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Updated: May 16, 2025
And yet the woman that smiled down on him was fifty years old at least. Her hair, which usually lay in two flat bands, closely drawn over the temples, had for this occasion been worked into waves by curling-papers, and twisted in front of either ear, into that particular ringlet locally called a kiss-me-quick. But it was streaked with grey, and the pinched features wore the tint of pale ivory.
A gust of wind, and away went the straw hats from the stall, up into the air, over the heads of the crowd, spinning along in the gutters; one, a very kiss-me-quick, was blown slap in the face of an old priest trudging along reading his breviary. Then such outcries, entreaties, objurgations, as the straw hats and bonnets were run after and recovered, or sought to be recovered.
"You owe a little to me," answered the Parson, "more to Kit here, and most, if I may say so, to my sweet lady." "Polly!" cried Nelson "Pretty Miss Kiss-me-quick!" "Ah," said the Parson, touched. "You don't forget old friends, Nelson. Nor does she.
My love," he murmured, bending, "you remember Captain Nelson of the Agamemnon, who was good enough to second us in some of our little affairs in Corsica? Lord Nelson Miss Kiss-me-quick. She says," he continued, drawing himself up, "that she'll permit the Victor of the Nile to salute her on the cheek." He held the blade before him with a bow. Nelson swept off his cocked hat.
Like so many other thinkers, Felix hesitated to reply. If only merit and the goods of this world could be finally divorced! If the reward of virtue were just men's love and an unconscious self-respect! If only 'to have nothing' were the highest honour! And yet, to do away with this beside him and put in its place What? No kiss-me-quick change had a chance of producing anything better.
She has a new bonnet on, just imported by the last English steamer. It has a horrid name, it is called a kiss-me-quick.
"The Queen," said Panky, returning to the statues, "sticks to it that . . . " "Here comes another bird," interrupted Hanky; "never mind about the Queen." The bird was soon eaten, whereon Panky again took up his parable about the Queen. "The Queen says they are connected with the cult of the ancient Goddess Kiss-me-quick." "What if they are? But the Queen sees Kiss-me-quick in everything.
It could not have been too hot, for Eve never used a parasol, or even a "kiss-me-quick," and Adam never complained, though he wore no clothes, that the sun blistered his skin. It couldn't have been wet, or they would have coughed all the time, like consumptive sheep, and it would have spoiled their garden, let alone giving them the chilblains and the snuffles.
The Little Doctor's going to help run the thing, and Rena Jackson and Lea Adams are in it and Annie Pilgreen. Her and Happy are down on the program for 'Under the Mistletoe', a tableau the red fire, kiss-me-quick brand." "Aw gwan!" cried Happy Jack, much distressed and not observing Weary's lowered eyelid. His perturbed face and manner gave the Happy Family an idea.
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