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What Agnes is, I need not say. I have always read something of her poor mother's story, in her character; and so I tell it you tonight, when we three are again together, after such great changes. I have told it all. His bowed head, and her angel-face and filial duty, derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they had had before.
She greeted him with a sardonic smile. "I don't know whether you'll see your girl or not," she said. "Give her time to get over her tantrums." Cosme turned a lightning look upon her. "Tantrums? Sheila?" "Oh, my friend, she has a devil of her own, that little angel-face! Make yourself comfortable." Miss Blake pointed him to a chair. "I'll tell her you're here."
And as the eager, enthusiastic words came from his lips, he beheld Sah-luma's beautiful countenance brighten more and more, till it appeared mysteriously transfigured into a majestic Angel-face that for one brief moment startled him by the divine tenderness of its compassionate smile!
She saw only his deplorable physical condition, and his perfect angel-face. His skin and complexion were so transparent that one could almost have counted the veins beneath the surface; the sun had no power to burn that face to the russet which was the general complexion among prairie folk.
'It was extraordinarily easy, as it turned out, you see. 'Ogden, darling, observed Mrs Ford, 'don't go away. I want you near me. 'Oh, all right. 'Then stay by me, angel-face. 'Oh, slush! muttered angel-face beneath his breath. 'Say, I'm darned hungry, he added. It was if an electric shock had been applied to Mrs Ford. She sprang to her feet. 'My poor child!
Miss Elton spoke to her very kindly for minutes, and asked some questions about Willie, thanking her for what she had done for the children. "Lor', ma'am," she said, "who could help it; such children as they are? It's wonderful the way that boy looks after the little chap; and as for the little one, why, with his angel-face and pretty ways he'd get round the hardest woman."
Not ungently, he placed the squirming mass in the baptismal dress beside the girl on the bed. With the instinct of ages, the baby stopped wailing and opened her mouth. "The little cuss!" cried Al, delighted. "Ain't that me all over? Little angel-face the minute I get to the table!" Unresisting now, Claribel let Rose uncover her firm white breast.
It was late in the night before there appeared, in the dark room, the vision of his mother's angel-face gazing at him, her clear eyes filled with mingled love and understanding; and midnight had long struck before that which he instinctively expected was finally given: when, like a diapason, crashing, fortissimo, through the dark, rolled the magnificent, despairing chords of the final theme of the great "Tosca Symphony" the motif, the epitome, of his own, dark life.
Suchandsuch's elaborate production of the great London success, 'The Rancid Prune, with the following all-star cast of metropolitan favorites. And some of them, ach, Himmel! "I do wish that the merry Springtime would hurry up and kick in. Them can have the Winter that likes it, but not for little Angel-face; give me the summer and that 'Robins Nest Again' number.
Like a nocturnal spectre flies he through the desert waste; the storm-wind drives him forward, it lifts the mantle that enwraps him like a cloud, and under that mantle is seen an angel-face, the smile of a delicate little girl, two tender childish arms clasping the form of the count, a slight elfish form tremblingly reposing upon the count's breast.
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