No peaches could look fresher than
Rosey's cheeks,--no damask was fairer than her pretty little shoulders.
No one, I am sure, could be happier than she, but she did not impart her
happiness to her friends; and replied chiefly by smiles to the
conversation of the gentlemen at her side. It is true that these were for
the most part elderly dignitaries, distinguished military officers with
blue-black whiskers, retired old Indian judges, and the like, occupied
with their victuals, and generally careless to please. But that solemn
happiness of the Colonel, who shall depict it:--that look of affection
with which he greeted his daughter as she entered, flounced to the waist,
twinkling with innumerable jewels, holding a dainty pocket-handkerchief,
with smiling eyes, dimpled cheeks, and golden ringlets! He would take her
hand, or follow her about from group to group, exchanging precious
observations about the weather, the Park, the exhibition, nay, the opera,
for the old man actually went to the opera with his little girl, and
solemnly snoozed by her side in a white waistcoat.
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