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Dead though he was, if that were known not a beggar in the street would marry Catharine. But since Fanny Guinness was an amiable, pink-cheeked belle in the village choir, she had never turned her back on an enemy: why should she now? Hugh Guinness had hated her as the vicious always hate the good, but she was thankful she had smiled and greeted him with Christian forbearance to the very last.
And, in the person of a young gentleman leaning against the park railing, he discovered the source from which the mental sufferings emanated. The young man was a pink-cheeked, yellow-haired youth of extremely boyish appearance, and dressed as if for the race-track. But at the moment his pink and babyish face wore an expression of complete misery.
About ten o'clock Bunting went out to do some shopping. He brought back with him a nice little bit of pork for Daisy's dinner, and three mince-pies. He even remembered to get some apples for the sauce. Just as twelve was striking a four-wheeler drew up to the gate. It brought Daisy pink-cheeked, excited, laughing-eyed Daisy a sight to gladden any father's heart.
"Phil Baronet, you thon of a horthe-thief, where have you been keeping yourthelf? We've been waiting here thinthe Thummer before latht to meet you." That was Bud Anderson's greeting. Pink-cheeked, sturdy, and stubby as a five-year-old, he was standing in my path as I slipped from my horse in front of old Fort Hays one October day a fortnight after the rescue of Colonel Forsyth's little company.
No one touched a space deeply filled with straw, but now and again Medora glanced back at it with the dawning of a smile in her grief-stricken face that cold, nor fear, nor despair could wholly overcast. Three small heads, all golden and curly, all pink-cheeked and fair, all blissfully slumbering, rested there as if they had been so many dolls packed away thus for fear of breaking.
At times he stopped to permit a pink-cheeked infant in a perambulator to beat him with a rattle while he inquired its age of an episcopal nurse, gay with flowing ribbons.
She had stopped short at the fighting-word, and turned, pink-cheeked. Certes, there was a point at which noblesse oblige becomes mere flabby spinelessness. And upstairs Mrs. Heth, complacent right up at the front, craned round her neck, and thought that Cally was very long in coming.... "Yes? What about the Works?" said Cally, her breath quickening.
They were neither dull-looking nor with a film drawn over them. It was very hard indeed to believe that the little girl was sightless. She was flaxen-haired, pink-cheeked, and not too slender. Yet Janice could not say that she was pretty. Indeed the impression the afflicted child made upon one was quite the reverse.
She seemed as keenly alive to the fact of these male presences as the two other women seemed oblivious. 'Which is the one, asked Lord Borrodaile, 'that you were telling me about? 'Why, Ernestine Blunt the pink-cheeked one in the long alpaca coat. 'She doesn't look so very devilish, he laughed. After an impatient moment's hope that devilishness might develop, he said, 'She hasn't seen you yet.
On the other side was a pink-cheeked boy of seventeen, all French, though he spoke English and divided his time between writing post-cards to the boys he had been visiting in England and reading General von Bernhardi. "The first chapter, 'The Right to Make War," he said, "I understand that yes! But the second chapter 'The Duty to Make War'" he laughed and shook his head. "No no no!"
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