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Her complexion, unblemished, except for the sun-tinge which showed an out-of-doors life, was of that peculiar tint, neither blond nor brunette, which is usually found with hair of that coppery hue, and the whole artistic head but crowned a form whose grace and roundness not even her ill-fitting gown could conceal. "One of nature's gems!" whispered the on-looker in her native tongue.
She was an on-looker but an on-looker who stood, as it were, on the steps of the arena, who, by a single forward movement, could feel the sand under her feet, the breath of the battle on her face; and in this knowledge she rested satisfied. There were hours when Loder seemed scarcely conscious of her existence; but on those occasions she smiled in her serene way and went on waiting.
Now can you tell me why the people of Fremont celebrate the second of August?" "Sure, it is on account of " then a curious on-looker nudged the Professor in the ribs and began, as so many had done before, "Say, mister, it's none of my business "
This curious and unsyntactically expressed epithet alludes to the fact that she and six other "ladies" of like instincts meet daily for tea and scandal at the Gymkhana and, for three solid hours, pull to pieces the reputations of all and sundry their acquaintances, reminding the amused on-looker, by their voices, manner, and appearance, of those strange birds the Sat Bai or Seven Sisters, who in gangs of seven make day hideous in their neighbourhood ...
His own instinct tells him that there is a suggestion of the ridiculous to the mere on-looker about this interrupted honeymoon. He has determined to face it out in London, and resume his life on the old lines. He will finish his volume of French History, resume his post with Lord Wight, and take his seat in Parliament.
It may be observed further, without fear of rebuke, that the behaviour of the different kinds of birds during the prevalence of romantic love is not always equally above reproach. The courtship of English sparrows blustering, noisy, vulgar is a sight to offend the taste of every gentle on-looker.
How they'll all laugh when I tell them." Just as if it was the funniest thing in the world to have a Snake coiled up on one's body; when the horrid thing might bite one with its poisonous fangs, at any moment! Dot said she didn't see any joke, and it was no laughing matter. "To be sure you don't see the joke," said the jovial bird. "On-lookers always see the jokes, and I'm an on-looker.
Oh! how easy Hester would have found it to make him happy! not merely how easy, but what happiness it would have been to her to merge her every wish into the one great object of fulfiling his will. To her, an on-looker, the course of married life, which should lead to perfect happiness, seemed to plain!
Your patient face and neatly-dressed figure stands ever in the foreground of that checkered time; a figure showing naught to an on-looker but the common place virtues of an honest woman!
"An on-looker, who had observed the march of these different Armies," says Friedrich, "would have thought that they all belonged to one leader. The March passed without accident of moment; had not, from Lacy or Daun, any accident whatever. Nearly, but not completely; and caused a loss of five or six hours to that Second Column.
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