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In a tiny Swiss village, behind the angle of the school-house wall, I came across a maiden crying bitterly, her head resting on her arm. I asked her what had happened. Between her sobs she explained that a school companion, a little lad about her own age, having snatched her hat from her head, was at that moment playing football with it the other side of the wall.
But the mother said apologetically to Lena: "Mamma is so funny about coming in here, although she knows how much we want her." "Here she is now," said Lena. And the father appeared with Granny on his arm, and Granny was all dressed up in her best skirt of black silk thick as cloth, with a cap of black lace on her head.
She dropped her hand from his arm and drew herself away from him. She was trembling from head to foot. "Please please don't misunderstand me!" she stammered, like a frightened child "I I have no temper! I I feel nothing I only want to please you to know what you wish "
Martin in the drawing-room a large Connemara gentleman, white, massive face; a stoop forward in his neck, the consequence of a shot in the Peninsular War. "Well! will you come to dinner? dinner's ready. Lady Culling Smith, take my arm; Sir Culling, Miss Edgeworth."
Yes: her mind was stayed by a 'courage not her own; ... its calmness was that of a child who, in its utter helplessness, clings to its father's arm." Her distress was aggravated by the alarming illness of her little boy, caused by the foul air of the warf-house and the absence of accustomed comforts; but, by the blessing of God upon her watchful care, it was spared to her.
Very soon Rollin came back, and he and Virginia, arm in arm as they had lately been in the habit of doing, walked up and down the long hall. It was easy for their talk to settle finally upon Rachel because of the place she was to occupy in the plans which were being made for the purchase of property at the Rectangle.
But remembering how they had last parted, Shann did not hurry to meet him. That shadow-shape stretched out a long arm in a sweep as if to pull aside some of the vapor concealing them from each other. Then Shann shivered as if that fog had suddenly turned into the drive of frigid snow. For the mist did roll back so that the two of them stood in an irregular clearing in its midst.
I shall be a man again." Agnes leaned heavily on his arm; the deep snow made walking difficult, and this was her excuse. Ralph only noticed it to lend her assistance; his thoughts ran wildly toward Lina French, the gentle, kind-hearted girl who had been so long a portion of his own life, and whose unworthiness he could not yet wholly realize.
No, my lad, it would just be waste of time, and nothing else." Still Tom did not feel at all convinced, but said no more. David did though. It was pleasant to the back standing there, with one foot resting upon the great five-pronged fork; and as he stood with his fingers on the handle, he kept his left arm across his loins, and gave Tom a cunning leer. "It's all right, sir; taters won't hurt.
I want to speak to you alone for a moment, said Eva hurriedly, taking her friend's arm; and, turning back with her to the latter's room, she added, 'What do you think, Amy, the Whartons are quite ready to start housekeeping if only you will, and as they are cautious Scotch people it's sure to be all right! 'Who told you that, Eva? You mean that Vava is quite ready, don't you?
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