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Indeed, his dissipations had been whimsical rather than banal; and retrospection never aroused a furtive sense of shame. He was young, but not so young as an idle glance might conjecture in passing. To such casual reckoning he appeared to be in the early twenties; but scrutiny, more or less infallible, noting a line here or an angle there, was disposed to add ten years to the score.
The mother had no English, so smiled expansively, her bony arms folded across her stomach. Her oldest daughter, a frail-looking girl in the twenties, but with a sad and spiritual beauty of the Madonna in her big eyes and straight black hair, gave us a shy good-day.
In his wake comes another, then twos and threes, anon tens and twenties, till hundreds have collected, and the ground is covered with the hissing, tearing, fiercely clawing crowd. It is a horrible sight to see a heap of vultures battling over a dead bullock.
James Ford in his Cooperation in New England, Urban and Rural, describes two survivals from this period, the Central Union Association of New Bedford, Massachusetts, founded in 1848, and the Acushnet Cooperative Association, also of New Bedford, which began business in 1849. But the most characteristic labor movement of the forties was a resurgence of the old Agrarianism of the twenties.
He leaned forward to join in the conversation which had started between Lady Underhill and some friends she had discovered in the seats in front; and Jill, turning, became aware that the man on her right was looking at her intently. He was a big man with rough, wiry hair and a humorous mouth. His age appeared to be somewhere in the middle twenties.
"Lay ye three to one say twenties that he gets away, like that Strathay " I addressed some smiling speech to the wretches, but through the whole evening my cheeks did not cease to burn. When the last guest had gone, tired and hysterical as she was, Mrs. Whitney began a long tirade. "It must be stopped! It must be stopped!" she cried, pacing back and forth. The blaze of anger improved her.
He decides to do nothing till he sees the horses themselves. He pays thirty shillings at the turnstile of the race-course and is admitted to the grand stand. Already one or two bookmakers are shouting from their stands, and some of them have chalked up on blackboards the odds they are willing to give in the big race. He looks at the board and sees that he can get twenties against Cutandrun.
The loving pride of the mother in the child's accomplishment also tended to the care and preservation of the first work of the small hands. As late as the twenties of the eighteenth century, infant schools still existed and samplers were wrought by infant fingers.
She might have been anywhere in the later twenties, but Joy learned afterwards that she was thirty-two. To Joy's eyes she was the fairy lady of the ballad come true; for she had evidently flung herself on her horse just as she was, in a green evening gown with a light cloak over it. Even in her anxiety for the child she had about her an atmosphere of bright serenity that made Joy in love with her.
"If he was a founder in '71, you can't have him trotting over wilderness trails with Marquette and Lasalle, you know." "Nevertheless," responded Kit, ignoring the levity of her nearest neighbor, "he is one of the heroes of our Wisconsin pioneer times. He came here in his early twenties, and married Lucia, the daughter of Captain Peter Morton.
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