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"I've made you ever so much trouble, Mrs. Higby," said Phronsie, in a penitent little voice, and enjoying to the fullest extent the petting she was receiving. "And I'm so sorry." "Trouble!" exploded the farmer's wife, smoothing Phronsie's yellow hair with her large red hands, "the land! it's only a sight of comfort you've been. Why, I've just set by you!"
Over Lena she crooned and hovered, petting and coddling her, and longing to speak some words of hope and comfort, but not daring to do so lest she should betray herself and the dishonorable way in which she had become possessed of the child's secret.
Blair whistled, upon which Elizabeth became absorbed in petting her dog, kissing him ardently between his eyes. "I hate to see a girl kiss a dog," Blair observed; "'Sing Polly-wolly-doo " "Don't look, then," said Elizabeth, and kissed Bobby again. Blair sighed, and gave up his song.
Is it worth it, darling?" "Kiss me too," said His Majesty the King, dreamily. "You isn't vevy angwy, is you?" The fever burned itself out, and His Majesty the King slept. When he waked, it was in a new world peopled by his father and mother as well as Miss Biddums: and there was much love in that world and no morsel of fear, and more petting than was good for several little boys.
Feliu's was not a joyous nature; he had his dark hours, his sombre days; yet it was rarely that he felt too sullen to yield to the little one's petting, when she would leap up to reach his neck and to coax his kiss, with "Dame un beso, papa! asi; y otro! otro! otro!" He grew to love her like his own; was she not indeed his own, since he had won her from death?
I always had suffered to some extent with neuralgic headaches, inherited no doubt from my mother, who was a great sufferer, and with the advent of the rheumatism these headaches became more frequent and severe. I did not regard the trouble seriously and I so enjoyed the fond nursing and petting of my wife that the pain brought its own recompense.
It was a matter of principle and conscience. He felt that the ill done White Fang was a debt incurred by man and that it must be paid. So he went out of his way to be especially kind to the Fighting Wolf. Each day he made it a point to caress and pet White Fang, and to do it at length. At first suspicious and hostile, White Fang grew to like this petting.
And he had such lovable, illogical, masculine ways of being wronged if he didn't get the requisite amount of petting, and grateful for foolish little favors and taking big ones for granted, that entirely, as Phyllis insisted to herself, from a sense of combined duty and grateful interest she would have had her pretty head removed and sent him by parcel-post, if he had idly suggested his possible need of a girl's head some time.
He rode his pony mercilessly for a mile or so, then pulled up, and began to talk pettingly to him, which I doubt if the little creature found consoling, for love only makes petting worth anything, and the love here was not much to the front. About halfway home, he had to ford a small stream, or go round two miles by a bridge.
Softly, exquisitely lovely was that little girl; and every day she increased in the charm of her person, and in the caressing fascination of her childish ways. Her temper was so sweet and docile, that fondness and petting, however injudiciously exhibited, only seemed yet more to bring out the colours of a grateful and tender nature.
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