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The little girl's reply was thoroughly characteristic: "Every house has its ugly duckling, dear boy," she observed quaintly, "and they seldom turn out swans except in story-books. However, it does not matter very much about a man's personal appearance; and you why, you might have been a great deal worse." Dick roared at the attempted consolation.
Saved from being thought a 'smug, by his title, his lack of any conspicuous scholastic ability, his obvious independence of what was thought of him, and a sarcastic tongue, which no one was eager to encounter, he remained the ugly duckling who refused to paddle properly in the green ponds of Public School tradition.
"I should like to know what Raymond was up to when we missed him coming home," said Valentine. "Yes," added Jack thoughtfully; "he was hiding away somewhere, for I could have sworn I heard his voice when I walked back to the corner." "He is my own child, and he is not so very ugly after all, if you look at him properly." The Ugly Duckling.
'Good morning, my duckling, says the lady friend, 'whither away so bold? 'I am going to the King for what he owes me. 'Oh! take me with thee! Drakestail said to himself: 'One can't have too many friends. ... 'I will, says he, 'but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired. Make yourself quite small, get into my throat go into my gizzard and I will carry you.
The ideas expressed by these mediating elements they may be independent words, affixes, or modifications of the radical element may be called "derivational" or "qualifying." Some concrete concepts, such as kill, are expressed radically; others, such as farmer and duckling, are expressed derivatively.
Well, the Lorrimers are almost dying at the thought of going. The ugly duckling told me the whole story to-day, and I never listened to anything more piteous; and Squire Lorrimer is hiding in London because of his poor feelings. In short, the moment for strong measures has arrived; and if you won't speak to Sir John, I will." Mrs. Bernard Temple turned white.
"Beauty?" said Nell, with a little laugh. "But I'm called 'the ugly duckling'!" "Charming!" exclaimed Antonia. "I'll immortalise this 'ugly duckling. She shall be the foreground for these pine trees, and the imprisoned sunbeams can light her up from behind." Notwithstanding her sorrow, Nell found it intensely interesting to be made the foreground of a picture.
Only take care that you learn to lay eggs, or to purr, and give out sparks!" "I think I will go out into the wide world," said the Duckling. "Yes, do go," replied the Hen. And so the Duckling went away. It swam on the water, and dived, but it was slighted by every creature because of its ugliness. Now came the autumn.
So the duckling sat in a corner, feeling very low spirited, till the sunshine and the fresh air came into the room through the open door, and then he began to feel such a great longing for a swim on the water, that he could not help telling the hen. "What an absurd idea," said the hen. "You have nothing else to do, therefore you have foolish fancies.
"And so he lay quite still, while the shot rattled through the rushes, and gun after gun was fired over him." The Ugly Duckling. At last the wells were reached, and after the wants of the wounded had been supplied, Jack and his comrades got a chance of quenching their parching thirst. Water!
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