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He leant over her chair and assailed her with questions to which no answer came, to which no answer was possible, punctuating his periods with kisses. "Are you a conundrum? Or a fiend? Or a metaphysical system? And if so, why do you wear a pink frock! Are you a young woman who prefers a dead poet to a living husband? Are you a young woman at all?
Were I to say I was carried beyond myself by her protestations of gratitude until, in a delirium of joy, I seized her in my arms and covered her with kisses, do you for a moment fancy you could appreciate my feelings?
And if Flossie did not understand the drift of these remarks at least she seemed to understand the kisses that punctuated them. But before very long he obtained more light on the Beaver's logic, and owned that it was singularly sound. They managed to put in a great many nice walks between that Sunday and Christmas.
This cry of the rough man is unexpected, and grandiose as the voice of ancient tragedians chanting the threnody of a hero. Then he drops his helmet, throws himself on his knees beside the death-bed, takes the dead face between his hands and kisses it gently and slowly with a little sound of the lips, as one kisses a baby's hand. I take him by the arm and lead him away.
She is twirling the sticky brown pill over the lamp, preparing to fill the bowl of her pipe with it. As she does so, the sunbeam dances across the bed, kisses the red spot on her cheek that betrays the secret her tyrant long has known, though to her it is hidden yet that the pipe has claimed its victim and soon will pass it on to the Potter's Field.
Not less beautiful and concentrated are those few words on woman's love in "Middlemarch": "Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll, creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her own love."
Then the girls laughed at him, for I think in their hearts they were vexed because he had not taken their kisses at least, most of them; for I have it in mind that Brigitta was content with my kissing and none other. But Guido was not to be downed by their laughter. "This is not an hour old," he said. "You should all be at the Signory.
"Deign this evening to bless in thought your daughter, my dear father. To-morrow she will be the bride of the Lord. "She kisses your hand with pious respect. This letter, which I could not read without shedding tears, reassured me, however, but little; I, too, must pass a sad evening.
Good-night! What, no kiss, even for good-night?" he said, as she recoiled from his offered salute. "No. I reserve my kisses for my husband," she answered archly. Thus this evil woman, steeped to the lips in sin, affected the prude with the man she wished to secure. And while making and receiving the most ardent protestations of love, disallowed the very slightest caress.
Come. I must lock this thing up. I have an interview here with Spaulding in about ten minutes." She gave it up reluctantly, kissing it much as she had kissed him during their engagement; warm, lingering, but almost impersonal kisses. The ruby seemed miraculously to have restored her beaten youth. She sat on the edge of a chair as he opened the safe and placed the jewel in its box and drawer.
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