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Have no fear, I will watch my opportunity, and serve him in the manner I think he needs it most." Brogard had come down the steps again, and Marguerite was ready to go up to her safe retreat. "I dare not kiss your hand, madam," said Sir Andrew, as she began to mount the steps, "since I am your lacquey, but I pray you be of good cheer.
I want him to know that I feel that way." When David read that throbbing letter, he grew scarlet to his temples. There had been many moments during their engagement when Elizabeth, in slighter ways, had bared her soul to him, and always he had had the impulse to cover his eyes, as in a holy of holies. He had never, in those moments, dared to take advantage of such divine nakedness, even by a kiss.
I was standing alone before the fire, when Dora came stealing softly in, to give me that usual precious little kiss before I went. 'Don't you think, if I had had her for a friend a long time ago, Doady, said Dora, her bright eyes shining very brightly, and her little right hand idly busying itself with one of the buttons of my coat, 'I might have been more clever perhaps?
And hers was the sovereign beauty. Mathieu could think of only one thing that would express everything, and that was to kiss her with all his heart before the whole assembly. "There, dear wife! You are the most beautiful and the best! May all the others do as you have done." Then, when Marianne had gloriously returned his kiss, there arose an acclamation, a tempest of merry laughter.
While I sat and wondered, father came, took me in his loving arms and carried me to mother's room, where she lay in a tent-bed, with blue foliage and blue birds outlined on the white ground of the curtains, like the apple-boughs on the blue and white sky. The cover was turned down, and I was permitted to kiss a baby-sister, and warned to be good, lest Mrs.
I've some work to get through, so I'll say good-night to you, Karen dear." She rose with a curious automatic obedience, and, coming to him, lifted her forehead, like a child, for his kiss. Her face showed, perhaps, a bleak wonder, but it showed no softness. She might be bewildered by this sudden change in their relation, but she was not weakened. She went away, softly closing the door behind her.
He held out his arms, and his son threw himself on his breast and imprinted a long, fervent kiss upon his lips. Long did Count Schwarzenberg clasp him to his heart, then took the young man's head between both his hands and looked at him with loving, tender glances. Finally, with a singular expression of embarrassment, he bent down and kissed his eyes.
Accordingly, the good lady bundled up her darlings in woollen jackets and wadded sacks, and put comforters round their necks, and a pair of striped gaiters on each little pair of legs, and worsted mittens on their hands, and gave them a kiss apiece, by way of a spell to keep away Jack Frost.
"This is certainly a most remarkable case, Craig," I said, introducing him, and telling briefly what I had learned. "And you actually mean to say that a kiss had the effect " Just then the telephone interrupted. "Yes," she reasserted quickly. "Excuse me a second." She answered the call. "Oh why yes, he's here. Do you want to speak to him? Mr. Jameson, it's the Star." "Confound it!"
"Gone down stairs; but he said he'd be back in a few minutes to have his bit of chat with you in our sitting-room." "Then I'll just kiss you good night and hurry back to get ready for him." When the captain came he found Lulu ready and waiting for him, seated by the fire with her Bible open in her hand.
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