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Clare looked about for a stone, picked one up by the roadside, and went to the back of the cart, while Johnstone patted the mule's head, and busied himself with the buckles of the harness, bending low as he did so. Clare also bent down, trying to force the stone under the wheel, and did not notice that the carter was sitting up by the roadside, feeling for something in his pocket.
It made him restless, and half a dozen times, when the sledge stopped, he sniffed at the bit of humanity buried in the bearskin. Each time that he did this Joan was quickly at his side, and twice she patted his scarred and grizzled head until every drop of blood in his body leaped riotously with a joy which his body did not reveal.
The elephant came straight to him and touched him all over with outstretched trunk, just as mother-elephants do their calves, as if to assure himself of his man's safety. Dermot could have kissed the soft, snake-like proboscis, and he patted the animal affectionately and murmured his thanks to him. Badshah seemed to understand him and wrapped his trunk around his friend's shoulders.
What's up?" Jim sat down beside him on the edge of the cot, and the two men listened in amazement to the story the two children had to tell. When they had finished, Uncle Sam wasted no words. "Come with me to the Captain tooty sweet," he said. And Jim added, as he patted the Twins tenderly on the head, "By George, mes enfants, you ought to get the war cross for this day's work."
I sat on the stairs listening to the roar of London and the clock in the library. The doctor Matthews Duncan patted my head whenever he passed me on the stair and said, in his gentle Scotch accent: "'Poor little girl! Poor, poor little girl!
Maybe there's a little one up-stairs in the third story we could fix up comfy for her; but she's in the dark now, Jerry, and, my God! Jerry, she just couldn't stand an institution!" He patted her shoulder and drew her arm through his. "You lemme take care of that. She don't need to know nothing about it. We'll tell her we're sending her for a visit to the country for a while.
'Well done, Annie! said Kate, laughing as she patted the child's curls, but her eyes fell on the neglected apron, and seeing how crookedly it was being hemmed, she said: 'Oh, my dear, this is very bad; you must go back, undo all you have done this morning, and get it quite straight.
"What does that word mean?" Madison patted his head. "You tell him, Helena," he said and came and stood beside her. And so Helena told the boy in simple language as much of the Patriarch's story as she thought he could understand and when she had finished the boy's face was aglow. "And!" he said breathlessly, "and and did he ever do a really, truly-truly miracle?"
There was another silence. Then: "Don't I?" Keith asked, indifferently. He reached his hand out and patted hers, even holding it lightly for an instant. "I think I do. You don't think so?" "No." She merely framed the word, sighing. "You're wrong, Jenny." Keith's voice changed. He deliberately looked round the table at the little dishes that still lay there untouched.
"It is high time for me to quit the service after this," he remarked, when the King patted Pearce on the head, but did not even glance towards him. Of memorable days in English history, the 1st of June, 1794, stands justly prominent.
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