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It came mostly in the autumn, and a dark and solemn thing it was for man and beast; the animals grazing near home would bunch together and stand waiting. Bowing their heads what for? Waiting for the end? And man, what of man standing in the wilds with bowed head, waiting, when the thunder came? Waiting for what? The spring ay, with its haste and joy and madcap delight; but the autumn!
"The greatest difficulty," suggested the lawyer, "would be getting the consent of your parents to any such madcap scheme as going off into the woods to camp, day after day, in mid-winter." "There might be some difficulty about that, sir," replied Prescott.
The girl whirled away from him with a swish of silken skirts and fled past her mother, all her anger lost in wild panic. "Dolores! Whatever can " cried Mrs. Gantry. But Dolores had vanished. "Really, Genevieve, that madcap girl ! About yourself, my dear. Promise me now, if you cannot say 'yes, at least you'll not make it a final 'no." "But, Aunt Amice, unless I feel " "Promise me!
God bless you! God bless you! It has come very late in life, but may you be happy with her through all the ages of eternity!" Old Hurricane was deeply moved by the sympathy of his little madcap, and pressed her to his bosom, saying: "Cap, my dear, if you had not set your heart upon Herbert, I would marry you to my son Traverse, and you two should inherit all that I have in the world!
"And perhaps sooner than we think," said Ernest. "Perhaps they are in this island." Jack was running off immediately to search, but I called my little madcap back, till we arranged our plans. I advised that two of us should remain to watch the coast, while the other two penetrated into the interior.
Harold chuckled inwardly at the thought of classing Rosalie's particular little Jean Paul, in the category of grown-ups; anything more essentially boyish, and full to the brim of madcap pranks, than the eighteen-year-old Jean Paul, it would have been hard to picture. Mrs.
"It will hardly cause us much sorrow," Els admitted. "Yet the young countess brings much merriment into our quiet house. She is certainly a tireless madcap, and it will vex your proud sister Isabella to know that your brother-in-law Siebenburg is one of her admirers. Did she not go to the Town Hall?" "No," Wolff answered; "the twins have changed her wonderfully.
The daring light in her eyes, the witching play of her dimples, the madcap air intensified by her attitude and the excitement of the violent exercise just ended something compounded of all these and more affected the good priest strangely. Involuntarily he crossed himself, as if against a dangerous charm. "Mon Dieu, Father Beret," she exclaimed with impatience, "haven't you a grain of sense left?
Friedrich not only tolerates the poor madcap, but takes some pleasure in him: madcap we say, though poor La Mettrie had remarkable gifts, exuberant laughter one of them, and was far from intending to be mad. Not Zanyism, but Wisdom of the highest nature, was what he drove at, unluckily, with open mouth, and mind all in tumult.
He got up and laid her coat over her feet and then stood beside her, his soul in his eyes, watching. "Poor little madcap," he whispered; "mad little sad little madcap." He bent over her tenderly, with a longing to smooth away the tired lines at her eyes with caresses, to take her in his arms and soothe her with gentleness.
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