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Its orthography was impeccable, though its method was somewhat todious, for the Author had to run through the alphabet to provoke the sprite into tapping at any particular letter. But one soon grew reconciled to its cumbrous methods, as though holding converse with a foreigner; and its remarks made up in emphasis what they lacked in brevity, and were given with exemplary promptitude.
She knew that her dear father and mother had made a great sacrifice when they had decided to live through the Fall, the Winter and, the Spring in the old house on the shore, without the little daughter, whose face was like sunshine, whose voice was music in the home. There were times when Sprite was homesick, but those were the rare occasions when she chanced to be alone.
To our excited imaginations what dazzling triumphs the future held out for Teddy. "Yep; Ted's still a-beout. Three days in the week he drives stage coach over to Spicerville, and the rest o' the time he does odd jobs sort o' tendin' round." And Sallie Cotton black-eyed, curly-haired, mischievous little sprite, the agony of the teacher and the love and admiration of the boys!
And if you will imagine the sprite of the aggregate English Taxpayer personifying Steam as the malignant who has despoiled him of the blessed Safety-Assurance he once had from his God Neptune against invaders, you will comprehend the state of Mr. Inchling's mind in regard to his terrific and bountiful, but very disturbing partner.
"I folded the book on my thumb and sat there silent and without moving for a long time. I was stunned by the clearness of vision the verse had imparted to me. It was illumination. It was like a bolt of God's lightning in the Pit. They would keep Love, the fickle sprite, the forerunner of young life young life that is imperative to be born!
"I know that," Princess Polly said, "because he told papa that the time for Sprite to be with him was close at hand, and papa said that he knew that we had had our share of her visit, but she has been so sweet, so dear, that we'd never be ready to let her go." "That's just the reason we want her, for truly, Princess Polly, next to you, Sprite is the sweetest girl I know.
Her whole being was concentrated in a continually shifting calculation of the respective distances between the tug and the piers, the tug and the relentlessly advancing wave. "Oh, go!" she exhorted the SPRITE under her breath. Then the crowd, too, caught with its slower perceptions the import of the wave. Carroll felt the electric thrill of apprehension shiver through it.
'And the swift boat the little waves which bore Were cut by its keen keel, though slantingly, which means 'And the little waves, which bore the swift boat, were cut, &c.; also in the Ode to Naples, strophe 4, 'Florence, beneath the sun, Of cities fairest one, Blushes within her bower for Freedom's expectation. His clear sprite.
"Maman!" cried the sprite, and went dancing up the stairs. Mr. Raleigh's face, as he turned, darkened with a heavier flush than half a score of Indian summers branded upon it afterward. "That is Mrs. Laudersdale's little maid?" asked he, when, after a few moments, he brought the required salver. "Yes, would you ever suspect it?"
Quickly they turned to do as he said, and to their surprise, they found that while Iris, and Rose, and Sprite had been entertaining them, the housekeeper had arranged the seats in rows, as if at a private theatre.
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