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Slender, men called her, and women "a bean pole." There was about her a great deal of the child and something of the wood-nymph. She had abundant hair, the color of a dead oak-leaf, and her skin was clear, with a brown tinge.
Christopher was leaning over the back of my chair, quite close, in a devoted attitude. Lord Robert did not speak, but if a look could wither I must have turned into a dead oak-leaf. It awoke some devil in me. What had I done to be annihilated so! I was playing perfectly fair keeping my word to Lady Ver, and oh, I felt as if it were breaking my heart. But that look of Lord Robert's!
The weather that day, the first day Lancelot ever saw his beloved, was truly national. A silent, dim, distanceless, steaming, rotting day in March. The last brown oak-leaf which had stood out the winter's frost, spun and quivered plump down, and then lay; as if ashamed to have broken for a moment the ghastly stillness, like an awkward guest at a great dumb dinner-party.
'When you wake up, the dream will say, 'you will find a rose or an oak-leaf or an eagle's feather, or whatever it may be, on your pillow. Well, I have brought this stocking for which, if I might but use them, I have at the moment a stock of the most appropriately endearing adjectives for the same purpose.
A sharp crack followed, a bright flash in the darkness every white birch-stem and jagged oak-leaf shone out for a moment as bright as day and in front of the glare Lancelot saw the old man throw his arms wildly upward, fall forward, and disappear on the dark ground. 'You've done it! off with you! And the rascals rushed off up the ride.
I seem to hear you say that, for all that is come and gone, yet we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistle with a piece of fine thread. The cow soon observed Tom's oak-leaf hat, and liking the appearance of it, took poor Tom and the thistle at one mouthful.
"There's hemstitching and fagoting, but I don't know as it's any less work than ruffling. And all the little girls are knitting lace. I'm doing some myself, oak-leaf pattern out of seventy cotton, and it's as handsome as anything you ever see." "I don't know how any one is going to find time for so much folderol!" "Oh, pshaw, Cousin Underhill, we did lots of it in our day.
She had her lace in a little bag, and presently she sat down on an ottoman and took out her work. "You don't mean to say that child can knit lace? And oak-leaf, too, I do declare! What a smart little girl!" "Oh, she embroiders quite nicely, also. Hannah Ann, get your apron and show Cousin Dorcas." The apron was praised and the handkerchiefs she had marked for her father were brought out.
There is her straw hat, she made that oak-leaf wreath about the crown one bright summer day, as we sat on the soft moss in the cool fragrant wood. Nelly liked the woods.
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