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His slim, long-fingered hands reminded her of a bird's claws. The up-rolled sleeves of a blue flannel shirt disclosed forearms well-enough sinewed, but instead of being browned to the hue of a saddle-skirt, they were white underneath and pinkly red above. Moreover, they were scaling in the fashion of a skin not inured to weather beating.
He had been picked for the part because of this face plump, pinkly tinted cheeks, lustrous, curling hair of some repellent composition, eyes with a hard glitter, each lash distinct in blue-black lines, and a small, tip-curled black mustache that lent the whole an offensive smirk.
Having finished shaving, he opened the drawer in the bureau where lay his white flannel trousers. Here at last was a day worthy of them. He drew them out, and as he did so, something gleamed pinkly up at him from a corner of the drawer. His salmon-coloured bathing-suit. Mr. Bennett started. He had not contemplated such a thing, but, after all, why not?
The milky-fleshed, not highly sensitized, pinkly clean creature of an innocence born mostly of ignorance and slow perceptions, who that morning had risen sweet from eleven hours of unrestless sleep beside a mother whose bed she had never missed to share, suddenly here in slatternliness!
He'll be late for school, if he doesn't hurry." "That's so," she said, and reflected how often one used that phrase in response to one of Paul's solid and unanswerable statements. Mark appeared just then and she began to laugh helplessly. His hands were wetly, pinkly, unnaturally clean, but his round, rosy, sunny little face was appallingly streaked and black. Paul did not laugh.
She glowed pinkly at the thought. "When I sit up on the bleachers and see you make a touchdown and hear 'em yell why I'm there! I'm on the team because I've helped a little to keep you on the team! It almost makes up for having to be a girl.
It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them." Then, almost before anybody realized it, spring had come; out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered; and the "mist of green" was on the woods and in the valleys. But in Charlottetown harassed Queen's students thought and talked only of examinations.
A round four-pound-loaf of black bread waiting to be torn, and to-night, on the festive mat of cotton lace, a cake of pinkly gleaming icing, encircled with five pink little twisted candles.
When Theresa approached with her jerky consequential little walk pinkly self-conscious behind her gold-rimmed glasses he glanced at her, revealing a fiercely careworn countenance, but made no movement to shake hands with or otherwise greet her.
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