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In this manner, from a happy yet often pensive child, he grew up to be a mild, quiet, unobtrusive boy, and sun-browned with labor in the fields, but with more intelligence brightening his aspect than is seen in many lads who have been taught at famous schools. Yet Ernest had had no teacher, save only that the Great Stone Face became one to him.
"I think it helps somehow." Her pretty, narrow hand held the pencil; his sun-browned hand closed over it. She looked at the pad on her knees. After a while she said: "I think, perhaps, we had better draw. Don't you?" They made a few hen-tracks. Noticing his shoulder was just touching hers, and feeling a trifle weary on her camp-stool, she leaned back a little.
As a rule, I do go about equipped with ropes and hooks and things to rescue trespassing hydroaviators, but " she regarded him thoughtfully. "Do you like to float about and smoke?" The sun-browned skin of the young aviator reddened a trifle, but his eyes laughed. "I'm an incurable optimist," he lightly countered, "or I wouldn't have tried to fly over a private lake in a borrowed aeroplane."
The fellow's appearance was anything but reassuring: he was swarthy and sun-browned, his clothes were ragged, his overalls were patched; instead of a coat, he wore a loosely flapping vest over a black sateen shirt, long since rusted out to a nondescript brown. "I've been trying to get to you for a week," announced the mysterious visitor hoarsely. "W-what do you want? Who are you?"
From the rocks boys were bathing. Their shouts travelled to the road where the fishermen were talking with intensity, as they leaned against the wall hot with the splendid sun. Hermione looked for Ruffo's face among all these sun-browned faces, for his bright eyes among all the sparkling eyes of these children of the sea. But she could not see him. She walked along the wall slowly.
Harry went down with his craft, but in a few seconds came up again, his mouth and eyes full of muddy water. He was a splendid swimmer, and his eyes clearing in a moment he looked toward the northern shore, seeking an easy place for landing. They encountered ten feet away a large sun-browned face and two burning eyes. "Shepard!" Harry gasped. "And so it was you, Lieutenant Kenton.
How long they stood hand in hand, looking at each other with happy smiles! Maurice is more attractive and gracious than ever. His beauty is more manly, and his golden moustache glistens against his sun-browned skin. What a fine fellow! How he rejoiced at his friend's first success! "I am certain that your book will turn everybody's head. I always told you that you were a genuine poet.
They were sun-browned, eager fellows, every one carrying a rifle, and all sharpshooters. It seemed to Harry that the skirmishers were through the wood in an instant, like a force of Indians bursting from ambush upon an unsuspecting foe. The Northern pickets were driven in like leaves before a whirlwind.
Baby Bess, taciturn, sun-browned autocrat, nodded silent corroboration. "Come, then," and, willing horse, the big man got clumsily to all fours and, prancing ponderously, drew up at her side.
The sun-browned rugged plebeian, whose mind, by the influence of an unexampled political change, has been long alienated from all the noble feelings which religion and humanity inspire, is here seen, with his arms rudely folded over his breast, softening into pity, before the struggling and sinking sufferers of a deluged world, or silently imbibing from the divine resigned countenance of the crucified Saviour, a hope of unperishable bliss, beyond the grave.
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