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THE children, as has been said, were all devoted to Malbone, and this was, in a certain degree, to his credit. But it is a mistake to call children good judges of character, except in one direction, namely, their own. They understand it, up to the level of their own stature; they know who loves them, but not who loves virtue.
Of course he had previously taken his turn for a while among Kate's admirers; but it was when she was very young, and, moreover, it was hard to get up anything like a tender and confidential relation with that frank maiden; she never would have accepted Philip Malbone for herself, and she was by no means satisfied with his betrothal to her best beloved.
I have seen an exquisite miniature of her by Malbone, taken in her early girlhood when about fifteen years old beautiful as an angel, with light chestnut hair and a soft blue eye, in the look of which is a touch of sadness, as if caused by some dim presentiment of her early death.
Dutchman, Frenchman, Portegee, or some kind of a foreigner." "Seems to understand himself in a boat," said another. "Mr. Malbone knows him," said a third. "The same that dove with the young woman under the steamboat paddles." "Good grit," said the first. "That's so," was the answer. "But grit don't teach a man the channel."
By equality, I do not understand anything more than equality before the law now, if the law had said that when the late Malbone Littlepage died, his farms should go not to his next of kin, or to his devisee, but to his neighbours, then that would have been the law to be obeyed, although it would be a law destructive of civilization, since men would never accumulate property to go to the public.
Philip Malbone has that kind of constancy, and so had his father before him." This was too much for Harry, who was making for the door in indignation, when little Ruth came in with Aunt Jane's luncheon, and that lady was soon absorbed in the hopeless task of keeping her handmaiden's pretty blue and white gingham sleeve out of the butter-plate.
"Flirt?" put in Hal, with growing displeasure. "Not now," said Phil, patting his shoulder, with imperturbable good-nature. "Our beloved has cured me of that. He who has won the pearl dives no more." "Do not let us speak of Hope," said Harry. "Everything that you have been asserting Hope's daily life disproves." "That may be," answered Malbone, heartily.
"As you say, it is impossible that Martha Littlepage should be anything but handsome; for fifteen is an age when, in America, one may safely predict the woman's appearance. Your sister is preparing for you an agreeable surprise. I have heard old persons say that she was very like my mother at the same time of life; and Dus Malbone was a sort of toast once in the forest."
The room was brilliant with light; the doors and windows were heavily draped. Fruit and flowers and wine were on the table. On the sofa lay Emilia in a gay ball-dress, sunk in one of her motionless trances, while Malbone, pale with terror, was deluging her brows with the water he had just brought from the well below. Hope stopped a moment and leaned against the door, as her eyes met Malbone's.
Positively, I think a man is more excusable for coveting his neighbor's wife in America than in Europe, because there is so little else to covet." "Malbone!" said Hal, "what has got into you? Do you know what things you are saying?" "Perfectly," was the unconcerned reply. "I am not arguing; I am only testifying. I know that in Paris, for instance, I myself have no temptations.
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