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Updated: May 10, 2025
As Lafcadio Hearn described it "the quaint, whimsical, wonderfully colored little town, the sweetest, queerest, darlingest little city in the Antilles.... Walls are lemon color, quaint balconies and lattices are green. Palm trees rise from courts and gardens into the warm blue sky, indescribably blue, that appears almost to touch the feathery heads of them.
Nan glanced up at him fearfully, but it was apparent he had not heard. She was no longer angry. The occasion was too big. Dick seemed to her to be speaking out of his ignorance and not from any wilful cruelty. She got up and went to Raven, as he stood there, put her hand through his arm and smiled up at him. "Rookie," she said, with a half laugh that was really a caress, "darlingest Rookie!
"And don't you remember," continued Sylvia, "that Fan was with us on the very, very day when darling auntie told us about the packet the day when you came out of her room with your eyes as red as a ferret's; and don't you remember how you couldn't help howling that day, and how far off we had to go for fear darlingest auntie would hear you?
She caught his forepaws, and he whipped his beautiful tail between his legs, and looked about with agonized eyes while she dragged him through a clumsy dance. "He's the darlingest pup we ever had!" Alix stated to Cherry, who was departing for the upper regions and a complete costume. "He needs a bath," Anne observed coldly, and Peter's abrupt shout of laughter made Alix flush angrily.
She has the darlingest new basket-carriage if she only looked like anything when she rode in it. Etta is getting ready to enter Bryn Mawr. She is all fussed up about leaving her dog and cat. Then I went down to one of Lane Cross's receptions, and over to Merrill's" she was referring to the great store "and home. I saw Taylor Lord and Polk Lynde together in Wabash Avenue."
He is the darlingest child, with ash-blond hair cut Dutch style. I wonder if you didn't look like him when you were a boy, with your light hair?" "Not a chance. I was a grubby kid. Made noises.... Gee! what a bully place. And the house!... Will you marry me?" "Yes, I will!... It is a dear place. Mrs. Pat is " "When?"
"We have loved each other so long, she and I," she said apologetically to Tommy. "Ah," she said impulsively, when he seemed to be hurt, "don't you see it is because she doubts you that I am so sorry for the poor thing!" "Dearest, darlingest," she called to the child she had been, "don't think that you can come to me when he is away, and whisper things against him to me.
"Here's a dollar and fifteen cents," he said, holding out to her all his available wealth. "I almost forgot I had it. You can use it to start the fund." "Oh, Chet!" Billie's eyes were wet and she hugged him fondly. "You're the very darlingest brother I ever had!" "And the only one " Chet was beginning, when Billie interrupted him by breaking away and putting a finger to her forehead.
"The darlingest princess of all housekeepers," echoed Firefly, leaping on her sister, and half-strangling her with a fierce embrace. "And we'll all subscribe," said the twins. "And it will really be delightfully romantic; something to remember when you aren't housekeeper," concluded Katie.
Perhaps the dresses were simple, but they looked expensive and dressy," she added for want of a better word. "That pretty dark girl that sat next me had on the darlingest pink organdy with a Dutch neck. Oh, it was so dear. I wonder where she got it?" She had not long to wonder. The Boston shops seemed to have anticipated the needs of girls all over the country.
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