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Travers, christened Leopold, who calls you "his old friend," a term which I take for granted belongs to that class of poetic exaggeration in which the "dears" and "darlings" of conjugal intercourse may be categorized.
But, believe me, this gratifying idea is not founded on fact; it is not the glossy feather, or the manly form, my son, it is the wealth that you possess, and even more than that, the social dignity and rank, which is already yours, that has brought a circle of charming darlings around you.
"Not if we face the way the train's coming?" asked Peter, after a gloomy pause, in which glances of despair were exchanged. "No really not," said Mother. Then Phyllis said, "Mother, didn't YOU ever walk on the railway lines when you were little?" Mother was an honest and honourable Mother, so she had to say, "Yes." "Well, then," said Phyllis. "But, darlings, you don't know how fond I am of you.
"Forty-three pounds seven and twopence, nearly fifty pounds, my darlings, in solid coin of the realm, and all of our amassing!" cried Nan three hours later, as the last visitor drove away from the door of Thurston House, and the contents of the cash-boxes were counted over by half a dozen eager workers.
Bacon would fling up the sash of her drawing-room window, and look out with her four children at the chaise, as much as to say, "Look at these four darlings. Flora Bungay! this is why I can't drive in my carriage; you would give a coach-and-four to have the same reason."
He looked as if he enjoyed their surprise and delight quite as much as they did the tree. "Other folks have been kind to you, too, my darlings," he said, seating himself, with Gracie still in his arms, "as you will see presently, when the gifts are distributed."
As Marguerite left the room, Madame Claes glanced at the children through the windows of her chamber, which looked on the garden, and saw that they were watching one of those insects with shining wings spotted with gold, commonly called "darning-needles." "Be good, my darlings," she said, raising the lower sash of the window and leaving it up to air the room.
There from the many-orbed heart where the Mother Breathes forth the love on her darlings who roam, We will send dreams to their land of another Land of the Shining, their birthplace and home. He would have asked a hundred questions, but she bent over him, enveloping him with a sudden nightfall of hair, to give him his good-night kiss, and departed.
Alexandra Bergson in O Pioneers!, Thea Kronborg in The Song of the Lark, Ántonia Shimerda in My Ántonia around these as girls and women the actions primarily revolve. It is not, however, as other Helens or Gudruns that they affect their universes; they are not the darlings of heroes but heroes themselves.
'Cheer up, my darlings, said Amos, who was the first to recover the sobriety of thought that usually characterised him 'cheer up all will yet he well; it is impossible that the unjust suspicion can long hover about us. A life of honesty and fair-dealing will not be without its reward.
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