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I don't want to remember her with a cold." And the thought, "I shan't be here to see her get well," had pained him acutely. "I'm looking and feeling glazed, dee-ar," had been her greeting to him. "My nose is shiny and my mind is woolly. I don't think you ought to kiss me or talk to me." And then he had kissed her, and they had talked, intimately, sincerely.
"Par made, that's one way of putting it!" commented the apprentice, "for what mourners was there but Ma'm'selle herself, and she quiet as a mice, and not a teardrop, and all the island necks end to end for look at her, and you, master, whispering to her: 'The Lord is the Giver and Taker, and the Femme de Ballast t'other side, saying 'My dee-ar, my dee-ar, bear thee up, bear thee up thee."
Even as Dion realized this, his mother was poured back into the round face and plump figure beside the fire, and greeted him with the usual almost saccharine sweet smile, and: "Dee-ar, I wasn't expecting you to-day. How is the beloved one?" "The beloved one" was Mrs. Leith's rendering of Rosamund. "How particularly spry you look," she added. "I'm certain it's the Jenkins paragon.
Shot after shot the twelve-pounders of the Frenchman drove like dun hail at the white timbers of the yacht, and her masts and spars were flying. The privateer now came drawing down to where she lay lurching. A hand touched Guida upon the shoulder. "Cheer thee, my dee-ar," said Maitresse Aimable's voice.
"I mean do they concentrate on the child a long while before it comes." "Many smart women certainly don't." "Oh, smart women! I mean women." "A good definition, dee-ar. Well, lots of poor women don't concentrate on the child either. They have far too much to do and worry about. They are 'seeing to' things up till the very last moment." "Then we must rule them out.
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