1 And leaning over the youth's chair, she took the glass from his hand and held it to his lips.
2 The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions.
3 Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
4 Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth held out to her.
5 The water which the youth handed to them in a tin pail was not cold to taste, but it was cool to her heated face, and it greatly revived and refreshed her.
6 A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.
7 Venus rising from the foam could have presented no more entrancing a spectacle than Mrs. Pontellier, blazing with beauty and diamonds at the head of the board, while the other women were all of them youthful houris, possessed of incomparable charms.
8 He told some amusing plantation experiences, recollections of old Iberville and his youth, when he hunted 'possum in company with some friendly darky; thrashed the pecan trees, shot the grosbec, and roamed the woods and fields in mischievous idleness.'
9 When Madame Lebrun complained that it was so dull coming back to the city; that she saw so few people now; that even Victor, when he came up from the island for a day or two, had so much to occupy him and engage his time; then it was that the youth went into contortions on the lounge and winked mischievously at Edna.