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"I knew, the first glimpse I ever had of you scrambling from the canyon floor, that this transformation COULD take place. My good fortune is beyond words that I have been first to see it. Permit me, fair lady." Peter bent and kissed both her hands. He hesitated a second, then he turned the right hand and left one more kiss in its palm. "To have and to hold!" he said whimsically.
I was silent ... amused ... interested ... then "well, Granma'll tell me all about it when she comes ... and I can judge for myself, and," I added whimsically, "I suppose if they love each other it ought to be all right." And we both laughed. When Granma heard I was West she couldn't reach Antonville fast enough. She was the same dear childlike woman, only incredibly older-looking.
"I see." Then the girl smiled up into his face a little whimsically. "You men have a curious code of honor in your dealings with each other. Quite different to us women." Peter nodded. "Yep," he said, "we haven't the same perspective." The eastern horizon was lighting with a golden shadow and the sky-line was faintly silhouetted against it.
And she watched the little "lion" or lioness of the evening with keen interest and curiosity, whimsically vexed that it did not roar, snort, or make itself as noticeable as certain other animals of the literary habitat whom she had occasionally entertained. Just then a mirthful, mellow voice spoke close beside her. "Where is the new Corinne? The Sappho of the Leucadian rock of London?
It occurred to me at that moment, whimsically and yet somehow seriously, that I might respond to the appeal of the shy country road and the outstretched hands. At first I did not think of anything I could do save to go up and eat dinner with one of the hill farmers, which might not be an unmixed blessing! and then it came to me. "I will write a letter!"
"You may convince me next time without violence," she affirmed radiantly. As he watched her his large nostrils twitched whimsically. "You were saying that we might as well " "Go home to supper," she finished triumphantly. "The sun has set." When she left him a little later at the end of the avenue she flew joyously up the narrow walk.
He it was who had assisted in the fleecing of poor Braun, and the general consensus of opinion was that "he only got what was coming to him!" The code of the range is as drastic as it is simple. "It's up to you now to mother this goat, Miss Grace," he said whimsically; "I'll send a man in to Tin Cup to-morrow for a gunnysackful of any pap-maker you nominate.
It was like a gust of wind from a summer garden. The table, but now so bare, fairly sagged and steamed with offerings of Thanksgiving. Somehow the steam got into Eph's eyes and made them wet, till all he could do was to say whimsically: "There goes my last chance at a bread-and-milk Thanksgiving." But now Aunt Tildy had the floor, with her faded face all alight.
He told her, and then at a jealous look in her eyes he added an account of his excursion. He heightened, if anything, its difficulties, in making light of them as no difficulties for him, and at the end she said, gently: "Shall we go this morning?" "Let the doctor rest this morning, Nannie," her father interrupted, whimsically, but with what Lanfear knew to be an inner yielding to her will.
She rose instantly to the possibilities and said smoothly, swiftly, whimsically, with the accent of drollery, "I'm very particular about what sort of frying-pan I use.
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