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And she told me I must always sing it, too, only somehow I've forgot everything since I came here." "Never mind the rest, deary; try and think about that. It's just the song for a sailor and a sailor's lass." "That's just what my mother used to say that I was a sailor's lass!" exclaimed Tiny. "And she taught you just the right kind of a song. Now try a bit more, deary," he added, coaxingly.
It conjured up recollections of peaceful evenings in the old studio, for this had been a favourite habit of Ruth's. It made him feel that he loved her more than he had ever done in his life; and incidentally that he was a brute to try and thwart her in anything whatsoever. "I know it's horrid for you, dear old boy," said Ruth coaxingly; "but do be good and not make a fuss about it.
"There is a good deal against them in the eyes of the world. Your poor mother, Janetta, always stood up for them, and said that they were more sinned against than sinning." "They? But these young men were not grown up then?" "No; it was their father and " Mr. Colwyn stopped short and seemed as if he did not like to go on. "Tell me, father," said Janetta, coaxingly.
Grannie came to Elm Cottage next morning with two duck eggs for Pete's breakfast. She was boiling them in a saucepan when Pete came downstairs. "Come now," she said coaxingly, as she laid them on the table, with the water smoking off the shells. But Pete could not eat. "He hasn't destroyed any food these days," said Nancy.
Tilly flew to the little wicket and came tripping back with her hands full, her cheeks pink, her curls bobbing. "Just one for the Doctor, and one for your mother, and only papers for you," she cried apologetically. He leaned over the counter, "Come now," he said coaxingly, "are you quite sure you haven't hidden mine away somewhere?"
"Will you bet two to one that I don't stay out all night and knock the Flying Dutchman out of time in the first round afterwards? Eh?" "Come," said Mellish, coaxingly; "have some common-sense. I'm advising you for your good." "Suppose I don't want to be advised for my good. Eh? Hand me over that lemon. You needn't start a speech; I'm not going to eat it."
But Julia did not mean he should have them, and she said, coaxingly, "You have done very wrong, Rondeau, and your master will undoubtedly be very angry, but I will take them to him and intercede for you, as you are on the whole a pretty fine fellow. He’ll forgive you for me. I know he will, but mind, don’t you say anything to him about it until you’ve seen me again."
"Take me in, Britta dear pretty Britta!" he said coaxingly. "Sigurd is hungry! Britta, sweet little Britta, come and talk to me and sing! Good-bye, fat man!" he added suddenly, turning round once more on Dyceworthy. "You will never overtake the big ship that has gone away with Thelma over the water. Thelma will come back, yes! . . . but one day she will go never to come back."
She ignored the injunction to put on her dress and leaned coaxingly nearer to Miss Eliza, whose habitually stern expression softened involuntarily. But how could she help it, with that glowing face wheedling so close to her own? Miss Eliza, after all, was not wood or iron. "Then please, Aunt 'Liza, let me have another dress?" "What do you want with another dress, 'Thusa?"
Gerasimus let the lion sleep a good long nap, to put him in a fine humor. But when it came time for supper he mixed a bowl of porridge and milk and filled a big wooden platter with boiled greens. Then taking one dish in each hand he went up to the lion and set them in front of his nose. "Leo, Leo, Leo!" he called coaxingly, just as a little girl would call "Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!" to her pet.
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