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"Janet," said Alice's new protector to a comely and pleasant-eyed woman, "this is the young person you will show her and the infant every attention. I shall send down proper clothing for her to-morrow, and I shall then have thought what will be best for her future welfare."
On the way to the cemetery, Joe and Ariel were together in a carriage with Buckalew and the minister who had read the service, a dark, pleasant-eyed young man; and the Squire, after being almost overcome during the ceremony, experienced a natural reaction, talking cheerfully throughout the long drive.
Not that I am cowardly; but you must understand. You will won't you?.... But what is the use of my asking you, as I shall never see you again. Her pencil faltered; she looked into space, and the image of Beekman Brown, pleasant-eyed, attractive, floated unbidden out of vacancy and looked at her.
Even if his cousin Janet lived in the south, with all these fine flowers and hot-house fruits to serve her purpose, she could not have done better. He began to like this pleasant-eyed woman, though she seemed delicate, and a trifle languid, and in consequence he sometimes could not quite make out what she said.
There was something about the tall, curly-headed, pleasant-eyed young man which won his boyish heart at once. "Glad to see you, sir," uncle Frank said in his loud, merry voice; then he gave Willy's little slim hand a big shake, as if it were a man's. He was further prepossessed in his favor when, after tea, he begged to take him over to the store and show him around before he went to bed.
Not for nothing is our Karl called Prince Jehu Miller's Son, for indeed he rides most furiously." Before there was time for more words between us a tall, grim-faced, pleasant-eyed man of fifty rode up at a furious gallop.
"Janet," said Alice's new protector to a comely and pleasant-eyed woman, "this is the young person you will show her and the infant every attention. I shall send down proper clothing for her to-morrow, and I shall then have thought what will be best for her future welfare."
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