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That was gone irrevocably; and the voice belonged to the likeness of Barbara, and no other; from her similitude, little, quaint, with her hair of cloudy red and her large, dim-sighted eyes, it played upon the spiritual sense within him with the coaxing, drolling, mocking charm which he had felt from the first. It blessed him with intelligent and joyous forgiveness.
Now, now, my Besso, shall it be done? he continued with the coaxing voice and with the wheedling manner of a girl. 'You shall have any terms you like, and I will always love you so, my Besso. Let it be done, let it be done!
Elise meanwhile laid aside her charcoal, began to dash in some paint, drew back presently to look at it from a distance, and then, glancing aside, suddenly threw down her brushes, and ran up to David. She sat down beside him, and with a coaxing, childish gesture, drew his arm about her. 'Tu me fais pitie, mon ami! she said, looking up into his face. 'Is it your sister?
But I would rather he did not go." "Just this once," persisted Mrs. Teidelmann. "It is holiday time." A ray of sunlight fell into the room, lighting upon her coaxing face, making where my mother stood seem shadow. "I would rather he did not go," repeated my mother, and her voice sounded harsh and grating.
"How do you feel now?" he said to his wife, in spite of the coldness that separated them. "Pretty well, Jules," she answered in a coaxing voice, "do come and dine beside me." "Very good," he said, giving her the letter. "Here is something Fouguereau gave me for you." Clemence, who was very pale, colored high when she saw the letter, and that sudden redness was a fresh blow to her husband.
"Maria!" With a cry Ann fled up the flagged path, and the nest moment Maria's arms had enveloped her and she was coaxing and patting and hugging her just as she had done through a hundred childish tragedies in years gone by, with the soft, slurred Devon brogue making familiar music in Ann's ears. "There now, there now, miss dear, don't 'ee take on like that.
The leaves are ovate-oblong, and pubescent on the undersides. It is a valuable as well as ornamental little tree, and is worthy of a great amount of coddling and coaxing to get it established. Japan. This is a very distinct and beautiful flowering shrub.
"You are the agent here, I presume?" Maryllia's voice rang cold and clear, there was not a trace of the sweet and coaxing tone in it that had warmed the heart of old Josey Letherbarrow. Leach looked up, lifting his cap half reluctantly. "I am!" "You have had my orders?" Leach was silent.
After long and tedious coaxing I at last grabbed the little thing spitting furiously while Bridget gave it some food, and in return for my trouble it bit and scratched like a young devil! It was terribly hungry and bolted all we had brought. When we got her to the cook-house she ran round the place like a mad thing, and turned out to be rather a fast cat altogether when she grew up.
We struck awkward but rapid and heavy strokes in the timber camp established on the bluff overlooking the falls at Tumwater. The little cook supplied the huckleberry pudding for dinner, with plenty of the lightest, whitest bread, and vegetables, meat, and fish served in style good enough for kings. Such appetites! No coaxing was required to get us to eat a hearty meal.
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