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After the rest had gone on and in, he slithered down to the ground and told Theresa, who was still standing by the door, that she didn't look the size of a bit of a lady-bird beside the soldier fellow.
To strengthen my fixity I would often overwhelm myself, and her, with muttered opprobriums, calling myself 'convict, her 'lady-bird'; asking what manner of man was I that I should dare so great a thing; and as for her, what was she to be the Mother of a world? a versatile butterfly with a woman's brow! And continually now in my fiercer moods I was meditating either my death or hers.
As he sat down he said in English also, with a laugh and with snapping eyes: "Good Lord, what brings you here, lady-bird?" As she pushed a chair under him she whispered through his hair: "You!" and then was gone away to fetch pea-soup for six hungry men. The Louis Quinze did more business now in three months than it had done before in six.
Whereat I looked sorrowful enough, I doubt not, for he did bid me take heart, as my first-born might have had a hare-lip or a crook-back. Then did he toss me his bridle-reins, and my lady, having heard his voice, came forth to meet him. "So, lady-bird!" quoth he, clasping her. "I am come for no less than three reasons this time. First, to see thy bonny face. Second, to ride thy bonny Robin.
If Dinky-Dunk, when I was so imperially dismissing him from his own home, had only up and said: "Look here, Lady-bird, this is as much my house as it is yours, you feather-headed little idiot, and I'll put a June-bug down your neck if you don't let me stay here!"
"Do you suppose your father would know?" asked Louise of Polly. "Let's take it in the house and ask him, and so settle whether it is bug or beetle." And they came running into the sitting room behind the store to show the lady-bird to Polly's father, who was there looking over his paper. "Is it a bug or a beetle?" they asked. He laid down the paper and looked at the pretty little insect a moment.
As he sat down he said in English also, with a laugh and with snapping eyes: "Good Lord, what brings you here, lady-bird?" As she pushed a chair under him she whispered through his hair: "You!" and then was gone away to fetch pea-soup for six hungry men. The Louis Quinze did more business now in three months than it had done before in six.
There is also a great variety of wild pigeons, blue, gray, and white; the English lady-bird, with a blue head, scarlet breast, and green and white back; the indigo-bird, the golden-winged woodpecker, the ibis, and many smaller species, like the humming-bird.
Thumbelina had to sing to him, so she sang 'Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home! and other songs so prettily that the mole fell in love with her; but he did not say anything, he was a very cautious man.
Not less tender and fond than before, his sportive fancy indulged in infinite expressions of playful humour and delicate pranks of love. When he first recognised her gathering a nosegay, too, for him, himself unobserved, he stole behind her on tiptoe, and suddenly clasping her delicate waist, and raising her gently in the air, 'Well, lady-bird, he exclaimed, 'I, too, will pluck a flower!
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