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Lancaster had come down from the nursery, where shouts of childish merriment had told of her romps with the ringletted young brigand who ruled there, and was sitting quite silent in the deep arm-chair in an attitude of profound reflection, her head thrown back, her white arms resting languidly on the arms of the chair, her face unusually thoughtful, her eyes on the gilded ceiling. Mrs.
He cut wood, and brought water enough to last through the day, and then ate his frugal breakfast, and set off for school. He arrived there early almost too early, for none of the day pupils had come, and there was no one in the schoolroom but the young Middletons and Claudia Merlin. She was sitting in her seat, with her desk open before her, and her black ringletted head half buried in it.
"I don't know," replied Smith, with an air of puzzled wonderment, "but he has L7,000. a-year." "Has he, indeed?" cried Mrs. Dollimore, surprised into her natural tone of voice; and, at that moment, a young lady, ringletted and flowered like herself, joined her, and accosted her by the endearing appellation of "Mamma." "Have you been dancing, my love?" inquired Mrs. Dollimore.
Then she rose, and with her small transparent hands placed a wreath of blue anemones upon the ringletted white head of Venus. Half against my will I threw my arm around her body. "I can no longer live without you, oh wonderful woman," I said. "Believe me, believe only this once, that this time it is not a phrase, not a thing of dreams.
In his drawings of women, Mr. Thackeray very much confined himself to two types. There was the dark-eyed, brown-haired, bright-complexioned girl who was his favourite Laura, Betsinda, Amelia; and the blonde, ringletted, clever, and false girl Becky, Blanche, Angelica, who was the favourite of the reader.
Then the stage was filled with dainty, slim, ringletted ladies in high-waisted flowered frocks and gentlemen in tight breeches, long-tailed coats, and high stocks, and the curtains rolled back to disclose a prettier and statelier dance than a modern audience often sees. As the story progressed, Catherine as Elizabeth, and Eleanor as Mr. Collins, divided the honours pretty equally.
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