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They talked of all sorts of things, or rather, as he said to himself, they babbled, for real talk could hardly be so discursive, so aimless, so merely merry. She made him think of a child playing with a lapful of flowers; that was what her talk was like.
She flicked a lapful of crumbs on to the floor, and pranced away with her light, dancing step. Geoffrey watched her from the doorway, saw her squeeze herself into the corner of the lounge on which the Duchess was seated, and gaze into her face with the broadest of broad beaming smiles, while the great lady, in her turn, put up a lorgnon and stared back in amazed curiosity.
And you should see him shake and worry that around the room. Almost as good as a vaudeville act until I discovers that he's gnawed a hole clear through the toe. "Gosh!" says I. "My favorite slipper, too." At four months he was no longer a handful. He was a lapful, and then some.
Did he seem dejected, Catherine would steal out and spend a week's income on the lapful of toys which she brought home. Did he seem a shade more pale did he complain of the slightest ailment, a doctor must be sent for. Alas! her own ailments, neglected and unheeded, were growing beyond the reach of medicine.
At this bitter sight Maimie stopped blankly, as if all her lapful of darling treasures were suddenly spilled, and then for very disdain she could not sob; in a swell of protest against all puling cowards she ran to St. Govor's Well and hid in Tony's stead. When the ayah reached the gate and saw Tony far in front she thought her other charge was with him and passed out.
But if they refuse to abase themselves before money, they would doubtless abase the foe. Thus it was better for them to stand erect in valour than be grovelling in greed; with their souls not sinking into covetousness, but up and doing for renown. In the battle they would have to use not gold but swords." As the king ended, a British knight, shewing them all his lapful of gold, said: "O King!
Sponge to be shown into the drawing-room to them, where they had composed themselves very prettily; one working a parrot in chenille, the other with a lapful of crochet. The Miss Jawleyfords Amelia and Emily were lively girls; hardly beauties at least, not sufficiently so to attract attention in a crowd; but still, girls well calculated to 'bring a man to book, in the country. Mr.
"Well; bring a lapful of chips, quick; and then any dry sticks you can find. We can get on twice as fast with a light; and then they will see from the house how we manage." In a few minutes, there was a fire blazing near the tree.
Some two months later than the date of young Marvell's midnight vigil, Mrs. Heeny, seated on a low chair at Undine's knee, gave the girl's left hand an approving pat as she laid aside her lapful of polishers. "There!
Laughing, Paolo turned to Maria who had sat quietly all the while, fondling the feathered creatures in her lap. "How about you, little one? Would you, too, like a pigeon of your own?" "No," she answered shyly, "I love them all too much." And the soft coo, coo-oo-oo from the lapful of birds seemed appreciative of her words.
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