A Pair of Blue Eyes

al, throned

heir nature more precisely, and as modified by the creeping hours of tim

conversing with her; and this charming power of preventing a material study of her lineaments by an interlocutor, originated not in the cloaking effect of a well-formed manner (for her manner was childish and scarcely formed), but in the attractive c

r eyes. In them was seen a sublimation of all of her;

treating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. A misty a

can make their personality pervade the atmosphere of a whole banq

e of woman's feature most common to the beauties-mortal and immortal-of Rubens, without their insistent fleshiness. The characteristic expression of

r afternoon when she found herself standing, in the character of hostess, face to face with a man she had never seen

widower, was suffering from an attack of gout. After finishing her household supervisions Elfride became

wered in a hearty out-of-

lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown, and every now and then enunciating, in spite of himself, about one letter of some wo

bear even a handkerchief upon this deuced toe of mine, much less a stocking

n won't come; for I don't k

ld be awkward

y think he woul

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the wind

idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!...If he should come, you must send him up to me, I sup

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ed man at the end of

, th

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d fowl, rabbit-pie, some past

high

ur out his

are the mistre

a stranger, just as if I knew him

this morning, will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night. He wants food and shelter, and you must see that he has it, simply because I am

e this. But, you see, you are always there when people come to dinner, even if we know

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is he,

Hewby, and his answer, upon the table in the study. You may re

e read

in all I know. Ugh-h-h!...Od plague you, you young scamp! d

ug she had thrown upon the feet of the sufferer; and waiting till she saw that consciousness of