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The women would bring their pretty brown babies for the fair English lady to admire or to pat on the head; and when Muriel now and again stooped down to caress some fat little naked child, lolling in the dust outside the hut, with true tropical laziness, the mothers would run up at the sight with delight and joy, and throw themselves down in ecstacies of gratitude for the notice she had taken of their favored little ones.
I say, Patricia, do you always turn reproof on the reprover's head?" He leant against the bank looking up at her, smiling in his easy, good-tempered way. He wished vaguely the line of frown on her pretty forehead would go. He wondered if she had a headache. He ventured to put his hand over hers when he was sure Christopher was not looking. She neither answered the caress nor resented it.
The fact was all that concerned her that her lover was dying there, so near that she could touch him with her hand, so far away that no voice, no caress of hers, could reach him. The why would come later. Now she could only stand, with Dr. Ed's arms about her, and wait. "If they would only do something!" Sidney's voice sounded strange to her ears. "There is nothing to do."
From the day she weaned him, no one had ever seen her caress the child. She handled him with a touch as light and fleeting as his own; her lips seemed to shrink from contact with his pure soft skin. There could be no doubt of it, Mrs. Nevill Tyson's behavior was that of a guilty woman guilty in will at any rate, if not in deed.
"I love hounds," she said, patting Denver, which caress immediately made Jim and Sampson jealous. "I've gotten on pretty well with these, but that Kane won't make up. Isn't he splendid? But he's afraid no, not afraid of me, but he doesn't like me." "It's mistrust. He's been hurt. I reckon he'll get over that after a while." "You don't beat dogs?" she asked, eagerly. "No, miss.
She arose and kissed his hands, kissed him on the forehead, uttering meanwhile but that one word, which was in itself a prolonged caress: "My friend! my friend "
I did there caress her, but though I did make some offer did not receive any compliance from her in what was bad, but very modestly she denied me, which I was glad to see and shall value her the better for it, and I hope never tempt her to any evil more.
In that hour was forged the chain which bound them through life, and made them one in interest. Years rolled on, and found Mary happy in her adopted home. If her uncle failed to caress her as her loving heart desired, she did not complain, for she was treated like her cousin, and found in the strong love of Florence an antidote for every care.
But this book lies motionless, to be caressed all the morning by the sun and to raise its covers slightly, as though acknowledging the caress. Presently Lucy steps out of the drawing-room window. Her new cerise dress has been a failure, and makes her look tawdry and wan. At her throat is a garnet brooch, on her finger a ring set with rubies an engagement ring. Her eyes are bent to the Weald.
Come and kiss him, Hannah, and make it all up." "That's the way with you men," said the woman bitterly. "These things count for little. Henry Ferguson must prove he's honest in what he says by deeds, not words. I'll do as I've said if he acts square, and that's enough to start with." "All right," said Ferguson, glad enough to escape the caress. "I'll do as I say."
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