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And how many melancholy tales of the same people at different periods! The country-girl—the showy, over-dressed woman—the drunken prostitute! The raw apprentice—the dissipated spendthrift—the thief! Talk of cabs! Cabs are all very well in cases of expedition, when it’s a matter of neck or nothing, life or death, your temporary home or your long one.
"You'll be devilish loath to give her up; I'm afraid I'll have to wait a cursed long time." "No, not long! Do not despair. Easy won, easy valued." "And was she easily won?" "Very! the game was a short one. She is a mere country-girl, you know, but eighteen or thereabouts suspecting nobody, and never dreaming that she had a heart or passions at all. She thought only of her poetry and her books.
What I dreaded most was one of those miserable matrimonial misalliances where a young fellow who does not know himself as yet flings his magnificent future into the checked apron-lap of some fresh-faced, half-bred country-girl, no more fit to be mated with him than her father's horse to go in double harness with Flora Temple.
We must compress the feet of the next generation, after the wise custom of China, so that they can't get away." "Whom have you seen?" "Mr. Monroe, an acquaintance of mine." "The same. The lady, it seems, is his cousin, and is, or was, my betrothed." "And you two brave men give up, foiled by a country-girl of twenty, or thereabouts!" "How is one to find her?"
The courtyard, which also sloped downward, ended at a little wall, from which small columns rose at equal distances united by a railing, more, however, for ornament than protection, for the bars of the railing were of painted wood. The old man, named Pingret, noted for his avarice, lived with a single woman-servant, a country-girl who did all the work of the house.
Ah, had she a mind such as I have described? You see what these priests say under oath picked men, men chosen for their places in that terrible court on account of their learning, their experience, their keen and practised intellects, and their strong bias against the prisoner. They make that poor country-girl out the match, and more than the match, of the sixty-two trained adepts. Isn't it so?
Finally, at the siege of Compiegne, held by the Duke of Burgundy, where she did valiant service, she was basely left alone in a retreat, though facing about and fighting to the last; and an archer pulled her off her horse. O the uproar that was made, and the thanksgivings that were sung, about the capture of this one poor country-girl!
"Your poor aunt Lucy!" "In Mexico he has been, but he is just coming home now he has been wounded, and he is coming home to spend a long furlough." "Coming home. That will make you all very happy. And Hugh is delicate and how are you, love? you hardly look like a country-girl. Mr. Olmney! " said Mrs.
In fact, no sooner had he withdrawn than the two women began a conversation in so low a tone that only a murmur of it reached his ear. "You came away in such a hurry," said the country-girl, "that you hardly took time to dress. A pretty-looking sight you are now! If we are going beyond Alencon, you must really make your toilet." "Oh! oh! Francine!" cried the lady. "What is it?"
It was almost a Yankee country-girl type; but perhaps it appeared so to Alma because it was, like that, pure Anglo-Saxon. Alma herself, with her dull, dark skin, slender in figure, slow in speech, with aristocratic forms in her long hands, and the oval of her fine face pointed to a long chin, felt herself much more Southern in style than this blooming, bubbling, bustling Virginian.
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