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Linnet pulled at the fringe of her white shawl; Will Rheid had brought that shawl from Ireland a year ago. "Miss Prudence, do we have right desires, desires for things God likes, while we are praying?"
Beyond giving a hasty cheer, the people of the "Saratoga" paid little attention to the surrender of their chief enemy, but instantly turned their guns upon the "Linnet." In this combat the "Eagle" could take no part, and the thunder of her guns died away.
I have brought you something, too, Marjorie," he said unsteadily. But Marjorie ignored it and asked questions about Linnet and her home on shipboard. "Have I changed, Marjorie?" "No," she said. "You cannot change for the better, so why should you change at all?" "I don't like that," he returned seriously; "it is rather hard to attain to perfection before one is twenty-one.
Look at Linnet; she is happier to-day with her husband that reads only the newspapers, the nautical books, and his Bible, than Miss Prudence with all her lectures and concerts and buying books and knowing literary people! She couldn't make a Miss Prudence out of Linnet, but she will make a Miss Prudence twice over out of you."
It thawed the stiff boughs of the trees, and the snow dropped from them in gracious drops like dew. All nature seemed glad cruelly, mockingly, insensately glad lightsome, jubilant. The birds forsook their frost-bound nests, and sang cheerily in the clear morning air. One little linnet so very little perched on a delicate silver birch, and poured its full soul out of its liquid throat.
This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger than an England swan. One day, a young gentleman, who was nephew to my nurse's governess, came and pressed them both to see an execution. It was of a man who had murdered one of that gentleman's intimate acquaintance.
The bridegroom was a military man, in his scarlet uniform, a plump, bold-looking bird, very happy and proud just then. A goldfinch gave away the bride, and a linnet was bridesmaid. The ceremony was very fine; and, as soon as it was over, the blackbird, thrush and nightingale burst out in a lovely song.
I want you to taste Linnet's cream biscuit, too. She made them on purpose for you. There's father, now, coming with African John, and there is Will Rheid coming across lots. Well, I'm glad Linnet did make the biscuits."
To gain this hour's freedom Winifred had to practise some harmless duplicity, as shall be seen. She was obliged to rise long before the rest of her fellow-workers in the bookbinding factory of Messrs. Brown, Son & Brown, an establishment located in the least inviting part of Greenwich Village. But she went early to bed, and the beams of the morning sun drew her forth as a linnet from its nest.
Swifts, Senegal swallows, and common dark-bellied swallows appeared at Kizinga in the beginning of October: other birds, as drongo shrikes, a bird with a reddish bill, but otherwise like a grey linnet, keep in flocks yet. The kite came sooner than the swallows; I saw the first at Bangweolo on the 20th July, 1868. 1st November, 1868.
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