Her reception of her brother was most affectionate—there are times when the most artificial, by habit, become natural; when the early memories of the heart, for a short time at least, spring up as a fountain of living waters, overflowing the selfish vanities and conventional incrustations which the world has planted—giving honest smiles to the countenance; artless, yet loving words to the tongue; and the gratified heart seems restored to a new childhood.
Of course, there are more informal ways to get and maintain dreadlocks than to book a more or less professional loctician.
A Custum' Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons, said the Jack , repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt , “when they comes betwixt him and his own light[…]
She was not exactly a beauty, Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very intelligent, she was invariably at the center of every social gathering, the favorite of girls and young men alike.
