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The voice of the man dropped to a whisper as he asked the question. "What about the girl business?" Trembling with eagerness to do the thing that would bring more caressing, bewildered by unfamiliar words and tones, the dog hesitated. "Do I go on as I have ever since mother left me, rustling for grub, living in untrammelled freedom? Do I go on as before, Bel?"
Mademoiselle Saget appeared to be on the best of terms with La Normande, and was hanging over her in a caressing way, bringing the shawl forward to cover her the better, and listening to her angry indignation with an expression of the deepest sympathy. "You wretched coward!" exclaimed Claire, planting herself in front of her sister.
'But no wonder, since I am nothing but a Blue Bird, and must remain one for seven years. 'What! Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming? said the Princess, caressing him. 'It is too true, he answered. 'For being faithful to you I am thus punished. But believe me, if it were for twice as long I would bear it joyfully rather than give you up.
Neil Stewart laid a caressing hand upon the beautiful head and said laughingly: "You'd blush for that little snippin-frizzle if you could, wouldn't you, old girl? Well, it's up to you to teach her better manners. She's young and flighty. The next time she starts in on any such rampage, just pick her up and carry her out, as any naughty child should be carried. Understand?"
For the rest, her smile, when requisite, was still full of grace, and even of the seducing and resistless sweetness of seeming good-nature. Her large blue eyes, on fit occasions, became affectionate and caressing. But if any one dared to wound or ruffle her pride, gainsay her orders or harm her interests, her countenance, usually placid and serene, betrayed a cold but implacable malignity. Mrs.
"Don't you cry," said Ned, caressing her. "I'll soon get it again." "Oh, but you can't, Teddy!" "Can't I?" he cried, setting his teeth. "I'll soon show you. Hold this string." As his sister caught the string the boy dashed to the tree. "Oh, Teddy, don't; you'll fall you'll fall!" cried Tizzy. "That I won't," he said stoutly. "I've climbed larger trees than this at school."
The silence grew more intense; a strain of listening, a fixed eagerness of watching. Suddenly, in the midst, the Violinist raised his head from his instrument, drawing the bow with a slow, downward, caressing pressure over the E string.
What if her tender glances, her affectionate words, her graceful, caressing manner, were all a comedy, of which he was the dupe! What if "I am the victim of treachery," he thought to himself; "but the traitor cannot be here. Oh, no, no! let me find the traitor anywhere rather than here." Paulina watched her lover as he sat with his eyes fixed on the ground, absorbed in gloomy meditation.
"That's why you licked the preacher," he assisted, and went back to his reading. A subdued rumble of mid-autumn thunder jarred sullenly overhead. Ford ceased caressing the purple half-moon which inclosed his left eye and began moodily straightening his tie. "Now what'n hell did I do that for?" he inquired complainingly. "Search me," mumbled Sandy over his book. He read half a page farther.
Turning suddenly round upon the sleek, caressing hand, he darted his beak with a vicious peck at his assailant, and bit the divine finger of the Pillar of Heaven as carelessly as he would have bitten any child on Boupari. Tu-Kila-Kila, thunder-struck, drew back his arm with a start of surprise and a loud cry of pain. The bird had wounded him. He shook his hand and stamped.
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