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Updated: June 23, 2025
"He was crying because he'd been to Grannie's house and there wasn't anybody there " "And because he'd lost the love-birds he'd brought for Auntie Emmy " "And because he couldn't remember which of us was dead." "No, Mummy, nobody's seen him but us and Nanna." "Nanna's with him now."
When I said I had 'ad enough, 'e contradicted me and kept on, but he got tired of it at last, and, arter telling me wot he would do if I ever walked 'is wife out agin, they went off like a couple o' love-birds. By the time I got 'ome next morning my eyes was so swelled up I could 'ardly see, and my nose wouldn't let me touch it.
Henrietta spied the donkey-basket bearing the two little ones. 'Yes, I hope so on our way down, she made answer. 'I want you to see the pair of love-birds in a nest. The boy and girl were seen lying side by side, both fast asleep; fair-haired girl, dark-haired boy, faced to one another. 'Temper? said Fleetwood, when he had taken observation of them. 'Very imperious Mr.
He thrives in all zones, upon all manner of food. He may not be able to eat tin-cans, but he tries to. The island was snake-free. There were all varieties of bird-life known in these latitudes, from the bird of paradise down to the tiny scarlet-beaked love-birds. There were always parrots and parrakeets screaming in the fruit groves.
Henrietta spied the donkey-basket bearing the two little ones. 'Yes, I hope so on our way down, she made answer. 'I want you to see the pair of love-birds in a nest. The boy and girl were seen lying side by side, both fast asleep; fair- haired girl, dark-haired boy, faced to one another. 'Temper? said Fleetwood, when he had taken observation of them. 'Very imperious Mr.
"You two are always quarrelling," she said, archly, "just like a couple of couple of " "Love-birds," suggested Mr. Nugent. Mrs. Kybird in great glee squeezed round to him and smote him playfully with her large, fat hand, and then, being somewhat out of breath with the exertion, sat down to enjoy the jest in comfort. "That's how you encourage him," said her daughter; "no wonder he doesn't behave.
The front room was filled with nicknacks, curious work-tables, filigree baskets, twisted brackets supporting statuettes, in which the grotesque in every case ruled the design; love-birds, in gilt cages; French bronzes, wonderful boxes, needlework of strange patterns, and other attractive objects.
Diana held the reins. The whip was an ornament, as the plume of feathers to the general officer. Lady Dunstane's ponies were a present from Redworth, who always chose the pick of the land for his gifts. They joyed in their trot, and were the very love-birds of the breed for their pleasure of going together, so like that Diana called them the Dromios.
No nonsense. Come along. But Miss Whichello's bark was worse than her bite, for she discreetly left the room, so that the love-birds could take a tender leave of each other, and Captain Pendle found her standing on the steps outside with a broad smile on her face. 'You are sure you have not forgotten your gloves, Captain Pendle? she asked smilingly.
Elodie lounged for the rest of the afternoon in her room, with a couple of love-birds for company the rest of the aviary in the Saint-Denis flat being under the guardianship of Bakkus; and Andrew, with his cleared dressing-table for a desk, brought up-to-date the autobiographical manuscript which for the past few months had solaced so many hours of enforced leisure.
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