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He had stroked her rich hair, caressed her body, and told her it was all a prearranged political scheme to cast the blame as much as possible on him and make it as light as possible for Stener and the party generally. He would come out of it all right, he said, but he cautioned her not to talk. He did not deny his long and profitable relations with Stener. He told her exactly how it was.
Frederick stroked Ingigerd's hand. "All due respect to Achleitner, but if I mourn single victims of that fearful night, I first think of the heroes of the Roland, Captain von Kessel, his mate, Von Halm, and all those picked braves who really died like great men fulfilling their duty. They are a loss to the world.
'Poor little kit! said Rosalie, as she stroked it gently; 'you don't know where you are. The kitten purred contentedly when its little mistress comforted it, and the child was at leisure to look round the room. It was her Cousin May's little room; and her Aunt Lucy had said she might sleep there until another room just like it was made ready for her.
The old clerk looked at him from above and below his spectacles, shrugged his shoulders, stroked his chin, reascended his lofty stool, took the pen from behind his ears, and resumed his daily and eternal task, copying records into the fiftieth volume of a series of gigantic folios.
But seizing her opportunity another time, she would ask him to try the experiment on a piece of the ground, so pleasantly and skilfully, that Earl could do nothing but shut his mouth and obey, like an animal fairly stroked into good humour. And as Fleda always forgot to remind him that she had been right and he wrong, he forgot it too, and presently took to the new way kindly.
As for Bannon, he stroked and praised them in an ecstasy of self-vindication, and was refusing the van man's offer to buy them at "a hundred dollars apiece more than they cost."
"It's a gal, Ma," said Seth. He too was smiling. "Gracious, boy, guess I've got two eyes in my head!" There was a long pause. Ma fingered the silken curls. Then she took one of the cold hands in hers and stroked it softly. "Where where did you git her?" she asked at last. "The Injuns. I shot Big Wolf yesterday. They're on the war-path." "Ah."
Taken by surprise Satan tried to rid himself of his burden, but the rider sat firm, leaned far over the steed's neck, stroked his head again, pressed his flanks and, after the lapse of a few minutes, guided him merely by the pressure of his thighs first at a walk, then at a trot over the track.
Stiger thought that I might better come here," and he delivered his mother's message in a low voice and resumed his seat again. The Colonel, now that his mind was at rest, dropped into a chair, stroked his goatee with his thumb and forefinger, and ran over in his mind the sum of his engagements.
In the night Noodle would go down to the shed or field where it lay, and whistle to it, trying to put forth notes of the same magical power as those which came through the farmer's lips. But no sound that came from his lips ever stroked life into its silver sides. The year was nearly run out, and Noodle was in despair. Then he remembered the firestone ring, the Sweetener.
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