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Elizabeth heard him settle himself in a rocking chair with a long-drawn breath of comfort. She was giving Jack little pats to ease him off to sleep and the house was very quiet.
It may be as wide as life, as high as imagination can lift itself; it may image to us a whole social state, though it pats in motion no more persons than we made the acquaintance of in one of the romances of Hawthorne. Consider for a moment how Thackeray produced his marvelous results. We follow with him, in one of his novels of society, the fortunes of a very few people.
The doctor said you must rest and not get excited." She smoothed the covers with little pats of her soft hands. "But what I want to know," he persisted, with a frown of perplexity, "is, where am I?" "You are all right," she soothed. "You are here." "But why am I here?" "Because. Now go to sleep like a good boy.
This was what the Captain, in Kensington Gardens, had done; her present situation reminded her a little of that one and renewed the dim wonder of the fashion after which, from the first, such pats and pulls had struck her as the steps and signs of other people's business and even a little as the wriggle or the overflow of their difficulties.
Charles did not know the man, but in his hand, all unconsciously, he carried a tract written by Marsden. Nothing interests an author like a copy of his own amusing works. Marsden gave the boy two pats on the head, a bun, a half-crown and three penny pamphlets on political economy.
Whereupon the judge gave vent to the one profane word in his vocabulary. Then Sandy, having confided so far, made a clean breast of it, breaking down at the end when he tried to describe Ruth's goodness and the sorrow his misery had caused her. When it was over the judge had hold of his hand and was bestowing large, indiscriminate pats upon his head and shoulders.
She laughed also who could have helped it? that laugh would have set silver bells ringing in responsive sympathy! and patted the lumpy thing which, odd as the fact might be, was also called a hand, with short little pecking pats; she did not altogether like touching so painful a degeneracy from the ideal.
"Why, you see, father," she replied, "it is three months since we got his last, and you know there has been no opportunity of forwarding letters from Stoney Creek since it was despatched. Now, the next opportunity that occurs-" "Mee-aow!" interrupted the cat, which had just finished two pats of fresh butter without being detected, and began, rather recklessly, to exult.
"He talks to me and pats me as if I were a dog," said Frank to himself; and he would have manifested his annoyance in some way to one who was doing his best, when fortunately there was a sharp rap at the door, and a familiar voice cried: "May I come in, doctor?" "No, sir, no. I'm particularly engaged. Oh, it's you, Murray! Mind his coming in, Gowan?"
There is a tiny dairy, which is called 'Her Grace's. You could make, therein, real butter with your own hands, and round it into little pats, and press every pat with a different device. The boudoir that would be yours is a blue room. Four Watteaus hang in it. In the dining-hall hang portraits of my forefathers in petto, your forefathers-in-law by many masters. Are you fond of peasants?
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