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Excerpt from The World Went Very Well Then: A Novel
IN a small back parlor, behind an apothecary's shop, were sitting two boys and a girl. The boys were aged respectively twelve years and ten; the elder of them was a tall and strongly built lad, with curling hair of a dark brown, and eyes of much the same color; the younger, fair-haired, and of slighter pro portions. The girl was nine; but she looked more, being tall for her age. Her hair was so dark that it looked almost black. It hung loose, in long curls or ripples, not being coarse and thick, as happens generally with hair that is quite black, but fine in texture and lustrous to look upon. Her eyes, too, were black and large. The elder boy and the girl sat side by side in the window-seat, while the other boy sat at the table, having a pencil in his hand and a piece of paper before him, on which he was drawing idly whatever came into his head. All three were silent, save that the elder boy-from time*to time whispered the girl: or pinched her ear, or pulled her hair, when she would Shake her head and smile, and point to the great chair beside the fire, as much as to say, 9 If it were not for that chair, Jack, and. The person in it, T'would box thy ears.
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