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How beautiful and quiet it looked everything seemed smiling around. A gentleman, whom we at once guessed was Mr Newton, appeared at the garden-gate, and cordially invited us into his house. Before entering, we were joined by his wife, a sweet-looking young woman.
"I feel as if I'd been here for ever." "I am delighted to see you," said Molly. She kissed her friend rapturously. Maggie presented a cool, firm, round cheek. "Oh, how sweet you look, Mags!" "Don't talk nonsense, Molly; I'm not a bit sweet-looking." "To me," said Molly with fervor, "You're the loveliest girl in all the wide world."
She felt very much as Cinderella must have done when she got back to the kitchen from the Prince's ball. Her mother, who had seen the car drive away, met her in the narrow hall; she was a sweet-looking woman with tired eyes and a perpetual cough. "Well, little girl?" she said, and there was a world of anxiety in her voice.
She was walking across the grass with Florence, the tallest and prettiest of the sisters, and, indeed, she was rather a sweet-looking girl. "Is it not a lovely day?" observed Bessie. "Awfully jolly," replied Miss Florence, in a sharp, clipping voice; and the next minute Bessie heard her call one of her sisters a duffer for missing the ball. "What would mother say?" thought Bessie.
They suffer chiefly from "forest fever" in the forest lands, but the rice swamps, deadly to Europeans, do not harm them. I rested for some time at a very beautiful convent, and was most kindly entertained by some very calm, sweet-looking sisters, who labor piously among the female Anamese, and have schools for girls.
She appeared like one who, having discovered the full extent of her misery, had proudly steeled her heart to bear it. Near her, with her head bent down, and shaded by her thin, slender hand, her slight figure scarcely covered by her scanty clothing, sat her eldest daughter, a gentle, sweet-looking girl, who held in her arms a baby brother, whose destitution she endeavoured to conceal.
And, as if aware that someone was standing there, Daisy turned her bright face up towards the window and smiled at her stepmother, and at the lodger, whose face she could only dimly discern. "A very sweet-looking young girl," said Mr. Sleuth thoughtfully. And then he quoted a little bit of poetry, and this took Mrs. Bunting very much aback. "Wordsworth," he murmured dreamily.
And then he returned to his conversation with Maggie. That had been real comfort to him. What an advantage it would be to Erminia to have such a girl for a friend and companion! "How lovely Maggie is growing! Why, I had no idea she would ever turn out pretty. Sweet-looking she always was; but now her style of beauty makes her positively distinguished. Frank! speak! is not she beautiful?"
But all that Marian saw was an affectation in that twisted position, a straining round of the eyes, and a kind of determination at archness of expression in the mouth. Where was the merry, artless, sweet-looking Selina she remembered, whose yet unformed though very pretty features had faded from her memory, and left only the lively, good-natured expression which, here she sought in vain?
As she paused at a certain door a sweet-looking girl with a white face, dressed in the garb of a Sister, came out. "Ah, Elizabeth, I am glad you have arrived," she said. "I have just left your mother; she has been crying for you, and and she is very ill indeed." "Oh, I know that, Sister Mary; let me go upstairs now."
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