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So as each man sank into his place, with a sigh for the long day's toil, he remarked "Fine night," looking far off at the horizon, and Uncle Hughie also examined that boundary, and remarked "Fine." As Jake Sawyer seated himself, and raised the youngest orphan to his knee, he added proudly, "An' a fine boy, too, eh, folks?" "Oh, yes, indeed!
Frank saw the movement, and the next instant he was down on one knee, kissing it, and rose to give the Princess a smile full of gratitude. At that moment he felt his shoulder heavily grasped by the Prince. "Good lad!" he said. "Go to your duties. I see I shall have in you a servant I can trust."
Well; I suppose you'd have had me smile at him, and tuck him up in bed to sleep off his headache, and give him a stick of candy? That wasn't my way. I reproved him. I chastised him. Perfectly proper. Perhaps unusual. He was twenty-four, and I laid him across my knee, and well; I got over it in fifteen minutes. I was, perhaps, hasty My temper in those days was not what it is now.
And there is one slight creature, Tom her child; not Ruth's whom thine eyes follow in the romp and dance; who, wondering sometimes to see thee look so thoughtful, runs to climb up on thy knee, and put her cheek to thine; who loves thee, Tom, above the rest, if that can be; and falling sick once, chose thee for her nurse, and never knew impatience, Tom, when thou wert by her side.
Well, he paraded up to us that day, hip action, knee action, and instep action all workin', stopped in front of us, folded his arms, an' sez, "Good sirs, I have conceived a fitting fete." "The only fate I expect is to go mad an' cut my own throat," sez Locals; but Hammy frowned an' went on in a scoldy, indignant voice.
And his soul all that was most really and truly him was agonizing in prayer for her before the God to whom he had prayed at his mother's knee, and whom she had taught him to look to as a friend and helper in all times of need. He did not even stop as he well might have done to think that the friend sought only in time of need might have reasonable ground for complaint of neglect at other times.
His royal robe, tight to the throat, with a broad band of gold, flowed to his feet; and at the fold gathered round the left knee, where now the kings of England wear the badge of St. George, was embroidered a simple cross . In that chamber met the thegns and proceres of his realm; but not they alone.
So much I can vouch for, though I don't know her so well, perhaps, as the rest of my family do." "Oh!" said Betty, drily, releasing her husband and crossing her small hands across her knee. "That means Miss Sewell isn't one of Mr. Watton's favourite cousins. You don't mind talking about your cousins, do you? You may blacken the character of all mine. Is she nice?" "Who Letty?
The relief of it was so exquisite and the experience was so rare, that she told it all with the abandonment of a child at its mother's knee, and with a degree of self-accusation that might well have disarmed condemnation, as indeed it did. Up to the time of her meeting with Horace in England, she kept back nothing, describing with absolute truth her feelings as well as her conduct.
Rebecca, set down in that low chair beside the board, and, Jane, you spread out her hair on it and cover it up with brown paper. Don't cringe, Rebecca; the worst's over, and you've borne up real good! I'll be careful not to pull your hair nor scorch you, and oh, how I'd like to have Alice Robinson acrost my knee and a good slipper in my right hand!
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