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Obediently as a child, he supped the wholesome draught, and when he had drained the last spoonful, she kissed him hurriedly on the brow and bustled out again, smiling pleasantly, and telling her guardian he was "a real good boy." When the door had closed upon her, Henry Rayne, turning to Vivian, said half sadly. "She is the sweetest girl under the sun, I think my heart would break without her."
She hasn't inveigled me or set her cap at me, as you call it, in any way; she's the sweetest, timidest, most shrinking little thing that ever existed; on the contrary, it is I who have humbly asked her to accept me, because I know no other woman to whom I could give my whole heart so unreservedly.
"Well, you needn't be," retorted Alexia; "she's very fond of me, Miss Salisbury is, and I don't in the least know what she'd do if I left her school. But I never shall go away, for I just dote on her." "It looks like it," said Pickering, with a laugh. "Well, I do," declared Alexia; "she's my very sweetest friend, except Polly Pepper, so there!" "Oh, dear me!
Kendrick addressed herself to her prayers and to slumber; but Kitty lay awake a long time, thinking and thinking, until finally her thoughts became the substance of youth's sweetest dreams. BUT why should the tender dreams of this pure heart be transcribed here?
"I was just teaching her to fight," he said humbly. "You looked like it!" she replied, with the scorn that comes occasionally to the sweetest lady. He tried to comfort her in various tender ways, but none of them sufficed this time, "You'll marry her as soon as you're a man," she insisted, and she would not let this tragic picture go.
Pleasure became her torment, for the sweetest wine is repulsive when it has been tasted by impure lips. After every feast and spectacle he loaded her with outrageous reproaches, and when at last, weary of such treatment, she refused to quit the house, he obliged her nevertheless to accompany him as often as the Legate Quintillus desired it.
'Perhaps, said he; 'but then, you see, we are not all pretty and good, like you. I'm sorry you won't take the money. I hope you are not offended at me for offering it; and William adjusted his eye-glass, looking his sweetest at the young person standing before him.
But then, one would want never to die, and when one is really OLD, like me, one must hold oneself ready for anything. I embrace you tenderly, so does Maurice. Aurore is the sweetest and the most ridiculous person. Her father makes her drink while he says: Dominus vobiscum! then she drinks and answers: Amen! How she is getting on! What a marvel is the development of a little child!
Suppose I should lose you life would be an utter blank after that; I have no one in the world but you." McKay was greatly touched by this proof of her deep-seated affection. "It is only for a little while longer, my sweetest girl! Be patient and hopeful to the end. By-and-by we shall come together, never to part again." "I am weak, foolish too loving, perhaps.
At the edge of the larch-wood where they sat, were growing numbers of little mountain pinks, with fringed edges and the sweetest scent imaginable; and she got up presently to gather them. But he stayed where he was, and odd sensations stirred in him. The blue of the sky, the feathery green of the larch-trees, the mountains, were no longer to him what they had been early that morning.
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