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The candle set in the window made a fine show from the street. They all went out to look at it. Coming in, they sat around the stove together. Pussy drew her chair very close to Ostrander. She laid her hand on his knee. It was a little hand with short, fat fingers. In spite of lean living, Pussy had managed to keep fat. She was adorably dimpled.
Miss Maggie, with another sigh, turned and went out into the kitchen. The next day, on the street, Mr. Smith met Mellicent Blaisdell. She was with a tall, manly-looking, square-jawed young fellow whom Mr. Smith had never seen before. Mellicent smiled and blushed adorably. Then, to his surprise, she stopped him with a gesture. "Mr. Smith, I know it's on the street, but I I want Mr.
I carry a piece in a gold box at the bottom of my vest pocket, that I may occasionally take it out and experience a sense of gratitude for divine benefits." He took out his pet lump, rubbed it on the outside of his wine bottle, poured out a glassful and drank it, smiling adorably at me in ecstasy! "We were speaking of the Tuileries.
And a strong, kindly gentleman was just what poor little lost Barbara needed the most. Unconsciously she tilted her pointed chin forward adorably, and smiled. "Oh, now it's all right, isn't it?" said she. "I am glad," he replied, the look of amusement deepening in his gray eyes. "And a moment ago it was all wrong. What was the matter?"
The clear, wide, gray eyes, under their arching brows, the mobile lips, held as it were the smile in solution; when one addressed her it broke swiftly into being, the pink lips lifting adorably above the white teeth, the long fringed eyes crinkling deliciously about the corners. Johnnie loved to laugh, and the heart of any reasonable being was instantly moved to give her cause.
She did not at all resent her husband's laying the burden of comfort upon her. He had always left Terry to her. She looked at his young angry face. He was ramping up and down the little boudoir like an animal in a cage. He was adorably young and she loved him. What was she to say? "I'm not a child," Terry went on. "Things can't stand like this, as Father expects them to, apparently.
"Why are you so disagreeable?" she pouted. "I know I'm a perfect fool, and the champagne has gone to my silly head and you'll never catch me this way again.... Don't scowl at me. Why don't you act like other men? Don't you know how?" "Know how?" he repeated, looking down into the adorably flushed face uplifted. "Know how to do what?" "To flirt. I don't.
Bodice and train of white poplin; the latter wrought with patterns representing night and morning: a morning made of silver leaves with silver birds fluttering through leafy trees, butterflies sporting among them, and over all a sunrise worked in gold and silver thread; then on the left side the same sun sank amid rosy clouds, and there butterflies slept with folded wing, and there birds roosted on bending boughs; veils of silver tissue softened the edges of the train, silver stars gleamed in the corn-coloured hair, the long hands, gloved with white undressed kid, carried a silver fan; she was adorably beautiful and adorably pale, and she floated through the red glare, along the scarlet line, to the weary-looking man in maroon breeches, like some wonderful white bird of downy plumage.
Messer Simone's plan had one great merit to the mind of a foreigner denied the lucidity of our Italian intelligence it was adorably simple. I can give it to you now in a nutshell as I learned it later, not as I knew it then, for I did not know it then.
She was looking adorably fresh and pretty. She sat opposite a stout, severe-looking dame in black. Directly my eyes alighted on her I schooled them into a studiously vacant expression. She, poor girl, was no diplomatist. She started; she glanced anxiously at Miss Dibbs; I saw her lips move; she blushed; she seemed almost to smile. I was equal to the occasion.
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