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Bright, bewitchingly pretty in her quaint costume, and excited as she very rarely was, she had completely fascinated him. "What a simpleton I must have been!" thought he, responding in thought to those sparkling eyes and that triumphant smile which had revealed to him a little dimple at the tip of her mustache that he had never observed before. "I am afraid of nothing," she declared.
This was the costume: silk stockings embroidered in gold, with the imperial coronet on the clocks; white velvet boots laced and embroidered with gold; white velvet breeches embroidered in gold on the seams; diamond buckles and buttons on his garters; his vest, also of white velvet, embroidered in gold with diamond buttons; a crimson velvet coat, with facings of white velvet, and embroidered on all the seams, the whole sparkling with gold and gems.
Then he took my hand and fared forth and carried me back to my house; and, when I awoke, I found the taste of the apple in my mouth and the other in my hand. So saying she brought out the apple, and in the darkness of the night it shone as it were a sparkling star.
Sidonie sat down as soon as she entered the room, pushing aside her long white skirt, which sank like a mass of snow at the foot of the divan; and with sparkling eyes and a smile playing about her lips, bending her little head slightly, its saucy coquettishness heightened by the bow of ribbon on the side, she waited. Frantz, pale as death, remained standing, looking about the room.
Soon she came upon the little pond that she had seen sparkling in the sunlight through the trees. It was a beautiful pond, and on it were several pretty little boats full of laughing children. As she watched them, Pollyanna felt more and more dissatisfied to remain by herself.
Ah, tough luck, Fensome, old son; it's tails. 'Then let's begin the thousand years with some tennis, cried Elise, whose eyes were sparkling, 'immediately after breakfast. 'Shall us? Let's, cried the talkative Maynard. 'So lay on, comrades the victuals are waiting and "damned be he that first cries, 'Hold, enough!"
There's a hot oven," replied the girl. "No, no," interposed Cap'n Ira firmly. "I want you should sit in here with us and hear all the elder's got to say." "Perhaps, Uncle Ira, he will want to talk to you and Aunt Prue privately." "There won't be no private talk about you, Ida May," snorted the captain, his keen eyes sparkling. "Not much!
They walked in silence, for Kenelm, after one or two vain attempts at conversation, had the tact to discover that his companion was in no mood for talk; and being himself one of those creatures whose minds glide easily into the dreamy monologue of revery, he was not displeased to muse on undisturbed, drinking quietly into his heart the subdued joy of the summer morn, with the freshness of its sparkling dews, the wayward carol of its earliest birds, the serene quietude of its limpid breezy air.
Faster she glided the breeze was increasing; now she rushed through the water; the officers looked over her sides and watched with satisfaction the foam which rose on either side and formed a long sparkling frothy line astern. "We shall do now, Morton," exclaimed the captain, in high glee. "Don't you hear the dollars chinking away in her hold?"
Whilst his wife was pulling up his rug, carefully wrapping it round his lifeless legs; he began to chat with sparkling eyes, once more basking in illusion. He had dreamt of Lourdes, said he, and had seen the Blessed Virgin leaning towards him with a smile of kindly promise.
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