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Updated: June 1, 2025
The girl impetuous, hot-blooded, excitable poured out her love-talk like a bird singing. Happiness complete was hers for the time; but Gavan's heart was not in the wooing, and he listened and was silent. Hugh and Mary, walking on ahead, knew nothing of the love scenes just behind them.
Now it taxes no more the wit of a rogue than the wit of an honest man to guess that when two young people stand apart and talk, it is God's gold to the devil's silver that they talk love-talk.
And recalling these facts, he naturally recalled that which had made them possible the little ranch in the valley. So he let his thoughts linger there. Faint and elusive at first, those other days became finally quite vivid, days of expectancy and gratification, days of sugar and quartered apples, days of affection and love-talk from his pretty little mistress. And how he missed them all!
Jennings has a splutter of tease, and crude incivility, and shapeless tenderness, that you and I see every day; not so patent and demonstrative in our friend Mrs. Jones; but the difference is only in fashion: Mrs. Jennings was in scant petticoats, and Mrs. Jones wears hoops, thirty springs strong. How funny, too, the old love-talk!
And she talked mother's love-talk to a child. "Good-night, Laddie ... good-night ... good-night ... mother's own boy." And a little more tucking and smoothing and patting and kissing, and then she turned so quietly, picked up the candle, and went out, closing the door so softly, her great strength revealed in her gentleness.
Sometimes, when she herself wearied of love-talk, she tried to open her heart seriously to him. She saw him listen deferentially, but without understanding. This killed her efforts at a finer intimacy, and she had flashes of fear. Sometimes he was restless of an evening: it was not enough for him just to be near her, she realised. She was glad when he set himself to little jobs.
Amilcare rattled on; love-talk comes easily to the Italian tongue, whose very vocables are caresses. Gradually he drew in and in to the Borgia, centre of all his spinning thought. "There is a lover of yours, for instance!" he said, comically aghast; and Molly laughed. "Why, Amilcare, you make all the world to be my lover, all the world to look at me through your eyes.
And had you heard The noble words this morning from the mouth Of our professor, changed were you, or raised Above love-thoughts, love-talk, and flame and flutter, High as eternal snows. What said he else, My uncle Homeware? ARDEN: That you were not free: And that he counselled us to use our wits. ASTRAEA: But I am free I free to be ever free! My freedom keeps me free! He counselled us?
I am dead sleepy," she added; "the stupid thing doesn't know how to talk love-talk at all," and she climbed into the four-poster, clothes and all, and drew the quilt up to her chin. On the day preceding Tant Sannie's wedding, Gregory Rose sat in the blazing sun on the stone wall behind his daub-and-wattle house.
Brilliana made a gesture of protest. "Fie, this is no love-talk time, when the King is fighting. Ride, gallant Rufus, come back with loyal laurels and the flags of canting rebels, and see how I shall welcome you." Rufus caught her hands. "Must I be content with this?" he asked, hotly. "You must be content with this," Brilliana replied, coolly. "Here come your brothers-in-arms."
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