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Townlinson, paying a visit to Stornham and finding the bride a gentle, childish-looking girl, whose most marked expression was one of growing timorousness, had returned with a grave face. He foresaw the result, if her family did not stand by her with firmness, which he also foresaw her husband would prevent if possible.
"You small, childish-looking thing! And where in the wide world is your husband?" Agnes Darling covered her face with her hands, and broke out into a hysterical passion of tears. "Don't cry, you poor little unfortunate. Tell me if this faithless husband is the friend I once heard you say you were in search of?" "Yes, yes," Agnes answered, through her sobs. "Oh, Miss Danton!
Descending on a lonely reach of shore he proceeded to again disturb Malvina for the purpose of extracting tins. He expected his passenger would in broad daylight prove to be a pretty, childish-looking girl, somewhat dishevelled, with, maybe, a tinge of blue about the nose, the natural result of a three-hours' flight at fifty miles an hour.
It happened, in consequence, that I was the only person who could talk or listen to her through the long and dreary hours. At another time I might have recognized the danger of my post; but my patient had become so childish-looking, and her mind, enfeebled by delirium, was in so childish a condition, that it seemed to me I little more than tending some young girl whose age was far below my own.
As she did so, a little girl came out of the farmhouse and came slowly down the lane towards her. She was about twelve years old, very childish-looking for her age, and dressed in a fresh, yellow cotton frock, nearly covered by a big, white pinafore. Her little, round head was bare, and her black hair closely cropped like a boy's.
Miss Harper was lying as usual, but had a writing-case before her, and it was astonishing what neat caligraphy those weak childish-looking fingers could execute. It resembled the writer's own mind clear, delicate, well-arranged, exact. "We are not come to stay very long; but do we interrupt you, Elizabeth?" "Never, Anne, dear! I was only writing to Frederick. He is gone abroad, you are aware?"
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