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I'll marry before your new old love can reach here, Governor." "Nay, when thou sayest 'Governor, I note that thou art ill pleased with somewhat, Myles. Is it with me?" "Nay, Will, 't is with thy words." And laughing in his own grim way the Captain left the house, and strode up the hill to solace his spirit by examining and petting his big guns.

"Oh, dear me, he did scare us so!" Betty rejoined, getting up out of the drift, trying to brush off her coat, and petting the exuberant dog at the same time. "But it is a dear and its master must be somewhere about, don't you think, Uncle Dick?" Its master was, for the next moment he appeared at the top of the bank down which the "wolf" had wallowed.

"Because petting is bad for young things, and because I wish it." "Oh, nonsense!" says Stephen, rather cavalierly, continuing his attention to the dog. "Look here," says Dare, furiously, "it has nothing to do with the dog, you will understand nothing but I want to tell you now what I think of you, you low, mean, contemptible " Gower literally gasps for breath.

Then he would straighten himself up in a way that made Lottie feel like laughing and crying at the same time, so great was his effort to patiently maintain his watch. At last he tried the expedient of going to the horses and petting them, but, before he knew it, he was leaning on the neck of one of them half asleep. Then Lottie saw him come directly toward her, and half closed her eyes.

As he scrambled heavily up from the water, his master and Robert seized him, and with much petting and patting and gentling, though there was little enough difficulty in managing him now, conducted him into the bedroom to the rest of the horses. There he was welcomed by his companions, and immediately began devouring the hay upon his master's bedstead.

Then he approached warily, and adopted conciliation; pursed up his lips and tried to whistle, but failed; still approached, saying, "Poor dog! doggy, doggy, doggy! poor doggy-dog!" Got up on the stoop, still petting with fond names; till master of the advantages; then exclaimed, "Leave, you thief!" planted a vindictive kick in his ribs, and went head-over-heels overboard, of course.

But you will remember always and always in your wanderings you will never be thinking of me, but just that I will be loving you somewhere," and with a great cry, "Have I no' loved ye can I ever be forgetting ye?" When Dan would have taken her to his heart, she sprang away, her eyes blazing. "Do not be petting me," she cries. "I am not a bairn to be quieted.

Mustard!" was the glad cry uttered by Tad Butler, as the dogs, yelping with joy at the sound of his voice, came bounding to him, while the ponies reared and plunged in the excess of their excitement. Tad leaped from his mount, petting and fondling the hounds, hugging them as they leaped upon him, and shouting at the top of his voice, as he heard still another shot on the other side of the hill.

All the hitching-posts along the streets would have horses tied to them, and inside, the house would be buzzing like a bee-hive with the chatter of that rustic gentry. Don Ramón would give them all a hearing, frowning gravely meanwhile, his chin on his bosom and one hand on the head of the little Rafael at his side a pose copied from a chromo of the Kaiser petting the Crown Prince.

We are going together to Luscombe the day after to-morrow, Sunday; just write a line to his uncle to prepare him for Tom's visit, and send thither his clothes, as we shall walk, and steal forth unobserved betimes in the morning. Now go up and talk to him; he wants a mother's soothing and petting. He is a noble fellow at heart, and we shall be all proud of him some day or other."