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About six months old I call him, and as pretty a child as ever I saw, even my own." She looked half-defiantly at Father Golden, who returned the look with one of mild deprecation. "I was only thinking of the care 'twould be to you, mother," he said.
"I am never naughty," she said, half-crossly, half-defiantly; "only if you come near my hammock, I will bite you, and then you will go away." "Why did you bite poor Primrose?" "Because she said we should never see Snowdrop; as if we were not good enough to look at her, and she was, the proud thing! served her right!"
Returning as a middle-aging widow, after an unhappy wifehood in Africa, she meets on the boat two persons, Captain Brangwyn, a young man, and a girl-mother calling herself Antonina Pisa. Hence the tears. Brangwyn she marries, doubtfully, half-defiantly, despite the difference in years between them; Antonina is taken as a companion and very soon developes into a sick-nurse.
"But what's the use of living, and dragging out a dog's existence in that wretched shack of mine, when in a second I can be free from all the trouble." "Yes, Joe, you may free yourself from the trouble in this life, but is it manly to bring sorrow to others, and bow the heads of your dear ones?" Joe looked up. "No one cares for me," he said, half-defiantly. "No one? Think again.
Chattering gayly yet half-defiantly, on her face the while a baffling smile, partly tender, partly amused, and wholly coquettish the smile that maddened and yet entranced him she brought the mask of reserve to his face and man. At such times he never succeeded in remembering that she was but little more than a child, heart-free, capricious, and wilful.
I fancy that the same thought was in both our minds: Could this be the same woman whom we had seen selling her kisses at an East Side bazaar? The very thought was incredible. And remember that we had not heard her voice before. Yet neither of us doubted, even for a moment. "After all, it was only the one kiss that was actually sold and delivered," said Indiman, half-defiantly.
It is the secret of success, Flopsie be a sparkler and you've got everything before you." Louise Renaud looked across at him half-defiantly. Her prim, cruel mouth hardened into a tight line. "To spark-el?" she said "that is what we call etinceler eclater. Yes, I comprehend! Miladi is one spark-el! But one must be a very good jewel to spark-el always yes yes not a sham!"
"Of my wedding day," she replied half-defiantly. "Surely you know that the priest has arrived. I am to be married to-morrow morning." "To-morrow morning!" I gasped. "Yes, unless the world ends before then. Oh, Denzil, I have such wicked thoughts to-night! It is in my heart to wish that the Indians would take the fort that something would happen before to-morrow."
"Well, Miss Carew," he now exclaimed, after warmly greeting his visitors, "have you disburdened yourself of prejudice against this estate? Wealth may be a little hardship at first, but soon you won't mind it." "Not a bit!" spoke up Barnes. "It's as easy to get used to as poverty, and we've had plenty of that!" "You know the other condition?" she said, half-defiantly, half-sadly.
Dalton paying such attentions to a young lady while I was there as would convince anyone of the truth of the rumours that are afloat about him, she simpered out, half-defiantly. "'His sister, perhaps' your mother muttered, knocking her ivory pen-handle nervously against her white teeth. "'No, indeed nor his cousin neither, Miss Hartney retorted, with a covert little sneer.
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