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Crewne was a very odd boy, they said excellent company, the best of good fellows, the staunchest of friends, and the very soul of honor; but there were some things about him they never could understand. In fact, he was something like that sum of all impossibilities, a schoolgirl's hero. "But, Harry," said the prospective Mrs.
The embrace disarranged his glasses and flushed his face like a schoolgirl's, but his eyes were full of embarrassed delight. "There, there," he said, "we'll take care of him !" Then suddenly he paused, for the real significance of her action dawned upon him. "Dear me," he said in disturbed meditation; "dear me!" She suddenly opened the bedroom door and went in, followed by Nic.
After this there came all the bustle of packing and preparation for departure, and a kind of saturnalia prevailed at Hyde Lodge a saturnalia which terminated with the breaking-up ball: and who among the crowd of fair young dancers so bright as Charlotte Halliday, dressed in the schoolgirl's festal robes of cloud-like muslin, and with her white throat set off by a black ribbon and a gold locket?
"Well," said Leonora, simply, with a smile, "he was my first love a calf-and-puppy love, a schoolgirl's infatuation which nobody ever knew about"; for though the Doctor's daughter spent hours with her green golden eyes fixed upon the poet, the latter never suspected his good fortune; doubtless because the beauty of his patroness, the superannuated diva, had so obsessed him that the attractions of other women left him quite unmoved.
She might have been described as cold and a little repressive, but the truth was that she was as yet untouched by the fires of passion, and for all her twenty-one years she was still something of the healthy schoolgirl, with a schoolgirl's impatience of sentiment. "I am the last to spin a hard-luck yarn," Frank went on, "but I have not had the best of everything, dear. I started wrong with uncle.
The Form Mistress may be a wise counsellor and a constant friend, but the Form President is often as Nancy was later on kept from seeking advice by the schoolgirl's horror of "telling tales." By six o'clock everything was ready for the skating party, and Five A went in to supper with a good appetite and the happy consciousness that they were going to have a good time.
He explained rather haltingly his preferences in prose. Mr. Heritage listened with wrinkled brows. "You're even deeper in the mud than I thought," he remarked. "You live in a world of painted laths and shadows. All this passion for the picturesque! Trash, my dear man, like a schoolgirl's novelette heroes.
It contained a few words in a schoolgirl's hand, hastily scrawled in pencil: "Come to the south wall near the big pear-tree at six." Delighted as Clarence felt, he was at the same time embarrassed. He could not understand the necessity of this mysterious rendezvous.
It was book of "bits:" masses of foliage, bramble, and bird's-nest; here the head of an animal, there the profile of a friend; anon a bit of still life; a vase of flowers, with the arabesqued drapery of a curtain for a background; everywhere the evidence of artistic feeling and a practised hand, everywhere a something much above a schoolgirl's art.
Percy, in the transition from boyhood to manhood, has changed very little. He is of medium height, and his handsome fair face still flushes like a schoolgirl's, to his great annoyance. Ben, at nineteen, is six feet tall. His face has developed since we knew him some years ago.
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