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As for Peterkin, being naturally a neat-handed boy, he soon handled his spear well, and could run full tilt at a cocoa-nut, and hit it with great precision once out of every five times.
Campion's eye ever since her parents' death, which had occurred when she was fifteen years of age. Emily, or Milly Harrington, as she was generally called, was a quick, clever girl, very neat-handed and fairly industrious; and it seemed to Lettice, when she decided upon going to London, that she could not do better than ask Milly to go too.
"I can't think how people can be so different; but, oh! here he comes. Ritchie, you should not come upon us before we are aware." "What? I should have heard no good of myself?" "Great good," said Margaret "she was telling me you would make a neat-handed woman of her in time." "I don't see why she should not be as neat as other people," said Richard gravely. "Has she been telling you our plan?"
William Guppy, as lovers will, abandoned himself to blissful dreams of the possible home that should grow out of his lofty passion, it was another vision that he saw; it was the high-born Helen coming down to breakfast in a sweet morning-cap, a neat-handed Phillis. For love, which soars and sings, also builds its nest. The one instinct is as deep and sure as the other.
I began to fall in love faintly with girls I passed in the street, with women who sat before me in trains, with girl fellow-students, with ladies in passing carriages, with loiterers at the corners, with neat-handed waitresses in shops and tea-rooms, with pictures even of girls and women.
Rosine liked a bribe, so she did her best, smoothed and plaited my hair as well as a coiffeur would have done, placed the lace collar mathematically straight, tied the neck-ribbon accurately in short, did her work like the neat-handed Phillis she could be when she those. Having given me my handkerchief and gloves, she took the candle and lighted me down-stairs.
Dumb dogs which bark not how shall they compel The loitering vagrants to the Master's fold? Fitter to bask before the blazing fire, And snuff the mess neat-handed Phillis dresses, Than on the snow-wreath battle with the wolf. The health of the Lady of Avenel had been gradually decaying ever since her disaster.
A narrow stone terrace ran along the garden front, over which was stretched an awning, and on the terrace a young silent-footed man-servant was busied with the laying of the table for dinner. He was neat-handed and quick with his job, and having finished it he went back into the house, and reappeared again with a large rough bath-towel on his arm. With this he went to the hammock in the pergola.
Neat-handed Phillis at the door received the chowder, and by its aid excited a sound and a smell, both prophetic of supper. Next morning it poured. The cinders before the blacksmith's shop opposite had yielded their black dye to the dismal puddles. The village cocks were sadly draggled and discouraged, and cowered under any shelter, shivering within their drowned plumage.
She was a woman without spirit; she had sold away her son. From this dingy court he made his way round to Covent Garden market, and he went into a florist's shop there. "I want a bouquet," said he to the neat-handed maiden who looked up at him. "Yes, sir," said she; "will you look at those in the window?" "But I want one," said he, "with a single rose a red rose in the centre."
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