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Updated: June 18, 2025
Chubby-faced babies were playing in the sanded walks and smiling young mothers watched them from the doors. Phil started to put a question, stammered and was silent. "What is it?" Custis asked. "You'll pardon my asking it, old boy, but are these black folks married?" The Southern boy laughed heartily. "I should say so. A negro wedding is one of the joys of a plantation boy's life."
Pupil Godard, who was a chubby-faced fellow with sleepy eyes, rose automatically and in one single stream, like a running tap, recited, without stopping to take breath, "The Wolf and the Lamb," rolling off La Fontaine's fable like the thread from a bobbin run by steam.
And so low is he reduced, that he blubbers over the reflection upon his past fondness for her cubs, and upon his present doubts of their being his: 'What a damn'd thing is it, Belford, if Tom and Hal should be the hostler dog's puppies and not mine! Very true! and I think the strong health of the chubby-faced muscular whelps confirms the too great probability. But I say not so to him.
When the little green curtain that veiled the organ loft was drawn aside for a moment Dick had a glimpse of her, looking out her music before she began, with a chubby-faced boy who was to "blow" for her at her hand: and this foolish lover thought of Luca della Robbia's friezes, and the white vision of Florentine singers and players on the lute.
The complexion of the two children was a sort of compromise between the complexions of their parents chubby-faced, chestnut-coloured, curly-headed, rollicking little pests, who would never be quiet, and whose little black buttons of eyes were always peering into something, and whose little plugs of fingers would, in spite of every precaution to prevent, be diving into mother's work-box, and various other highly inconvenient and inappropriate places.
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