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My pretty Miss Innocence came up the street slowly with her handsome baby-face on fire, and two minutes later Gerald Chandos followed her in a wondrous hurry, and joined her and carried her off, looking very guilty and charming, and a trifle reluctant, I must admit." Dolly's cheeks flushed, and her heart began to beat hotly.
There came a slight sound at an open door behind her that led to another room. She turned her head with a quick smile. "Jake!" He came, treading softly, and stood beside her. The failing light on his rugged face showed it strangely softened, almost transformed. He stooped after a moment and kissed her. "Why isn't the little 'un in bed?" he said, with his eyes on the sleeping baby-face.
"Taking out a few small coins, he closed the pocketbook, putting the little miniature in his bosom; then walked as swiftly as his failing strength would allow; reached, and was about to enter, an eating-house. At the door, he hesitated; and, drawing forth the little picture, looked again at the baby-face.
"But perhaps that is your own breakfast," he said. "No, I have had enough without payment. A thousand thanks, my gentle one." There was no rejoinder in words; but the piece of bread was pushed a little nearer to him, as if in impatience at his refusal; and as the long dark eyes of the stranger rested on the baby-face, it seemed to be gathering more and more courage to look up and meet them.
And I suspect it was this masculine charm, and not her feminine features, that had won her the confidence of Baker and Co., and the respect of his female patients: big or little, excited or not excited, there was not one of them this bicipital baby-face could not pin by the wrists, and twist her helpless into a strong-room, or handcuff her unaided in a moment; and she did it, too, on slight provocation.
Receive my thanks, lady, for your intended favors, and believe me not the less grateful though I may decline to accept them. Only hear the great lady! Girls of your station generally think themselves fortunate to obtain such promotion. What is your dependence, my dainty one? Are these fingers too delicate for work? or is it your pretty baby-face that makes you give yourself these airs?
"You don't mean to say that you have a sweetheart do you?" said a youth of about seventeen, who had a tendency to be what is styled cheeky. Gunter turned on him with contempt. "Well, now," he replied, "if I had a smooth baby-face like yours I would not say as I had, but bein' a man, you see, I may ventur' to say that I have."
He afterward left his sword at Summit Station, and I, obligingly, rode back three miles to recover it. We dined at Daker's, where Glumley sat beside the baby-face, pursuant to his art-duties, and the plump, red-cheeked miss sat beside me.
Well, my dearest, said my master, pray proceed with your story until, we have done supper, since the ladies seem pleased with it. She called me painted dirt, baby-face, waiting-maid, beggar's brat, and beggar-born; but I said, As long as I knew my innocence, I was easy in every thing, but to have my dear parents abused.
"Either some cruel trick has been played upon the boy, or he has been guilty of some act of madness" "Impossible!" cried we in a breath; "Clarian is as pure as Heaven." "Look at him, Thorne!" said my good chum, "look at the child's baby-face, so frank and earnest! look at him! You dare not say an impure thought ever awoke in that brain, an impure word ever crossed those lips." Dr.
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