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"An' now," said Ozias Crann in conclusion, "all them fellers is a-diggin'." "Whut's in the box!" demanded Swof-ford, his big baby-face all in a pucker of doubt. "The gold an' silver he ought ter hev paid the miners, of course. They always 'lowed they never tuk a dollar off him; they jes' got a long range shot at him!
Looking up, he saw beside him his former cloister companion the renegade monk, Hordle John. "By the thorn of Glastonbury! ill days are coming upon Beaulieu," said he. "Here they have got rid in one day of the only two men within their walls for I have had mine eyes upon thee, youngster, and I know that for all thy baby-face there is the making of a man in thee. Then there is the Abbot, too.
At the same time a powerful hand grasped his throat, and a lantern was thrust in his face. "Let go, and I will tell you," gasped the youth, restraining his indignation at such unnecessary violence. The grasp tightened, however, instead of relaxing. "Speak out, baby-face," roared the voice, referring, in the latter expression, no doubt, to our hero's juvenility.
But like as not, you can sometime do something for me worth more than a dozen sweaters." "I hope so, I'm sure. Will you tell me if I can?" "Yes, baby-face! I declare, Dolly, it's hard to realise you're fifteen years old! You act about twelve, and look ten!" "Oh, not so bad as that!" and Dolly laughed gaily. "I s'pose I do seem younger than I am, because I've always lived in a small town.
They had pulled some of the white and yellow blossoms, and had then stood still to listen to the flute-like voice of an unseen minstrel. Hand-in-hand they listened; the little boy with his large brown eyes fixed on the tree from whence came the song, the little girl with her baby-face uplifted, and one pink finger held up as much as to say "Hush! hush!"
"I don't see what every one can see in that little pink-and-white baby-face of hers to rave over so!" cried Gertie, hotly. "I can't imagine where in the world people see her. I have as much as told her she was not expected to come into the parlor or drawing-room when strangers were there, and what do you suppose she said?" "Cried, perhaps," said Bess, yawning with ennui.
Ugliness in infancy is a promise, though perhaps a doubtful one, of beauty in manhood; and in Richard's case the promise was fulfilled: hardly a hint was left of the baby-face which had repelled his father.
The weak, struggling resolves in his heart grew strong, and he said within himself, while the tears fell slowly down his cheeks, "I will; I'll begin to-day." The coffin-lid was screwed down, and Johnny's baby-face shut out from them for ever.
I thank you for the hints you have thrown out before my appearance, the suddenness of which alone has prevented you from carrying your confidence to a pitch which would have placed my life and that of others at the discretion of a boy, who, when the cause of God and his country is laid before him, has not leisure to think of them, so much is he occupied with such a baby-face as thine."
Pritchard said, "if she wouldn't mind her telling the sweetest baby-face that ever had so much sense belonging to it." The morning was half spent in dozing slumbers, when Fleda heard a rush of footsteps, much lighter and sprightlier than good Mrs. Pritchard's, coming up the stairs, and pattering along the entry to her room, and, with little ceremony, in rushed Florence and Constance Evelyn.
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