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At that moment an odd, almost uncanny resemblance to the old portrait of her great-great-grandfather, which hung on the parlour wall at home, came out on her girlish face. The fortnight passed by. Wesley was silent and sullen, never speaking to his wife when he could avoid it. Theodosia was as sweet and serene as ever.
I've put a corset steel o' Mother's in an' kind of tied 'em to it. I hope you don't see any corset steel." "No." Miss Theodosia looked not at the centerpiece of roses but at the cake, the tremulous jelly, the platter, anywhere else. "No, I don't see any, dear." "It's perfectly lovely, isn't it? Mercy gracious oh, mercy gracious! It'll dazzle Stefana. An' most every speck you did, Miss Theodosia.
"Theodosia Baxter, I'm disappointed! I thought you were a brave girl." As she stood in the moist darkness, a sound came to her too soft for a man-sound. It grew a very little more distinct. "Miss Theodosia sh! he's gettin' ready to go off. I want him to go off soon's I get him home I don't want to 'xcite him. I jus' came to tell you " "Evangeline! Have you got him there?" The softest of giggles.
Miss Theodosia and Evangeline smiled across at each other indulgently. "Elly Precious is havin' a good time. That's his good-time noise. Oh, I think he's a nice person, don't you?" "Nice? I love him!" cried Miss Theodosia warmly. Her face that was still the face of a girl was tenderly flushed. "I love every inch of him, Evangeline." "Merry gra that's a lot of lovin'! I guess you are ahead o' me!"
She moved about the kitchen briskly when had she launched out upon a night's work like this? Adventure! call it adventure. Work to Miss Theodosia had always meant something that other people did, the Stefanas and their mothers and brothers and fathers. What she herself did, a gentle, dilatory playing at work, hardly merited the name.
I went to get the photograph of you I always have on my dressing-table, to show it to Lady Theodosia, and I met quite a troop of tourists on the stairs, and all the place railed off with fat red cords, and everything being explained to them by a guide who has the appearance of a very haughty butler, and lives here just to do this, and look after the things.
"Do you suppose you'd dass to cut Elly Precious's hair, Miss Theodosia, while I danced like everything an' made faces? Dutchy, you know, in the back o' his neck he's straggly now. I'd make awful faces " "I wouldn't 'dass, dear," smiled Miss Theodosia. "I never could cut fast enough and you never could dance hard enough we'd hurt him." "Well, she'll look at the front o' him first never mind.
"Behold," said Burr to Madam Blennerhassett, in the ornate style he had learned to use when addressing her, "this is my Sheba, to whom I have not told the half of your bounty or the king's wisdom. She has not come to prove him with hard questions, but to repose under his almug trees. My daughter, Mrs. Alston." "She is no stranger to my thoughts," said the hostess, embracing and kissing Theodosia.
The first was the appeal to the Senate in Maslova's case; the second, to hand in Theodosia Birukoff's petition to the committee; the third, to comply with Vera Doukhova's requests i.e., try to get her friend Shoustova released from prison, and get permission for a mother to visit her son in prison.
Their raids in Russian and Polish territory ensured, among other advantages, a regular and plentiful supply of slaves, which formed the chief article of export from Kaffa the modern Theodosia and from the other seaports of the coast.
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