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Bopp glanced nervously over his shoulder at the staring rows, more appalling in their stillness than if they had risen up and hooted at him, then piling up the bags for the seventh time, he gave himself a mental shake, and, with a crimson visage, was about to launch his first "Ladees und gentlemen," when the door opened, and a small, merry-faced figure appeared, looking quite at ease in the novel dress, as, with a comprehensive nod, it marched straight across the hall to its place among the weaker vessels.
They raised their eyes when the old man and his young companion were close upon them, and pausing in their work, returned their looks of curiosity. One of them, the actual exhibitor no doubt, was a little merry-faced man with a twinkling eye and a red nose, who seemed to have unconsciously imbibed something of his hero's character.
For a moment the merry-faced girl stared in frank amazement at her mother; then she laughed gleefully. "On the table? In the room?" she retorted. "Well, it's the dearest room ever, and looks so good to me! As for the table the rolls are feathers, the coffee is nectar, and the strawberries well, the strawberries are just strawberries they couldn't be nicer." "Oh, Alma, but I didn't mean "
They had three children: little Ellen had grown to a lively, rosy-cheeked, merry-faced girl of eleven years; and George, who had followed Ellen, was in his seventh year, and after him came the baby, now just completing the twelfth month of its innocent, happy life. It was in the season when the farmers' toil is rewarded, and William Moreland was among those whose labor had met an ample return.
What a pity so many of us have an early impress of religion as of vinegar aspect and harsh duty hard as flint and unhuman as a block of wood. This Mother Superior is merry-faced and red-blooded and human and dear.
'The subject is a very painful one to my feelings, sir, replied the lady with strong emotion; 'and I beg you as a gentleman, not to refer to it. 'Dear me, said the merry-faced gentleman, looking merrier still, 'I merely intended to inquire 'I hope no inquiries will be made, said the lady, 'or I shall be compelled to throw myself on the protection of the other gentlemen.
I have but one pony for the two, and they were to ride "turn about"; but Chuar'ruumpeak, the chief, rides, and Shuts, the one-eyed, barelegged, merry-faced pigmy, walks, and points the way with a slender cane; then leaps and bounds by the shortest way, and sits down on a rock and waits demurely until we come, always meeting us with a jest, his face a rich mine of sunny smiles.
Whilst I ate, Lopez played upon the guitar, singing occasionally snatches of Andalusian songs. He was a short, merry-faced, active fellow, whom I had frequently seen at Madrid, and was a good specimen of the Spanish labrador or yeoman. Though far from possessing the ability and intellect of his wife, Maria Diaz, he was by no means deficient in shrewdness and understanding.
He was fond of admiring himself in a looking glass; and a merry-faced little Indian boy from the Rio Negro, whom we had for some months on board, soon perceived this, and used to mock him: Jemmy, who was always rather jealous of the attention paid to this little boy, did not at all like this, and used to say, with rather a contemptuous twist of his head, "Too much skylark."
'I hope you suffer no inconvenience from the overturn, ma'am? said the merry-faced gentleman, addressing the fastidious lady, as though he were charitably desirous to change the subject. 'No bodily inconvenience, replied the lady. 'No mental inconvenience, I hope?
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