus it came about that the gipsies and the wanderers generally were almost the only people in any country who saw the winsome side of Borrow. A truly winsome side he had. Yes, notwithstanding all that has been said about him to the contrary, Borrow was a most interesting and charming companion.
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