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If she's a bit like that sweet-looking Mrs. Charles I know we'll get along. I'm surprised, William, you've never told me what pleasant ladies live here. It must make all the difference in the world. Don't you think it would do for me not to be formal, but just to go to Mrs. Major Rogers' hotel to-morrow and call?"
She was a sallow, unhealthy, sweet-looking young woman, with a careworn look; her dress was humble and very simple, consisting of some kind of dark stuff gown, her neck being covered by a drab shawl or large handkerchief, pinned down behind and at the sides in front.
"A sweet-looking old lady passed the house this afternoon," said Cordelia, "and took notice of baby asleep in my arms on the porch. She stopped and asked me all about her and presently she kissed her, and then I saw that she was crying softly to herself. I asked her if she had ever lost a little girl, and she said no. 'I have always been childless, said the sweet old lady.
A day or two, perhaps a week or two, among the fells, with their winds and scents about him, and their streams in his ears he must allow himself that, before the fight began. No. 8. A dim light showed in the upper window. The Rector knocked at the door. A woman opened a young and sweet-looking nurse in her bonnet and long cloak. "You look pretty done!" exclaimed the Rector.
"And those whose names end with 'sen," said she, "can never be anything at all. We must put our arms akimbo, and make the elbow quite pointed, so as to keep these 'sen' people at a great distance." And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows quite pointed, to show how it was to be done; and her little arms were very pretty, for she was a sweet-looking child.
Then he saw that the leaders of the procession were followed by others who carried a couch of mother-o'-pearl resting on their shoulders, that on the couch reposed a pale sweet-looking youth dressed in silk clothes of a delicate rose-colour. He also wore crimson shoes, and a tight-fitting apple-green skull cap, which made his head look very small.
So I replied: "Why, why, of course I don't! Indeed you are the most respectable and the most sweet-looking woman in the world!" I stepped up close to ner and reached out my hand to seize hold of her bare arm "None of that, mister!" she flared up, drawing back. "Keep your hands where they belong. If you try that again I'll break every bone in your body. May both my hands be paralyzed if I don't!"
Did you ever see a greater contrast than that between her and our evening guests?" "Esther and Eleanor? They have grown up into very sweet-looking girls." "Not that there can be any comparison between them. Essie has none of the ponderous Highness in her -only the Serenity." "Yes, there is a very pleasant air of innocent candour about their faces " "Just what it does a man good to look at.
Muriel came down-stairs triumphantly in her father's arms, and lay on the sofa smiling; the firelight dancing on her small white face white and unscarred. The disease had been kind to the blind child; she was, I think, more sweet-looking than ever.
'Oh, mim, said Miggs, returning with the candle. 'Oh gracious me, mim, there's a gentleman! Was there ever such an angel to talk as he is and such a sweet-looking man! So upright and noble, that he seems to despise the very ground he walks on; and yet so mild and condescending, that he seems to say "but I will take notice on it too."
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