Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just come back," said he. There is nothing new to tell you; nothing new ever happens here. Stay; there is a little change: an old ape and his daughter have just come from the South. No one knows more of them than that he is a celebrated philosopher. The girl is pretty enough, but insignificant. There is no force in her, and beauty of the highest type cannot exist without force. But, speaking of them, I remember that they have not yet seen me; I must step in a moment, to countenance their arrival. Good-evening...
...dearest girl," began Sue, "why are you so awfully sad? What has been weighing down your heart for days? No longer the form of Loe is most conspicuous in the dance; no longer her voice is sweetest in the song. Yet you should be happiest of the happy, for you are favored beyond...
...shrill cry puts an end to his wild fancies, and turning, he sees his girl alternately lifting up and putting down her feet like a miniature quartzmill, while the log on which she is trying to stand performs a series of swift revolutions. Diggles madly rushes to her assistance; will he be too late? Her head swims, her brain reels. Why did she trust him? Alas! why did she trust him? Faster and faster turns the log; faster and faster twinkle the maiden's feet. A slide, a splash, a faintly gurgled "Diggles!" and the dark waters close over...
Diggles has a new girl...
...girl under extremely favorable circumstances will do very well, but I tell you when you have nine of them, all with entirely different inclinations and propensities, to which you must conform your own, it makes a fellow long again for those happy ante-woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...