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"'Baby-girl, I says, 'there ain't a bird 'round here that ain't got a mate; and that's what makes 'em so happy. I ain't got nobody but you, Ruby don't go 'way from me, child stay with me. And I told her. She looked at me startled like, same as a deer does when he hears a dog bark; then she jumped up and begin to cry. "'Oh, Jim Jim dear Jim! she says.
Then she felt an arm about her shoulder and herself being drawn close against her father's heart as he exclaimed brokenly: "My baby-girl, grown up! My Kate!" After an absence from Prouty of several weeks, Kate stepped off the train alone one afternoon and furnished the town with the liveliest sensation of its kind that it had known since the Toomeys had gone "on East."
"Madre de Dios! mi sueno!" screamed Carmen, abandoning her preparations for the morning meal, as Feliu, nude, like a marine god, rushed in and held out to her a dripping and gasping baby-girl, "Mother of God! my dream!" But there was no time then to tell of dreams; the child might die.
A wife can sense these things as a barometer senses rain." "Oh, Marie!" Julia whispered, and for a while there was silence in the room, broken only by the chuckles of the baby-girl. Both women looked down, at the sound, upon the fluffy head and Julia asked, still in a bated whisper: "What do you think you'll do?" "Nothing," said Marie, "above all, nothing.
Sadie and James were missing, but as "a wedding present" came a telegram, announcing the safe arrival of a nine-pound baby-girl. Edith was not there, either, and the date of sailing for Holland had been postponed. She had gained less rapidly than they had hoped, and still lay, very pale and quiet, on the sofa between the big windows in her room.
Before the day had closed another soul had winged its flight to Heaven, and the tiny waxen form of Lianor's baby-girl left in its last resting-place in the golden sand. A small wooden house, surrounded by sweet-scented flowers of brightest hue, amongst which a beautiful, dark-eyed woman was softly gliding, culling large clusters of the delicate blossoms.
His family consisted of an admirably energetic and thrifty wife, who had accompanied him from Illinois, where he used to be a schoolmaster, and one pretty little baby-girl indigenous to Strawberry Valley.
"And it is as large as a real, live baby, and has such a sweet, dear little face, and such pretty little hands, just like a real baby's and the dearest little toes, too," she added, kissing them. "I love it already, the little dear! and how prettily it is dressed, too, like a little baby-girl." He enjoyed her pleasure intensely.
She had full dark eyes like his, Clara's mouth, and a little round head that I knew would be covered with sunny curls, because this would make her the picture I had so longed to see. "Darling baby-girl, why did you linger so long? We have waited till our hope had well-nigh vanished," and the dark eyes turned on me for an answer, which my heart read, "It is well."
As each drew near she laid her basket at Balanice's feet, saying: 'Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your unhappiness! The Queen hastily opened the baskets, and found in each a lovely baby-girl, about the same age as the little Princess for whom she sorrowed so deeply.
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