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"His name was David Burke. When he was a little boy I suppose his mother used to call him Davy. He wasn't bad then; just a little boy to be cuddled and petted. Perhaps he was married. Perhaps he had a sweetheart waiting for him outside, and praying for him. And they snuffed his life out as if he had been a rattlesnake." "Because he was a miscreant and it was best he shouldn't live.
He had miles of it at Wrenfield his big kitchen-garden was surrounded by blinking battalions of green-houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown early melons and late, French, English, domestic dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour and variety. They were petted and nursed like children a staff of trained attendants waited on them.
It is just large enough to hold four persons with ease, our mother and myself, your aunt, whom by that time we shall have petted into good humour; and if we can coax Ardworth there, the best good fellow that ever lived, I think our party will be complete.
Snap! here! come here, darling, to your mistress, and be petted!" In spite of this eloquent appeal Snap, the baby jackal, only growled pleasantly and whisked his brush right and left. "You see," she went on, "your sponsorship has had no very good results. He will not obey any more than you yourself."
The first steps taken were in the direction of the hero's personal comfort. He was flattered and petted, as his sister knew how to flatter and pet him; and Miss Penge in a quiet way assisted Lady Penwether in the operation. For a day or two he had not much to say for himself; but every word he did say was an oracle.
Oh, I would die for him be torn in pieces for him now, this moment!.... Wulf was silent. 'What have I done but love him? What could I wish but to make him happy? I was rich enough, praised, and petted;.... and then he came,.... glorious as he is, like a god among men among apes rather and I worshipped him: was I wrong in that? I gave up all for him: was I wrong in that?
Mísha had managed his estate for so short a time that he had not succeeded in leaving behind him a specially good memory of himself; but the old servitor had not been able to resist, nevertheless, and on hearing of his young master's arrival, he had immediately hastened to the churchyard, had found Mísha seated on the ground among the mortuary stones, had begged leave to kiss his hand in memory of old times, and had even melted into tears as he gazed at the rags wherewith the once petted limbs of his nursling were swathed.
I was glad and grateful to learn that. I have seen it often since, when I have gone to Orleans on the 8th of May to be the petted old guest of the city and hold the first place of honor at the banquets and in the processions I mean since Joan's brothers passed from this life.
But to-day, in her bitter grief, she sank down on the nearest chair, and allowed them all to crowd round her, and cried bitterly, and took little Orion in her arms and kissed him and petted him, and begged of each child to forgive her for ever having been cross or disagreeable, and promised, as well and as heartily as she could, never to transgress again in that manner as long as she lived.
"Well, my dear Edouard proved a hero; as no one else defended the coach, he did. He took the conductor's pistols and fired." "Brave boy!" exclaimed Roland. "Yes, but, unluckily or luckily the conductor had taken the precaution to remove the bullets. Edouard was praised and petted by the Companions of Jehu as the bravest of the brave; but he neither killed nor wounded them."
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