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"It's exquisite," said Cromer, looking at her admiringly; "a sweet disorder in the dress." "Oh, I know that lady you quote! She always had her shoestrings untied and her hat on crooked!" Cromer looked amazed, as if a saint had been guilty of heresy, and Patty laughed afresh at his astonished look. "If you want to see sweet disorder in dress, here's your chance," cried Mona.
It was a week before he reached Loreto, a week of loneliness, hunger, thirst, and torrid monotony. A week, too, of thought and bitterness of spirit. In spite of his love, which never cooled, and his courage, which never quailed, Nature, in her guise of foul and crooked hag, mocked at earthly happiness, at human hope, at youth and passion.
Bolingbroke, on becoming King Henry the Fourth, not only restored the crooked little Welshman to his possessions, but gave him employments of great trust and profit in Herefordshire.
His defeat by the American fishermen had been hard for his pride. "I suppose you mean that crooked Schofield's boat?" he flashed back, his face darkening. "What do you mean by that?" They were below now in her father's little cabin, and she turned upon him with flashing eyes. "Just what I said," he returned sullenly. "You say things then that have no foundation in fact," she retorted vigorously.
We heard its roar as it leaped over the rocks on Gloster Point, and its long, unbroken wail when it rolled in on Whitefoot Beach. In mild weather, too, when our harbor was quiet, we still heard its whimper. Behind the village, the ground rose toward the north, where the horizon was bounded by woods of oak and pine, intersected by crooked roads, which led to towns and villages near us.
Devout he is, and we profit by his gifts. The treasurer may rejoice over them, and the dates off a crooked tree taste as well as those off a straight one. But if I were the Divinity I should prize them no higher than a hoopoe's crest; for He, who sees into the heart of the giver-alas! what does he see!
I hardly know whether to call it a tree, a bush, or a vine, for it partakes more or less of the characteristics of all three, and yet does not look much like any of them. It resembles as much as anything a dwarf pine tree, with a remarkably gnarled, crooked, and contorted trunk, growing horizontally like a neglected vine along the ground, and sending up perpendicular branches through the snow.
"Can a man dodge a streak of lightning or a thunder bolt? If he could, there would he some use attempting to get beyond the reach of that crooked horn devil when he starts on a butting expedition. I believe no bones are broken, for which, I suppose, I must feel thankful."
No, these are children of seven and eight years. Tiny faces, with large dull eyes, overshadowed by huge puffed, ricketty foreheads, their small arms just skin and bone, and above the crooked legs with their dislocated joints the swollen, pointed stomachs of the hunger oedema.... 'You see this child here, the physician in charge explained; 'it consumed an incredible amount of bread, and yet did not get any stronger.
Somehow, since that first foolish concealment, she had constantly been forced into little crooked paths where she could not walk quite straight, but she consoled herself by the reflection that she had not told any untruth. A few days later Mrs Forrest, returning from a drive with her face full of satisfaction, called Anna to her in her sitting-room.
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