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"Yes, I do want something, but I know you will say it is silly," she began, as her father pinched her blooming cheek, with the wish that his peaches would ever look half as well. "Shouldn't wonder if it was a doll now;" and Mr. Grant stroked her head with an indulgent smile, as if she was about six instead of fifteen. "Why, father, you know I don't!
She stroked Drummond's hair, and asked if he was sure his throat was better, just as he was on the point of completing a difficult addition; she told her husband the tragic history of the cook's impertinence, and handed him a heavy bill, when the poor man was enjoying the first quiet rest of the day; she requested Mollie's advice about spare-room curtains at the moment when long-separated lovers were united, and it was agony to lift one's eyes from the page for the fraction of a second.
Dicky laughed softly. "I've had more fun for my money than most men of my height and hair " he stroked his beardless chin humorously. "And the best is to come, Yankee. This show is cracking. The audience are going to rush it." Renshaw laid a hand on his shoulder. "Pasha, to tell you God's truth, I wouldn't have missed this for anything; but what I can't make out is, why you brought me here.
A long tail of hair, which Arabella wore twisted up in an enormous knob at the back of her head, was deliberately unfastened, stroked out, and hung upon the looking-glass which he had bought her. "What it wasn't your own?" he said, with a sudden distaste for her. "Oh no it never is nowadays with the better class." "Nonsense! Perhaps not in towns. But in the country it is supposed to be different.
"Do you ever think of him, sir?" said Rake softly, with a lingering love in his voice, as he stroked the grays and tethered them. "Of whom?" "Of the King, sir. If he's alive, he's getting a rare old horse now." "Think of him! I wish I did not, Rake." "Wouldn't you like to see him agen, sir?" "What folly to ask! You know " "Yes, sir, I know," said Rake slowly.
Suddenly he broke down and burying his head in the bed-clothes began to sob as though his heart would break. "Oh! now ... after all this time ... you've wanted me ... and I never came ... and now to find you like this!" She stroked his hair very softly and waited until the sobs ceased. He sat up and fiercely brushed his eyes. "I won't be a fool any more. It shan't be too late. I'll make you live.
Her warm soft hands stroked his face. Her blue eyes, filled with the glory of the stars, looked up into his. "Kazan and she you and I and the baby! Are you sorry that we came back?" she asked. So close he drew her against his breast that she did not hear the words he whispered in the soft warmth of her hair. And after that, for many hours, they sat in the starlight in front of the cabin door.
These high walls could not protect us, nor the tearful mumble of the old woman's prayers, nor yet the careworn fidelity of Enrico. The couple hung about us, quivering with emotion. They peeped round the corners of the veranda, and only rarely ventured to come out openly. The silent Galician stroked his clipped beard; the obese woman kept on crossing herself with loud, resigned sighs.
So she went up to the cage, though with a faint heart; but the lion put his paw out of the bars, and stroked her face, as if he would bid her welcome. The keeper reported the fact with great surprise. It may be that the beautiful brown eyes of the lamb tamed the fierce spirit of the lion; for they were human eyes, full of Hildegarde's own soul.
I could not help reaching out my head toward him. He stroked my face kindly. "Well, old chap," he said, "I think we should suit each other. I'll give twenty-four for him." "Say twenty-five, and you shall have him." "Twenty-four then," said my friend, in a very decided tone, "and not another sixpence yes, or no?"
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