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It was just a round pink and white cherub like thousands of others in the world; the very long eyelashes, sweeping the sleep-flushed cheeks, and minute rings of bronze-gold hair curling over the edge of the close cambric cap; but it seemed to those two looking at it to be unique, and more beautiful than the dawn. "Isn't he perfect, Denzil!" whispered Amaryllis, in ecstasy.

When she awoke it was long after dark, and I had relieved Edward in his watch. "You will have to give it up," he said as our lily came forth at last with sleep-flushed cheeks and starry eyes shielded from the light. "The spell is broken: we have all been taking care of Felipa, and she likes one as well as the other."

He felt it himself, and what must it be for her? She was a woman. David had the old-fashioned gallant idea of woman. Clumsily he untied the gay blue ribbons and pulled the jaunty poke bonnet out of her way. The luxuriant hair, unused to the confinement of combs, fell rich about her sleep-flushed face.

Nevertheless, she slept soundly after her terrible excitement, and woke with a start of wonder in the early morning, to hear the men outside splashing water and humming or whistling bits of the tunes she had sung to them the night before. Mom Wallis was standing over her, looking down with a hunger in her eyes at the bright waves of Margaret's hair and the soft, sleep-flushed cheeks.

"I dare say it was," answered Gowan, regarding her sleep-flushed cheeks and exquisite eyes with the pleasure he always felt in any beauty, animate or inanimate. "May I sit here, Mollie?" and then he looked at her again and decided that he was quite right in speaking to her as he would have spoken to a child, because she was such a very child. "By me, on the sofa?" she answered. "Oh, yes."

"Well, what about my convenience, I'd like to know?" snapped the Senior Surgeon in some astonishment. Heavily the White Linen Nurse's lashes shadowed down again across her sleep-flushed cheeks. "Oh, never mind about that," she mumbled non-concernedly. "Oh, for Heaven's sake wake up there!" bellowed the Senior Surgeon above the sudden roar of his engine.