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She had the valuable gift of sitting still without stiffness, and

not fidgetting with fan, bouquet, or hand-kerchief, as she listened

or talked Rosa's mercurial temperament betrayed itself, every

instant, in the bird-like turn of her sers, and not unfrequently by an impatient

stamp, or other movement of her foot that exposed fairy toe and

instep Contemplation of the one rested and refreshed the observer;

of the other, amatic

nature found supre upon the incarnation of

patrician tranquillity at his right hand, and he regarded the

actions of his frisky would-be tored salmon would survey, froyrations of a painted dragon fly overhead

A lull in the geteral conversation--the reaction after a hearty

laugh at a happy repartee--gave others besides Mabel the opportunity

of profiting by his learned rehted policy," he was

urging upon his auditor, with the assistance of a thuer of one hand, joined as upon a pinch of snuff, and tapping

the centre of the other palance, which fells and consurowth--(I use the terh, philosophically considered, it is

inaccurate) giants, which centuries will not replace, instead of

seeking beneath the superficial covering ofthese,

for the exhaustless riches, carboniferous remains of antediluvian