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These women saw in Chow-sin's latest wife the most beautiful woman who had ever lived in the royal harem. One would think that this beauty might have caused them to hate Fox Sprite, but such was not the case.
Of course, Miss Gilder's rather important, and I believe her father's obsession used to be when she was a child, that she'd be kidnapped for ransom. The 'little sprite of a woman' you admire so much, knew the Gilders in those days.
On the way home he talked seriously to the sprite and told him how impolite he had been, and arranged a plan for his schooling in botany, diplomacy, music, psychology, deportment, and other useful studies. The rest of the sprites came in to the school-room every day, to get some of the profitable lessons. The sat around quiet and orderly, so that it was quite like a kindergarten.
Opening a door to the right the bonde stood courteously aside and bade them enter, and they found themselves in the very apartment where they had seen the maiden spinning. "Sit down, sit down!" said their host hospitably. "We will have wine directly, and Thelma shall come hither. Thelma! Thelma! Where is the child? She wanders hither and thither like a mountain sprite.
Where every palace, as another Eden, * Carpets and cushions richly wrought displays; A city wooing sight and sprite to glee, * Where Saint meets Sinner and each 'joys his craze; Where friend meets friend, by Providence united * In greeny garden and in palmy maze: People of Cairo, and by Allah's doom * I fare, with you in thoughts I wone always!
"I mean that I was led into it quite against my will, madam by a tricksy, wilful sprite, who would have her own way " "Say that you have not repented it, Rupert," she whispers, looking up at him with the fond, sorrowful eyes that he cannot see.
It seemed to her while she was waiting for the carriage he had ordered that she was already half a wife. She was not conscious of a blush. The sprite in the young woman's mind whispered of fire not burning when one is in the heart of it. And undoubtedly, contemplated from the outside, this room was the heart of fire.
'And most ungratefully she won't confess it, said Arthur. 'I despise coaxing, said Theodora. 'The question is, what you would have done without it, said John. 'As if I could not subdue a little sprite like that! 'You certainly might if it was a question of physical force, said Percy, as he seemed to be measuring with his eye the strength of Theodora's tall vigorous person.
He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. "Halt, dwarf!" said I. "Either I or thou! I, however, am the stronger of the two: thou knowest not mine abysmal thought! IT couldst thou not endure!" Then happened that which made me lighter: for the dwarf sprang from my shoulder, the prying sprite! And it squatted on a stone in front of me. There was however a gateway just where we halted.
Proof of Ned's assertion was not wanting, for that instant the canoes rustled through the protruding grass of a submerged island. The water Sprite stuck fast on what was probably the crest, and the Pioneer instantly swung around with the current, shaking off the folds of the tent. Randy turned sideways to see how his companion was faring, and his face suddenly blanched. "Look! look!
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