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Updated: June 14, 2025
And to the individual, more especially, he was very tender. Like a foolish woman, perhaps, he told himself to-day as he walked on heavily in the wild wind, debating his deed of the night and its consequences. He had erased the name of Pringle from the stone that covered little Jack, the wonder-child. And he felt like a criminal.
The boy stared at the sea urchin, at those painted eyes full of the sea wonder, at those parted lips, that mouth whispering to the sea. His nose twisted slightly. "'That ain't me, he said. 'That ain't me. "I looked down at him, and knew that he spoke the truth; for already the wonder-child was fading, even had faded.
They give us not only an idea of her musical ability, but serve to illustrate the character of the concert pieces in vogue at that time. No musical life would be complete, even if it is that of a “wonder-child” without some information concerning the actual work performed. Mademoiselle Urso was not in any sense limited in her range of pieces.
To-night he will understand that it is useless to wait, that the wonder-child can never come to this island, for he came on the breast of the sea long ago. And if he does know, now, at this moment, while the islanders are singing, "And with the morn those angel faces smile " how will he regard me, who have lied to him and who have preached to him, coward and hypocrite?
He painted furiously, blocking in the limp little figure with swift, sure strokes of his brush. When at last he desisted he flung a question at her. "Who taught you to pose and to dance like that, you wonder-child?"
Carus, to an evening of music, and especially to hear the piano playing of a wonder-child a "musical fairy," his hostess called her. In the course of the evening he accompanied Frau Carus in some Schubert songs, when, chancing to look up, he saw a child dressed in white, her pretty face framed in dark hair, her expressive eyes raised toward the singer in rapt admiration.
Since they got to be in camp, all right, I say, let them be there, if my heart breaks for it, but not my wonder-child! You can get exemption, Leon, right away for the asking. Stay with me, Leon! Don't go away! The people at home got to be kept happy with music. That's being a soldier, too, playing their troubles away. Stay with me, Leon! Don't go leave me don't don't "
Being in benign mood, she smiled at the big man who held her so gently, and put out a tentative fist toward his face. "Born flirt," he declared, "just like her mother! Well, Patty, she's a wonder-child, oh, I know 'em! and I hereby constitute myself her godfather, without waiting to be asked." "Good! We accept the honour. Make a bow, Fleurette." "No, the honour is mine.
Then his mother gave him a large ax, and he used to go out in the forest and help the woodcutters, who called him "Wonder-child," and his mother the "Old Nurse of the Mountains," for they did not know her high rank. Another favorite pastime of Kintaro's was to smash up rocks and stones. You can imagine how strong he was!
She was never that Rosalie the conventional wonder-child of fiction who reads before ten all that its author probably never read before thirty; but she could read when she was six and she read widely and curiously, choosing her entertainment, from her father's bookshelves, solely by the method of reading every book that had pictures.
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