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During the morning, in the intervals between interviews with the superintendents, he was self-absorbed, and she found herself inconsistently resenting the absence of those expressions of endearment the glances and stolen caresses for indulgence in which she had hitherto rebuked him: and though pride came to her rescue, fuel was added to her feeling by the fact that he did not seem to notice her coolness.
Then she came to the edge of the landing-stage and cried quietly, all alone in that vast crowd, now and then calling broken words of endearment to the man who stood a dozen yards away from her across the strip of black water. Discipline is heavy, and crushes; it is also sharp, and sometimes cuts cruelly and deeply.
And I may make bold to say that my daughter and my wife, sir are not exceptions to the er, rule." "I don't quite understand," said Lyman. "I mean, sir, that what at one time might have been distasteful may have become a er matter of endearment, you understand." "I don't know that I do," the cruel tormenter replied. "A woman's nature is a peculiar thing a romantic thing, I might almost say.
She was silent, and clung to him with a reluctant eagerness. He kissed her again and again, on a still mouth, but soon her lips answered his desire. It grew constantly darker, the silvery vistas shortened, grew blurred, trees merged into indistinguishable gloom. Lettice murmured a shy, unaccustomed endearment.
She has pinched all the younger children, and bent the bonnets of all the older ones. We hope to see an amendment soon, or we do not know what we shall do." "Why did they call you Little Frisk?" inquired Katy, after she had recovered from the laugh which Rose's reminiscences called forth. "It was a term of endearment, I suppose; but somehow my family never seemed to enjoy it as they ought.
He laid his hand upon her bent head. "Because you are the salt of the earth to me," he said; "because I worship you." She caught the hand with a little sound of passionate endearment, and laid her face down in it, her hot, quivering lips against his palm. "I love you so!" she said. "I love you so!" He pressed her face slowly upwards. But she resisted. "No, no! I can't meet your eyes."
His eyes were heavy and vacant, his forehead low and retiring, his cheeks sallow, and his form curved as if with a premature old age. An unmeaning smile dilated his thin, colourless lips; and as he looked down on his strange favourites, he occasionally whispered to them a few broken expressions of endearment, almost infantine in their simplicity.
In a caress I shall cancel all the past since his accident. So long as I can hold him I don't care." Her soul dissolved in softness towards him; even the body seemed to melt also, till, instead of being a strong, sturdy girl, she was a living tentacular endearment and naught else. But when, with disconcerting quickness, he came into the room, she hardened again in spite of herself.
The papers with the letter were a will, leaving her all, and a power of attorney, allowing her to dispose of or use the money in the bank. Not a line of endearment or love for that faithful heart that lived on love, asked only for love, and cared for little else. That Christmas was a day of fasting and prayer for us.
His was the stolidity of an oak, tickled rather than assailed by a bright-eyed woodpecker. "Little woman" he liked to call her in his nearest approach of endearment, although it must have been her petite quickness rather than a diminutive quality that earned the appellation.
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