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Miss Granger's portrait was finished; and the baby picture a chubby blue-eyed cherub, at play on a bank of primroses, with a yellowhammer perched on a blossoming blackthorn above his head, and just a glimpse of blue April sky beyond; a dainty little study of colour in which the painter had surpassed himself was making rapid progress, to the young mother's intense delight. Very soon Mr.
Then the orange curtains parted and on a gilded dais the width of the room, in startling relief against a purple circle the size of a tower clock, the Old Year, hoar on his beard and with limbs that shivered in an attitude of abdication, held out an hourglass to a pink-legged cherub with a gold band in his or her short curls.
Here's the key," and Elsmere held out to Catherine the aforesaid article, his honeyed voice and polite words matched by a cherubic smile. "The key?" asked Catherine. "O, the key to the library. How did you get it?" "Algy give it to me. I Algy's little help-boy," smiled the cherub. Catherine tried to take the key, but it refused to come. "What's the matter?" she asked. "It seems to be caught."
The cherub not presuming to address so tremendous an object, transacted her supper through the agency of a third person, as 'Mutton to your Ma, Bella, my dear'; and 'Lavvy, I dare say your Ma would take some lettuce if you were to put it on her plate. Mrs Wilfer's manner of receiving those viands was marked by petrified absence of mind; in which state, likewise, she partook of them, occasionally laying down her knife and fork, as saying within her own spirit, 'What is this I am doing? and glaring at one or other of the party, as if in indignant search of information.
There was a sound of whistling, too, when a voice in the stalls, suggestive of a molting cockerel, cried out with great conviction: "That's very smart!" All the house looked round. It was the cherub, the truant from the boarding-school, who sat with his fine eyes very wide open and his fair face glowing very hotly at sight of Nana.
Groggy Fox pointed to one of the surrounding vessels as he swept past in the Cormorant. "She must have lost her reckoning," muttered Lockley, as he tried to catch sight of the vessel to which the flag belonged which was not easy, owing to the crowd of smacks passing to and fro between it and him. Just at that moment a hearty cheer was heard to issue from the Admiral's smack, the Cherub.
Why, with a nose shaped like that for you have a fine nose how did you manage it, poor cherub?... You will tell me that 'not every woman knows a man when she sees him'; and a pity it is that they marry so at random as they do, it makes you sorry to see it.
Whenever I heard Too-Too's musical voice sounding strangely to the ear from so great a height, and beheld him peeping down upon me from out his leafy covert, he always recalled to my mind Dibdin's lines 'There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To look out for the life of poor Jack. Birds bright and beautiful birds fly over the valley of Typee.
"He is not doing fery vell, tear Montame Zipod, not fery vell," said poor Schmucke, brushing away the tears from his eyes. "Pooh! you make too much of it, my dear M. Schmucke; we must take things as we find them; Cibot might be at death's door, and I should not take it to heart as you do. Come! the cherub has a good constitution.
Let us accept this idea of the will. Let us suppose that a separate soul or faculty called the will governs the mind. That means that the "little cherub" governs the man. Can the man be justly blamed for the acts of the cherub? No. Man did not make the cherub, did not select the cherub, and is obliged to obey the cherub. God made the cherub, and gave him command of the man.
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