EVA in Classic Quotes

1  "And you shall have good times," said Eva.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

2  "It was a very easy way, aunty," said Eva.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  It was quite evident, at a glance, that the gentleman was Eva's father.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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4  "Then I mean to call you Uncle Tom, because, you see, I like you," said Eva.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

5  My papa can buy you," said Eva, quickly; "and if he buys you, you will have good times.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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6  Evangeline St. Clare," said the little one, "though papa and everybody else call me Eva.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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7  Papa never is in a hurry about anything," said Eva, "and we haven't come to the landing.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

8  Eva joyously pointed out the various spires, domes, and way-marks, by which she recognized her native city.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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9  It was a daguerreotype, clear and soft as an engraving, representing Eva and her father sitting hand in hand.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

10  The boat here stopped at a small landing to take in wood, and Eva, hearing her father's voice, bounded nimbly away.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

11  As the carriage drove in, Eva seemed like a bird ready to burst from a cage, with the wild eagerness of her delight.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

12  Eva, the beautiful Eva, had stood listening to her mother, with that expression of deep and mystic earnestness which was peculiar to her.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

13  While this had been passing, Eva had flown like a bird, through the porch and parlor, to a little boudoir opening likewise on the verandah.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

14  The decent mulatto woman whom Eva had caressed so rapturously soon entered; she was dressed neatly, with a high red and yellow turban on her head, the recent gift of Eva, and which the child had been arranging on her head.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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15  Eva and her father were standing together by the railings to see the boat start from the landing-place, the wheel had made two or three revolutions in the water, when, by some sudden movement, the little one suddenly lost her balance and fell sheer over the side of the boat into the water.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

16  This woman did not tell her that she made her head ache, but, on the contrary, she hugged her, and laughed, and cried, till her sanity was a thing to be doubted of; and when released from her, Eva flew from one to another, shaking hands and kissing, in a way that Miss Ophelia afterwards declared fairly turned her stomach.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

17  "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV