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The word recalled him to himself, and he got up and raised the lid of the cellaret, lovingly running his hand over the rows of bottles. "A pig would be better, I think," said the boy, doubtfully, "or a cow, if you could afford it. She is a poor woman, you know." "Afford it!" chuckled the Major. "Why, I'll sell your grandmother's silver, but I'll afford it, sir."
Before leaving him she pleaded: "Do not make much of my danger to mamma. She is nervous, and not over-fond of the country at best. You know that a good many people survive in the country," she concluded, with a smile that was so winning and disarming that he shook his head at her as he replied: "Well, Trurie, I foresee what a lovingly obstinate little girl you are likely to prove.
Cicely watched her lovingly, and every now and again Julian Adderley, waving away the smoke of his own cigar with one hand, studied her face and tried to fathom its expression. She spoke but little, and that chiefly to Lord Charlemont who was on her left-hand side. "And how long are you going to stay in this jolly old place, Miss Vancourt?" he asked.
Had I not taken writing-lessons secretly, and formed a thorough business-hand, and would I not earn many half-eagles with my eagle's quill? But then, hand in hand we were to have toiled, hopefully, smilingly, lovingly, not with this cold recrimination, nor, hardest of all, with reproach! Suddenly, a strange suspicion fell over me. It fell down on me like a pall. I shuddered with the cold of it.
"How to remember she, ma fuifre!" said Jean Touzel. "But go on to the news of her." Maitresse Aimable spread the letter out and looked at it lovingly. Her voice rose slowly up like a bubble from the bottom of a well, and she spoke. "Ah man pethe benin, when it come, you are not here, my Jean. I take it to the Greffier to read for me.
Just now she was absorbed in a mental discussion with herself regarding what would be the most acceptable and appropriate gift she could offer each one, to attest her appreciation of their united kindness and unrivaled hospitality in taking her so lovingly into their household for the long vacation.
She shook her head at him, pleasantly, softly, and lovingly, but still with a settled purpose of contradiction. "I have admitted all along," he continued, "that low birth " "I have said nothing of low birth!"
'Dark, with large, hard hands, he had said; and Jerrie with the great tears shining in her eyes, had answered, indignantly: 'But hard and black as they were, they always touched me gently and tenderly, and sometimes I believe I can remember just how lovingly and carefully they wrapped the old cloak around me to keep me warm. Dear mother, what do I care how black she was, and coarse.
But it is not at these formidable volumes that I am laughing. I would not dare. I glance at them with reverential awe, and am more than half afraid of them. Then, again, there are other books that I bought because I felt that I needed them. And so I did, more than perhaps I guessed when I bore them proudly home. Glorious times I have had with them. I look up at them gratefully and lovingly.
Can you understand such a feeling? None of my colleagues can; their minds are in France, and they complain of a colonial exile, as if Tunisia were the Devil's Island; they call me an enthusiast, because I think well of this warm, palpitating soil in which I seem, I don't know how, to have struck deep roots." And he gazed lovingly over the sea of glossy palm-tops, down yonder, on our right.
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