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And I've left you the blushy side." What could I do? There she stood, fair, slim, bobbed-haired, green-kirtled, serious-eyed, carelessly juicy-lipped, holding up the peach. I, to whom all wall-fruit is death, bit into the side that blushed. She anxiously watched my expression. "Topping, isn't it?" "Yum, yum," said I. "Isn't it?" she said, taking back the peach. That's the beauty of childhood.

For the living-room, she used wild ragged robins in the blue bowl, and on one end of the mantel set a pitcher of saffron and on the other arrowhead lilies. For her room, she selected big, blushy mallows that grew all along Singing Water and around the lake. "Isn't that slightly peculiar?" questioned the Harvester. "Take a peep," said the Girl, opening her door.

I felt as if I'd got into a romance, sitting there, watching the Neckar rolling through the valley, listening to the music of the Austrian band below, and waiting for my lover, like a real storybook girl. I had a feeling that something was going to happen and I was ready for it. I didn't feel blushy or quakey, but quite cool and only a little excited.

"She was of a lovely height," says Tony Aston, "with dark brown hair and eyebrows, black, sparkling eyes, and a fresh, blushy complexion; and, whenever she exerted herself, had an involuntary flushing in her breast, neck, and face, having continually a cheerful aspect, and a fine set of even white teeth; never making an exit, but that she left the audience in an imitation of her pleasant countenance."

"Would you ever think that was Olive?" said Kittie, as they looked. "Think how quiet and snappy she used to be, and how ugly she always looked, and just see how pretty she is now, and how she laughs and talks. But she's not in love, dear no; she looks as cool and dignified as a cucumber, not a bit blushy, or anything of the kind." "Well, I should hope not," said Kat severely.

"'Yes, I'm married, and his voice sounded queer. 'I've got a boy too, see. "He took a locket from his flannel shirt and opened it. A curly-headed, dimpled little youngster laughed out at me. "'Well, I'm d ! and then I took off my hat, for in the other side was a woman and, gentlemen, she was a woman! When I seen her it made me feel blushy and ashamed. Gee! She was a stunner.

And she a fine, hard, hearty, blushy, big lump of a gerr'l. And 'tis true what they said " The details that followed were hissed, prestissimo, into the ear of Miss Coppinger, but that Dr. Aherne was to be blamed, was made as clear to Dick Talbot-Lowry as to his cousin. The tale was concluded in tears. "Look! I has to cry when I thinks of it!" It is impossible with Mrs.

They had "put it on" considerably in order to get ahead of the doctor's party; for they considered that as Parson expressed it "it would be a jolly lot less blushy work" to be there before the head master arrived.