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I listened to his ardent declarations, submitted to his endearments. I grew to love him in my turn, and, oh! signora, I believed in him, trusted him. At that period I had nothing to reproach myself with, and Tonio, that was my admirer's name, seemed sincerity itself. One day he asked me to fly with him, but our conversation was interrupted and I gave him no answer.
As these endearments were public, she imagined they could not be suspected; but she was too well known for her real design to be mistaken.
He caressed the dying animal, who, faithful to the last, seemed to forget his own pain in the satisfaction he received from his master's presence, and continued wagging his tail and licking his hand, even while by low moanings he expressed that his agony was increased by the attempts which Sir Kenneth made to withdraw from the wound the fragment of the lance or javelin with which it had been inflicted; then redoubled his feeble endearments, as if fearing he had offended his master by showing a sense of the pain to which his interference had subjected him.
But Barby held tightly to the chain fastened to his collar, and Georgina, her precious pink parasol cast aside, knelt on the wharf beside the quivering, eager little body to clasp her arms about it and pour out a flood of comforting endearments. Wider and wider grew the stretch of water between the boat and the wharf.
He, however, mildly entreated of Ap'pius to be permitted to take a last farewell of a child whom he had at least considered as his own, and so satisfied, he would return to his duty with fresh alacrity. 24. Ap'pius granted the favour, upon condition that their endearments should pass in his presence. But Virgin'ius was then meditating a dreadful resolution.
'Yes, but if you promise before you go. Only say will you? A second 'darling' came to his lips more easily than the first. There were few endearments in Dick's home or school life; he had to find them by instinct. Dick caught the little hand blackened with the escaped gas of the revolver. 'I promise, she said solemnly; 'but if I care there is no need for promising.
"Acme," said he, as he parted the dry hair from the blackened brow, "do but speak to your own George! Be not angry with me, dearest!" He held the disgusting object to his lips, and lavished endearments on the putrid corpse. Delme staggered and Thompson supported him as he gasped for breath in the extremity of his agony. At this moment his eye caught the face of the Maltese.
Drawing her back, he held her in his arms, attempting to soothe and quiet her by murmured endearments. "I'm awfully sorry, dear," he explained. "I must go to town. Helen's sent for me." Tess nodded indifferently. It was all one to her now. She'd lost Boy, and she was willing to be alone to plan how she could punish his murderer. "I'll send Andy to you," said Young, leading her to a chair.
We agree at once with the sensible old gentleman her father, that no maid "So tender, fair, and happy, Would ever have to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as he." The sight of her endearments is nearly as horrid as those of Titania to Bottom are absurd.
I suppose that he had first slipped into it, meaning no harm, in the honeymoon, when folk find their ordinary stock of endearments run short, and so go to the other extreme to express their feelings. A similar impulse make's a man say: "Hutt, you old beast!" when a favorite horse nuzzles his coat-front.
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