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Then the child doubled round a dung-heap and fled to his father's arms. From the byre a cow with a full udder softly lowed, and now small Will had a cup of warm milk; then, with his red mouth like a rosebud in mist and his father's smile magically and laughably reproduced upon his little face, he trotted back to his mother.
In all them brown faces and tanned leathery white ones you can imagine what a pink rosebud she seemed to be; and it wasn't like that she stopped at that, for she could sing like a nightingale and talk to beat the band; and her laugh itself was like music, sounding long afterwards in your ears at sea. Hit? Jimini Christmas, I should say I was hit!
The white cloth seemed to Ida the whitest she had ever seen, the silver and glass glittered, the china was covered with a rosebud pattern, and a reading-lamp threw a clear soft light over all. The tea, the cream, the brown bread and butter, the fresh eggs, and the honey all were of the very best even the waiting-maid was pretty, and had something of the old lady's smile.
"There is just a little needlework around the neck and the skirt to sew on." "But I wouldn't wear it," rejoined her mother. "You may get a fruit stain on it, or meet with some accident. Miss Recompense will expect you to work a little." "Have you anything new, Doris?" "Oh, yes," replied Doris. "A white India muslin, and a cambric with a tiny rosebud in it.
"Indeed, you're not going to have it not this one! I'll buy you another, but this is mine. Wasn't I holding it in my hand and thinking of you when I saw you coming over the meadows?" "Keep it and I'll keep something I have of yours." "Of mine? Where did you get anything of mine? Surely it isn't the peppered rosebud?" "Oh, no. I've had it nearly seven years." "Seven years!"
"Maybe," he went on, a moment later, "ther' ain't no need to spend them twenty dollars. I've got some. Say, you talk to Ma an' fix the letter an' I'll mail it." The girl looked up. Seth's kindness had banished the ready laugh for the moment. If her tongue remained silent her eyes spoke. But Seth was concerned with his food and saw nothing. Rosebud did not even tender thanks.
"Come, come," said he, "you look as if you had walked far; come, take a bowl of milk. And the white-handed angel did meekly obey, and handed me me, the vagabond, a bowl of bubbling milk, which I could hardly drink down, for gazing at the dew on her lips. As I live, I could have married that charmer on the spot! She was by far the most beautiful rosebud I had yet seen in England.
This one was a little fairer than the first, having one of those beautiful English complexions of mingled rose and snow, and a dash of gold-dust in her hair where the sun touched it. Her eyes, however, were dark hazel and full of fire, shaded and intensified by their long, sweeping lashes. Her mouth was a rosebud, and her chin and throat faultless in the delicious curve of their lines.
Little Rosebud that's what everybody called her had a stepsister Maud. They was both beauties, only Maud didn't have a lovely disposition like Little Rosebud. A Harvard gradjate by the name of Percy Fielding got stuck on Little Rosebud for the wealth she was to get from her pa, and she was terrible stuck on him. She was stuck on him for fair, though not knowing he was a villain of the deepest dye.
"And it is mine to help you," said Mark, an impulse of youthful enthusiasm and sympathy swelling his heart as his mind suddenly reverted to the morning when he left England, and said his last good-bye to the fair one with the golden hair and the rosebud mouth and "such lovely blue eyes!" "But how," he continued, "shall we best aid you in this matter?" "That question I cannot answer immediately.
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