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Did you ever read right across the paper, one line in each column, and notice the odd and twisted-up sense it made? That's about the way it sounds." How bright and charming she was! Ben could not keep his eyes from her radiant face. Was she really a coquette, Chilian wondered. Yet she was so simple with it all, so seemingly careless of the effect. That was the danger of it.
"Well, I never thought much of a Chinaman's wit," he observed; "but I did not think he was such a goose as to fancy that a breeze would be sent merely because he put some twisted-up bits of paper on the water." Jos, who understood some of these remarks, looked at him, and remarked "When I 'board English ship I hear sailors whistle, whistle, whistle when dere is calm. I ask why dey do dat?
By the side of Messer Griffo, on a high bay, rode one that at the first glance I took for a youth, and that at the second glance I knew for Madonna Vittoria in the habit of a youth. It became her plumpness very lovingly, and, indeed, she looked very well with a scarlet cap set atop of her twisted-up tresses and her eyes all fire with excitement.
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