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'Oh, for God's sake, don't, cried Tony, tears running over, and her dream of freedom, her visions of romance, drowning. 'It was like the snapping of the branch of an oak, when the trunk stands firm, Emma resumed, in her desire to scourge as well as to soften. 'But similes applied to him will strike you as incongruous. Tony swayed her body, for a negative, very girlishly and consciously.
The picture she drew was, in truth, the picture of one of those social facts on which perhaps the future of England depends. She drew it girlishly, quite unconscious of its large bearings, gossiping about this person and that, with a free expenditure of very dogmatic opinion on the habits and ways which were not hers.
On the evening of her return, at Nana's house, he trembled when Francois announced the lieutenant, but the latter jested gaily and treated him like a young rascal, whose escapade he had favored as something not likely to have any consequences. The lad's heart was sore within him; he scarcely dared move and blushed girlishly at the least word that was spoken to him.
But was that delicate and virgin face, where changes with every moment coursed each other, harmonious to the changes of the mind, as shadows in a valley reflect the clouds of heaven! was that face, so ingenuous, so girlishly revelant of all, even of the slightest, the most transitory, emotion, the face of one hardened in deceit and inured to shame?
She was small, and girlishly slight, with slender ankles and exquisite little feet; indeed I think she had the tiniest feet of any woman I had ever met.
'Oh, yes! it is all Percy's doing! said Violet, there checking herself; but laughing and blushing, so that for a moment she looked quite girlishly pretty. No more was heard of Mr. Fotheringham till Johnnie came home from the afternoon's service, and reported that the owl-man was in the drawing-room with Aunt Theodora.
Also, he clung to it till the last drop was gone, which caused Helen to wonder when last the colt had fed. Then, as if by way of reward for this kindly attention, he tossed his head suddenly, striking the bottle out of her hands. This was play; and Helen, girlishly delighted, sprang toward him.
Never before had he seen her oblivious to an approaching step; and after a momentary contemplation of her absorbed figure, so girlishly sweet and yet so deeply intent, he advances to her side, and peering earnestly into her face, observes with a seriousness quite unusual to him: "Puss, you are looking worried, not like yourself at all. I've noticed it for some time. What's up.
Her next words were directed to the squatter: "I've come to beg ye, Pappy Lon, to let me stay in Tarrytown. Mr. Shellington wants to marry me." She was so frail, so girlishly sweet and desirable, that Lem uttered an oath. But Lon gestured a command of silence. "Ye can't marry no man yit, Flea," said he. "Ye has to go back to the hut."
Josephine's arm was about her, and Sally was regarding the group with a radiant smile, crying girlishly; "Oh, how good you people do look! How dear of you all to come down! If I only could stay just a little longer! We don't stop but ten minutes, instead of twenty, the train is so late.
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