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And yet, as Lydia Wright said, "How could a young lady die for a young gentleman with ashes all over his waistcoat?" However, when Alfred Price fell in love with Miss Letty Morris, he was not indifferent to his waistcoat, nor did he weigh two hundred pounds. He was slender and ruddy-cheeked, with tossing red-brown curls. At that time he attended the Seminary for Youths in Upper Chester.
It was every bit as good as the other, but it didn't sound so, and they couldn't see it; and there were faces sour as the product of the ship's baker when that evening all hands went down to dinner, and the silence maintained, or the ominously subdued tone of the talk, at the other tables, was in marked contrast with the hilarity that prevailed where sat the gray-haired, ruddy-cheeked old chief and the laughing coterie that listened to the fun that fell from the lips of Witchie Garrison.
Send him in. And then entered a man whose years seemed to be something short of fifty, a hale, ruddy-cheeked, stoutish man, whose dress and bearing made it probable that he was no Londoner. 'Mr. Starkey, M.A.? he inquired, rather nervously, though his smile and his upright posture did not lack a certain dignity.
All sprinkled with snow and ruddy-cheeked and mischievous-eyed, he grinned at her as he emptied his basket on the kitchen table. "Well," he bantered, "did you pray for my sins last night?" "You shouldn't make fun of things like that," she said rebukingly. Arthur chortled. "Gee, Missy, but you're sure a scream when you get pious!"
Peter Thorold was the first to alight. A boy of sixteen, fair-haired, blue-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, springing from the platform of the Pullman into his father's arms, he brought with him the atmosphere of high adventure.
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