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Surely it was the same Mary Ann, with the same winsome face and the same large pathetic eyes, ringed though they were with the shadow of tears. Mary Ann, in her neat white cap yes and in her tan kid gloves. He rubbed his eyes. Was he really awake? Or a thought still more dizzying had he been dreaming?
Her demeanour is obviously that of a meek and modest woman, but Punter, with his true genius, has caught that glint of inward fire, that fleeting look of shy mischief that earned for her the world-famous nickname of "Winsome Sal." It was when she was eighteen that Destiny, with inhuman cunning, caught up in his net the fragile ball of her life.
There had come over him a desire that this winsome girl, winsome in spite of her crudity, would say she did. Wonder, love, sympathy, were alive in her eyes. Jinnie nodded her head. "Oh, yes, sir!" she murmured. "Of course I love you! I couldn't tell you how much.... I love why, I even love Mose. Mose's Matty's man. He stole and et up all our chickens but I love him just the same.
Why afflict me thus; why couple my name with so great a lord's?" "Because beware the young gallants already so couple it, and their prophecies are not to thine honour, Sibyll. Nay, do not frown on me. I know thou art fair and winsome, and deftly gifted, and thy father may, for aught I know, be able to coin thee a queen's dower out of his awsome engines.
"You don't like the place?" he asked; and he was amazed by the effect of this question, which was merely polite. It was as if a storm cloud had swept over the girl's face. "I hate it! 'Tis a place of fear and devils!" He hesitated a moment; then, "Will you tell me what you mean by that when I come?" But "Red Mary" was winsome again. "When ye come, Mr.
Ralph Peden, who had taken a step forward in the instancy of his appeal, came to himself again in a moment. "I beg your pardon," he said very humbly, "I had no right " He paused, uncertain what to say. Winsome Charteris looked up quickly, saw the simplicity of the young man, in one full eye-blink read his heart, then dropped her eyes again and said: "But I thought you liked lilac sunbonnets!"
Aunt Mary was a woman that a rarer young man would have been attracted by; indeed the delicacy of a young man may be tested by the sympathy he may feel for women when age has drawn a veil over, and put sexual promptings aside. Her bright teeth and eyes, the winsome little face, so glad, would have at once charmed and led any young man not so brutally young as Frank Escott.
The obsolete old pair of lovers in "Old-fashioned Farmers" is one of the most charming and winsome things that Gogol wrote at this period: it came straight from the depths of his immeasurable tenderness. It appealed to that Pity which, as every one has noticed, is a fundamental attribute of the national Russian character.
There was no mistaking the facts that the dog was introducing them, and that he was as proud of his new acquaintance as he was pleased to present his older and more intimate companion. A sunny smile broke over the girl's winsome face, as she caught the meaning of Czar's behavior. "O," she said, "are you his master?"
The "dormouse," however, used to come up and say her parts for my benefit, and that of occasional friends, and was so modest and winsome, and her earnings so invaluable to the family, that I entirely altered my opinion.
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