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She can scud, too, like a deer when we play 'Follow the leader, and skip stones and bat balls almost as well as I can," said Mac, in reply to his uncle's praise of his pupil. "I'm afraid you will think her a sad tomboy, Alec; but really she seems so well and happy, I have not the heart to check her.
She then brushed her hair and made her wash her hands, which this wild tomboy strongly objected to. But Rosamund was firm. "I hope you're not always going to be like this," said Irene, stamping her foot. "Oh, dear, no! because soon you will do it for its own sake. Now, here's a long mirror; come and see yourself in the glass. Can't you fancy what you are like?" But Irene started away.
"Because because she was bad and had to stay after school," Pepsy said. "That shows how much you know about logic," Pee-wee said, "because I had to stay too and I was worse than she was. So there." "I wouldn't be afraid to get in a boat," Pepsy said proudly. "I never said she was like you," Pee-wee declared. "She's not a tomboy." Pepsy seemed comforted.
"Why, what's the matter with her?" inquired Fred. "She's too much of a tomboy." "What's that?" inquired Grant, winking at the other boys as he spoke. "Why, she does most of the things that the boys do. She plays tennis, shoots a rifle, paddles a canoe and manages the Stevens family." "And that is why you call her a tomboy?" inquired Fred. "Yes, sir, it is," said the old gentleman solemnly.
Indeed, when Head-nurse was not by, she was a regular tomboy; and after a whole morning spent in most lady-like fashion either playing with her dolls, or stringing beads, while Down, the cat, on her lap blinked and purred and stared out on the world with her big blue eyes and her little white feet tucked well inside, she would, when the women retired to get ready the mid-day meal, spring up like a squirrel, scattering beads and cats as if they were of no account!
Margaret, meantime, was hurrying toward the towing-path, while Richard, in a direction at right angles to hers, was pelting toward that spot terrible to him the elm. At the moment when he entered the deep darkness of the beeches, he heard what sounded like a pistol-shot, rain now falling drop by drop, and through the forest with an uplifting whoop, like batsmen, swooped the tomboy winds.
Hammond had chosen, I might have taken the subject into my consideration. Mary flamed crimson. 'Mr. Hammond never gave me a thought, she said, 'unless it was to think me contemptible. He is worlds too good for such a Tomboy. Maulevrier told him about the fox-hunt, and they both laughed at me at least I have no doubt Mr. Hammond laughed, though I was too much ashamed to look at him.
The mind is a strange thing, not to be controlled, full of vagaries, and now, for no reason whatever, as it seems to him, it has run back to his wedding morning. Is this the careless, idle, little tomboy who had stood before the altar the little girl he had assured himself he could mould to his will? "You forget," says he coldly, "that you are married to me.
She had been an undisciplined girl, called a tomboy in those days, whose farmer forbears had given to her a pagan passion for the soil and the open sky.
Those of my readers who have read "A World of Girls" will know all about the early story of Annie Forest; but, to those who have not, I may as well explain that she was a motherless girl, that she had been in her day a sad tomboy, that she had a father living, but that it was absolutely necessary for her before long to earn her own living.
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