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His hand was on her hair, stroking, fondling, caressing. She nestled closer, without lifting her face. "You don't know me in the least. I'm not a bit nice really. I get up to all sorts of pranks. I'm wild and flighty. Ask Aunt Philippa if you want to know." "I know you better than Aunt Philippa, dear," he said. "Oh no, you don't. You've only seen my good side.

I suld hae been shearin', but my mither wad fain hae a day o' the hairst. She thocht it wud du her gude. 'Ye maun hae had a sair time o' 't, than. 'Ay, some. But I aye got some sleep. But whiles naething wad du but tak him till 's mammie. All the time she was hushing and fondling the child, who went on fretting when not actually crying. 'Is he yer brither, than? asked Robert. 'Ay, what ither?

I followed clean across that strip of Barren down to the timber, and it was there that Bram built himself the fire. I could see him then, and I swear by the Blessed Virgin that it was Bram! Long ago, before he killed the man, he came twice to my cabin and he had not changed. And around him, in the fire-glow, the wolves huddled. It was then that I came to my reason. I could see him fondling them.

The child had vanished for a moment, but speedily reappeared, fondling her precious doll, which, it is needless to say, had not been sold. Holding it out to the captain, she said in her liveliest manner: "Here is Jeanne, uncle! You remember her? Give her a kiss directly! Don't you think that she has grown?" The Queer Side of Things Among the Freaks.

He was fondling a cat which had cuddled itself upon his knees, and did not seem to mind me. I took a walk around the ruins, one portion of which covered over and shut in by means of branches, straw, grass and stones, was inhabited by him, and I made my way towards the place which he occupied. The view here is splendid.

"Blessings on him!" exclaimed she, starting back: she then dropped down on her knees to thank God. Then calling me by every fondling name that nurses use to their children, she begged my forgiveness, and alternately cursed herself and prayed for me.

And Edgar, being a man, was therefore open to female flattery, whether it was the frank flattery of an infant Venus hugging a waxen Cupid or the more subtle overtures of a withered Ninon taking God for her latest lover with interludes. "But you should like Leam too," he said, fondling her, "I want you to love me, but you should love her as well."

'Tom' is not an ordinary name for a dog, though it is common enough for a man." "Nobody, not even the person most concerned, would know if I were to call him 'Son, the termination of 'Robinson, you know," explained May, after a moment spent in concocting this subtle amendment, and in fondling the unconscious recipient of a title which was to distinguish him from the mass of dogs.

He did not apologize for his protracted absence, nor insist upon conveying his physician to the sick-chamber; but he chatted for five minutes or thereabouts upon such topics as he knew would entertain the captious invalid, and finally arose from the bed-side, where he had been sitting, fondling her hot hands, with a good-humored laugh.

The sea will divide us from pursuers, myrtle groves will conceal our fondling, and gods, more compassionate toward lovers, will watch over our happiness." "Aha-a! aha-a!" The prince dropped his eyelids and imagined. Through his drooping lashes he could not see the garden, he saw only the flood of moonlight in which were mingled shadows and the song of the unknown man to the unknown woman.