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Then she wagged her head and raised a significant finger in perfect imitation of the flower-seller. "I am dabbling in magic. I am starting here a terrible and insidious campaign against gloom." The House Surgeon looked amused. "You make me shiver, all right; but I haven't the smallest guess coming. Would you mind putting it into scientific American?" "I'm afraid I couldn't.
There were leaves on the ailanthus-tree that Evelina could see from her bed, gentle clouds floated over it in the blue, and now and then the cry of a flower-seller sounded from the street. One day there was a shy knock on the back-room door, and Johnny Hawkins came in with two yellow jonquils in his fist.
If you mean a flower-seller or a flute-player or something of that kind " "How could I dare to suggest anything so improper?" Lysias hastily interposed. "The girl of whom I speak may be sixteen years old; she is innocence itself incarnate, and she looks like a bud ready to open perhaps in the morning dew that may succeed this very night, but which as yet is still enfolded in its cup.
"Oh, but, my dear, we don't wish to stay!" Nan said. "Only to eat here and inquire about those other girls." "Where' ye goin' to stop?" asked Inez, curiously. "We have friends out by Washington Park," Bess said. "They'd have met us, only there was some mistake in the arrival of our train." "Hi! Washington Park?" exclaimed the flower-seller. "Say, you must be big-bugs." Nan laughed.
Mason had shoes and stockings and hats that might help in the fitting out of the flower-seller; and she suggested that the child be brought to the house that her own sewing maid might make such changes in the garments as would be necessary to make them of use for Inez. "Not that the poor little thing is at all particular, I suppose, about her clothes," Bess remarked.
Full of the pleasant sense of being his own master and at liberty to walk in a road of his own choosing, he went onwards, and when he presently passed by the stall of a flower-seller, he began once more to think eagerly of Selene and the nosegay, which must long since have reached her hands.
What'd the boys do without you to sew their rags up decent an' tend to their hurt fingers an' share your dinner with 'em when when you have one an' they don't? "An' you so masterful like," went on the flower-seller, "a makin' everybody do as you say, whether or no. If it's a scrap in a tenement, is my Glory afraid? not a mite.
Mavis saw Windebank give the man something, the handsomeness of which made the recipient open his eyes. A flower-seller, who had witnessed the generous act, immediately pestered Windebank to buy of her wares, an example at once followed by others of her calling. He gave them all money, at which some of them forced their wired flowers upon him, whilst others overwhelmed him with thanks.
She was a fragile little creature of about ten years old, small for her age, with shy yet trustful eyes, and soft, brown, curly hair; and as she stood there, clad in a black frock and a straw hat, well worn, it is true, but free from tatters, with a piece of crape neatly fastened around it, had any one amidst that busy multitude paused to look at the little flower-seller, they would have wondered why so young a child was trusted alone in that noisy, bustling place.
She reached the corner just in time to bump into the flower-seller, who was turning about like some old tabby to settle himself and his basket. "Oh!" she cried in dismay, for the flower-seller was wizened and unsteady of foot, and she had sent him spinning about in a dizzy fashion. She put out a steadying hand.
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