-LRB- PETER , ASIDE : `` What kind of a thing is that ? '' -RRB- Her creamy skin is as fair and flawless as the petals of a white lily . Her voice is like the ripple of a woodland brook and her slender form is matchless in its symmetry . -LRB- DAN : `` That 's Valeria 's way of putting it , but Uncle Roger says she do n't show her feed much . '' FELICITY : `` Dan ! if Uncle Roger is vulgar you need n't be ! '' -RRB- Her hands are like a poet 's dreams . She dresses so nicely and looks so stylish in her clothes . Her favourite colour is blue . Some people think she is stiff and some say she is stuck-up , but she is n't a bit . It 's just that she is different from them and they do n't like it . She is just lovely and we adore her . -RRB- CECILY KING . CHAPTER X. DISAPPEARANCE OF PADDY As I remember , the spring came late that year in Carlisle . It was May before the weather began to satisfy the grown-ups . But we children were more easily pleased , and we thought April a splendid month because the snow all went early and left gray , firm , frozen ground for our rambles and games . As the days slipped by they grew more gracious ; the hillsides began to look as if they were thinking of mayflowers ; the old orchard was washed in a bath of tingling sunshine and the sap stirred in the big trees ; by day the sky was veiled with delicate cloud drift , fine and filmy as woven mist ; in the evenings a full , low moon looked over the valleys , as pallid and holy as some aureoled saint ; a sound of laughter and dream was on the wind and the world grew young with the mirth of April breezes . `` It 's so nice to be alive in the spring , '' said the Story Girl one twilight as we swung on the boughs of Uncle Stephen 's walk . `` It 's nice to be alive any time , '' said Felicity , complacently . `` But it 's nicer in the spring , '' insisted the Story Girl .
`` When I 'm dead I think I 'll FEEL dead all the rest of the year , but when XXXXX comes I 'm sure I 'll feel like getting up and being alive again . ''
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