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The horse in question was a mild-eyed, rather good-looking quadruped, tied by a halter to the elm at Miss Cordelia's door and contentedly munching a mouthful of geranium stalks. Cynthia Ann came through the hedge with the letter. "Maybe this will explain," she said. "Same boy brought it as brought the horse a little freckly chap mostly all grin and shirtsleeves.
I'm going to wash the ink off your face, so hold still." She dipped her gingham apron under the trapdoor in the flooring where the clear, cool water was, and taking his chin in her coarse little freckly hands, washed the face of her hero and partner. And meanwhile Wiggle tugged on her apron as if he thought she were inflicting some injury upon the boy.
"It wur a fair gal, Lord knows," said the old fish-wife who had followed them in; "it warn't black and freckly, never. Sich kinds don't love this salt water, Dirk Sharp, ye couldn't ha' raised her, man!" "Oh, my little gal!" murmured Dirk, smoothing a fleck of golden hair with his great brawny hand.
Besides, even if Crossan had suddenly developed symptoms of kindly idiocy, neither wood-carving or lace-making could possibly have made Rose's freckly faced young man rich enough to buy a gold brooch. The thing puzzled me nearly as much as did the Finola's midnight activity. All competent critics appear to agree that art ought to be kept entirely distinct from moral purposes.
"If she hadn't sprung that old oral exam on us " "Oh, if ifs and ands were pots and pans!" Flora, rather freckly, elbowy, and far too tall, was none the less about to be pretty. She was frailly fair, like her mother, and could already throw her blue eyes about their balls, in the Esperanto of coquetry.
I want to get out in the honest, freckly sunshine. Do the potatoes need hoeing, ma? All right, pa and I will go at them. I like people, and all that, but I have to mix in lots of blue sky and plants, and a few good, honest horses, cows, dogs and cats who have no underlying motives and are never suspicious or jealous, and have no regrets over anything they've done."
He shook his head a little quicker, to recover credit for a healthy incredulity, and arranged a newspaper he was reading against difficulties, to gain advantages of position and a better discrimination of its columns. "If it was the freckly one with the red head," said Aunt M'riar, referring back to the fracas of the morning, "all I can say is, I'm sorry you took Micky off him."
While Jorrocks and I were talking in the waist of the ship to leeward, I observed the first mate, Mr Macdougall who had the forenoon watch, and was in charge of the vessel for the time approach close to the break of the poop, and stop in his walk up and down the deck once or twice, as if he were on the point of hailing us to know what we were palavering about; but something seemed to change his intention, so he refrained from calling out, as I expected, although he glowered down on Jorrocks and I, with a frown on his freckly sandy-haired face, "as if he could eat us both up without salt," as the boatswain said, on my pointing out the mate's proximity.
"Then why on earth is she leaving? What else can she have to complain of?" "There was trouble. The sort of trouble nobody could possibly foresee or guard against. You know Tom Kitterick, don't you?" "The boy who cleans your boots? Yes, I do. A freckly faced brat." "Exactly. Well, it appears that Miss Battersby is rather particular about her complexion, and "
It was Tom Kitterick who put it there, and I helped him. Tom Kitterick is the boy who cleans the boots and pumps the water. It was that time," she added, "that I got paint all over my blue dress. She said it was Tom Kitterick's fault." "It may have been," I said, "partly. Anyhow Tom Kitterick is a red-haired, freckly youth. It wouldn't do him any harm to be slanged a bit for something."
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