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His talk was all of Sylvie, of her pretty childishness, her sweet, wayward ways, of her shyness, her timidity; and later, when supper was cleared away and he had throned himself in the center of that familiar circle of firelight, he had dropped his beautiful voice to a lower key and had boasted of Sylvie's love for him. Bella sat on a big log sawed to the height of a low stool.
'Don't be frightened, said the host. 'What's the matter? screamed the ladies. 'Mr. Tupman has met with a little accident; that's all. The spinster aunt uttered a piercing scream, burst into an hysteric laugh, and fell backwards in the arms of her nieces. 'Throw some cold water over her, said the old gentleman. 'No, no, murmured the spinster aunt; 'I am better now. Bella, Emily a surgeon!
And I shall lift up my eyes and behold once more the hill of gardens across Arno, with the Belvedere just within the old walls, and S. Miniato, like a white and fragile ghost in the sunshine, and La Bella Villanella couched like a brown bird under the cypresses above the grey olives in the wind and the sun.
Pete, hobbling to him, gazed curiously down, and Bella knelt opposite and drew away Hugh's mackinaw coat, with which he had wrapped his trove.
'Ma, Miss Lavinia interposed, 'there can be no objection to your being aggravating, because Bella richly deserves it; but I really must request that you will not drag in such ridiculous nonsense as my having grown when I am past the growing age. 'I grew, myself, Mrs Wilfer sternly proclaimed, 'after I was married.
Oh dear!" cried Bella, uttering a sob, and then giving vent to a tremendous sneeze. "Bless the King!" said Martha Gusset quietly. "Sneeze again, dear; it'll do you no end of good." The advice came rather late, for the girl's face was already wrinkling up for another nervous convulsion that seemed stronger than the last.
Wanting to do good, why not do it for its own sake, and put my tastes and likings by? 'Perhaps, said Bella; and perhaps she said it with some little sensitiveness arising out of those old curious relations of hers towards the murdered man; 'perhaps, in reviving the name, you would not have liked to give it to a less interesting child than the original. He interested you very much.
"Now, there's no denying he's got a taking way with women. All he has to do is to whistle 'em up like dogs. Most remarkable faculty, that. There was the wickedest, prettiest squaw among the Reindeers. Never saw her beat, excepting Bella. Well, I guess he whistled her up, for he delayed in the camp longer than was necessary. Being partial to women " "That will do, Mr.
She had learned Buenos dias, good day, from a Mexican neighbor; bambina bella, pretty baby girl, from the Serafinis, and Sayonara, good-by, from a Japanese boss in the peas. Rose-Ellen pulled the baby back and gave her a kiss in the hollow at the back of her neck. Then she tried to think of something to say herself. "Maybe they'll have school and church school at this next place for a change."
"It's a mercy she wasn't killed," Molly was saying. "She's no light weight to fall, isn't the missus." "It's completely upset me," said Bella in a faint voice, with one hand on her heart. "I tremble all over still." "And to think," said Molly, "as it was only yesterday I said to myself, `I'll darn that carpet before I'm an hour older'."
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