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I believe there's no one who can approach him with more tact than my daughter Lana." Despeaux found an opportunity to dig his thumb suggestively into Blanchard's side. "They have been extremely good friends, I believe, in boy-and-girl fashion; between us three old townsmen, I'll go as far as to say they were very much interested in each other.
Side by side on the kitchen-table, their feet dangling in the air, husband and wife sat boy-and-girl fashion and munched hot cake, till their appetites for dinner were wrecked. But the rains that heralded winter and they set in early that year had not begun to fall when more serious matters claimed Mahony's attention. It was an odd and inexplicable thing that business showed no sign of improving.
"Tommy 's quenched; I agree with you, Polly; I never liked Trix, and I hope it 's only a boy-and-girl fancy, that will soon die a natural death," said Mr. Shaw, who seemed to find it difficult to help falling into a brown study, in spite of the lively chatter going on about him.
"The role of brother isn't always entirely satisfying," retorted Stuart under his breath. "You know well enough you've only to say the word and I " "Jimps dear" Georgiana's voice was very gentle now "remember we've left all that boy-and-girl sentimentalizing behind.
He had listened to her as she had proclaimed her love, and yet this love, without illusions, sharply recalled to him other passions. He remembered his first love, a boy-and-girl affair, and sharply contrasting it with a sudden ache to this absence of impulse and illusions, of phrases, vows, without logic, thrown out in the sweet madness of the moment.
"You get more fun and interest out of it, I don't deny, but the bill, my dear, is unconscionable." "So! you confess it!" "My dear, and who am I to stand aside like a coward and see you make a mountain of this boy-and-girl affair an affair which Rudolph and I had practically forgotten oh, years ago! until to-day? Why why, you can't be jealous of me!" Mrs. Pendomer concluded, half-mockingly.
Poor William! Had he really liked her, in those boy-and-girl days? She dreamed over their old cousinly relations over the presents he had sometimes given her. Then a thought, like a burning arrow, pierced her. Her hands locked, straining one against the other. If this intrigue were indeed renewed if Geoffrey succeeded in tempting Kitty from her husband why then then
Their boy-and-girl days, their days of plain, outspoken confidence, were for ever past. That one year of absence spent by him in London, by her at Abbotsmead, had insensibly matured the worldly knowledge of both, and without a word spoken each recognized the other's position, but without diminution of their ancient kindness.
You are not here to be drawn into a boy-and-girl quarrel with a maid who chances to share our canoe. You are here as my aid, to make the shortest time possible between Quebec and Frontenac. If she were to fall sick, we should be delayed. Therefore she must not fall sick." Danton had plucked a weed, and now was pulling it to pieces, bit by bit. "What do you want me to do?"
He had fancied himself entirely cured of that boy-and-girl nonsense; his broken heart, after the first few months, had not interfered in the least with a naturally healthy appetite; and, behold, here was the old malady raging again in his veins and with renewed fervour. And all because the girl had a pretty face!
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