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Such funny suits you would think them now funnier even than Pamela's white frock, with its skirt to the ankles and blue-sashed waist up close under the arm-pits, for even if she walked in just as I describe her you would only call her "a Kate-Greenway-dressed little girl."
He had attentively scrutinized a small white-clad, blue-sashed maiden, with curling chestnut hair, well-opened hazel eyes, decided chin, Greek mouth and aristocratic cheek-bones. A maiden with a look of blood and breed about her. "Can you ride, Boy?" "A bit." "Can you fight?" "A bit." "Can you swim?" "Not well." "I can ever so farther. D'you know French and German?" "Not a word."
Agony to the nervous visitor alone; for the inhabitants of Amboise love their shrieking saws and currycombs, just as they love their shrieking parrots and cockatoos. They gather in happy crowds to watch the blue-sashed boy, and drink in the noise he makes. We drink it in, too, as he is immediately beneath our windows.
Do, Margaret, please ring the bell for Hanley. But Margaret almost liked him better in these manifestations of character than in his good blue-sashed moods.
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