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“Blame that little pink-cheeked, baby-eyed fool!” he said at last, turning on his heel with a sigh. “I might have known she was too goody-goody. Such people ought to die young before they grow up to make fools of other people. Bah! Think of a wife like that with no spirit of her own. A baby! Merely a baby!”
Alexandra nodded. "Always. I don't see many people, but I don't believe there are many like her, anywhere." Marie came back with a branch she had broken from an apricot tree, laden with pale yellow, pink-cheeked fruit. She dropped it beside Carl. "Did you plant those, too? They are such beautiful little trees."
Artists came to Leyden to make pictures of her and no fewer than nine noblemen copied her pretty form and features into their coats of arms. Instead of the Mermaid's Pool is now a cheese farm of fifty cows, a fine house and barn, and a family of pink-cheeked, yellow-haired children who walk and play in wooden shoes.
Margaret could not help but see her in the clever pantomime the boy carried on. Next was Rosa Rogers, daughter of a wealthy cattleman, the pink-cheeked, blue-eyed beauty of the school, with all the boys at her feet and a perfect knowledge of her power over them.
Jenkins, at your house the other evening, I amused myself counting all those adventurers of high " The little old lady, pink-cheeked and powdered, said to her softly from her seat: "Felicia take care " But she went on without listening to her: "Who is this Monpavon, Doctor? And Bois-l'Héry? And Mora himself? And " She was on the point of saying, "And the Nabob?" but checked herself.
But he merely said "I see I see," very slowly, and his eyes were kindly. He couldn't be angry with her, somehow; that pink-cheeked, crinkly haired girl stood between them and shielded her. He was only very, very sorry. "And Kennaston?" he asked, after a little. Mrs. Saumarez flushed. "Mr. Kennaston is a man of great genius," she said, quickly.
She says that a steady diet of such literary fare would give her blue indigestion. Also she objects on the ground that no one got married that is, the heroine didn't. And she says that a heroine who does not get married isn't a heroine at all. She thinks she prefers the pink-cheeked, goddess kind, in the end. By CLARENCE URMY
Alexander grim but oddly peaceful of expression. Brainard pink-cheeked and emotionless. Kennon and Copper happily conscious that it was at last finished. It was an oddly assorted group of conspirators who planned to restore a segment of humanity to the human race. Kennon signed last, and as he did, Alexander looked at him with a sly grin distorting the smooth pallor of his face.
She worked industriously on her white one, but her mother found so many things for her to do. Then Martha Grant came a stout, hearty, pink-cheeked country girl who knew how to "take hold," and was glad of an opportunity to earn something toward a wedding gown. Doris was so interested that she hardly remembered how much she should miss Betty, though Warren promised to help her with her lessons.
She had noticed that the pretty girl was always the center of a group and she had also noted that one small, black-haired girl with an elfish face, who wore the most exquisite clothes invariably walked at the tall girl's side. There was a pink-cheeked girl, too, with laughing blue eyes and dimples, and a fair-haired, serious-faced girl, who reminded Marjorie of Alice Duval.
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