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The colleagues went to bed the best friends in the world, reminding each other of Valerie's perfections, the tones of her voice, her kittenish way, her movements, her fun, her sallies of wit, and of affections; for she was an artist in love, and had charming impulses, as tenors may sing a scena better one day than another.
And the feathered Santa, apparently having no objection to this rële finding himself no longer a waif in Babel finally settled down again on the glittering head-rail of Una's cot, his fluffy breast to the outdoor sunlight, his solemn, kittenish face the head turning round on a pivot without the movement of a muscle in the body confronting sagely the delighted girls. "Isn't he the dearest thing?
It would look silly on such a little goat as that Wade Trumble, though: nothing could make him look like a whole man. Did you see him glaring at me? Beast! I was going to be so nice and kittenish and do all my prettiest tricks for him, to help Val with his oil company.
"Ellen!" repeated the squire; "I'm not going to call the child anything so formal. Fluff she always was and will be with me a kittenish creature with a kittenish name; I used to tell her so, and I expect I shall again." "You forget that she has just lost her mother," said Frances. "They loved each other dearly, and you can not expect her not to be changed.
I could not see that the freakish, kittenish creatures did anything to claim our admiration, but they won our affection by every trait of ponyish caprice and obstinacy.
And she proposed that we should go round a little together she said that she had been here so many times, that she felt she could offer herself as our "Sissy Roney." She looked at Josiah as she spoke kinder kokettish, and I thought to myself, You are a-actin' pretty kittenish for a woman of your age. "Sissy!"
Her strong hold was the majestic. She appeared to have it fixed she wanted to be kittenish. That was the way it seemed to me. But Kreps studied her mornings and afternoons and into the night, and day after day it went on, and she bothered him. Then he saw he was on the wrong tack, and put his helm about, and he says: "She is de Ewigweibliche. She is not science. She is boetry.
If it is a merit to treat a fatuous mother with deference, Bittridge had that merit. His deference was of the caressing and laughing sort, which took the spectator into the joke of her peculiarities as something they would appreciate and enjoy with him. She had been a kittenish and petted person in her youth, perhaps, and now she petted herself, after she had long ceased to be a kitten.
Ben was appointed judge, with a large man, apparently a stranger in the town, who was chosen by Norris, and the two selected a third. The third man was a stranger to Ben, but he picked him out of the crowd, and the other judge accepted him. As Stella climbed into the saddle, Hatrack gave two or three kittenish jumps, and the crowd yelled.
She tossed her head with the air of one who has said something conclusive. The man held his peace for a moment, dumfounded. Then he laughed heartily, with head thrown back. "That's what comes of a kittenish hoyden for a mistress. Abroad too early, dame, and strong ale before sunrise! These have stolen away your wits and made ye hold strange discourse.
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