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Sweet, and long, and rapturous was the kiss which sealed this sacred and entrancing promise. The pathetic sentiment that pervaded their attachment kept their passion pure, and seldom have two lovers so beautiful, sat cheek to cheek together, in an embrace guileless and innocent as theirs.
Still he looked hale and hearty, and the country life he led had imparted a ruddier glow to his cheek. Around him were all the evidences of plenty.
"Ha!" muttered Aram, who had hitherto seemed unconscious of all around him; so fixed had been his eye, so colourless his cheek, so motionless his posture.
Carless," answered Drillford laconically. "We'll see to that!" Mr. Carless again cast an eye on the passage he had just read, and then, touching Lord Ellingham's arm, drew his attention to it again, whispering something in his ear at which the young man's cheek reddened. Then he gathered up the papers, carefully replaced them in their linen-lined envelope, and handed them to Drillford.
When he spoke, the rest fell into awed attention. "Hallo, new kid, what's your name?" "Robert Stonehouse." "Don't be so abrupt, my boy," a delighted titter from the small fry "say 'sir' when you answer me." "I shan't." The little colourless eyes widened in sheer incredulity. For a moment the role of humorist was forgotten. "Look here no cheek, or I'll smack your head."
One of these scraps struck the girl on the cheek and she put her hand up quickly to feel the spot. While examining the place she received a similar blow on the forehead and another on the back of her hand. Drawing her bonnet down tight over her face for protection, she shaded her eyes and again looked up. The whole moving cloud had lowered to a distinguishable distance.
The brow would have remained as calm and as cold, and the cheek as pale and as still, while, in all human probability, the faithful Nubian would have sat as immovable upon his rug at the bedside of his beloved master, and have gazed upon him as untiringly with his dark and sleepless eye.
'If it be that I must think of wedding again so soon, sighed the countess, 'go then to King Arthur, and find me such a knight. But let him be gentle as well as brave, with fine and courtly manners a man, indeed, whom I can really love. Elined went and kissed the flushing cheek of her mistress. 'Trust me for that, she said gently. 'I would do that as much for myself as for thee, my dear Carol.
One day, very soon after their marriage, Aylmer sat gazing at his wife with a trouble in his countenance that grew stronger until he spoke. "Georgiana," said he, "has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?" "No, indeed," said she, smiling; but perceiving the seriousness of his manner, she blushed deeply.
Strangways and his kind " "Oh, will you, Cousin Wyvis?" She turned an eager, sparkling face upon him. It occurred to him, almost for the first time, to admire her. With that light in her eye, that color in her cheek, Janetta was almost beautiful. He smiled. "I shall be only too glad of an excuse," he said, with more simplicity and earnestness than she had as yet distinguished in his voice.
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