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But I tell you, Lady Gray, I've had all the lecturing I need just now from the other head of the family. I think Dad would have liked me to ride with him, at first, but he gave me his opinion of a boy who would 'sneak' off and 'leave his mother unprotected in a strange house at night. Just forgive me this once, motherkin, and I'll be good in future; or till next time, any way. Now, come."
"But what on earth brings you to this terrible Lisbon, of all places?" "Well, motherkin," said he with the finest air of importance, "a man would say that if a crew of British sailors could be useful anywhere We'll teach your Portuguese, anyhow. Oh, yes, the Pegasus was at Gibraltar we felt the shock there pretty badly and the Admiral sent us up the coast to give help where we could.
In the midst of it a voice a high, jolly, schoolboy voice called out from the gateway demanding, in execrable Portuguese, to be shown Lady Vyell's tent. She dropped the raking-iron with a clatter and stood erect, listening. "Dicky?" . . . she breathed. Yes; the tent flap was lifted and Dicky stood there in the twilight; a Dicky incredibly grown. "Dicky!" "Motherkin!" He was folded in her arms.
But, Pina, you don't know half as much about motherkin as I do, for when you are with her she usually forgets herself, I can see, and talks only about the things that interest you; whereas, when there's nobody present but me, she counts me for nothing, and lets me do pretty much what I like because no doubt she thinks I'll do that whether she lets me or not but she's wrong, for I love her far more than she thinks; and then it's when I'm quiet and she forgets me, I fancy, or thinks I'm asleep, that she comes out strong at the cat."
'Motherkin, I answered, 'what I mean is that I would sleep until I wake, for I have come a prodigious distance and have last slept in the woods. But when I wake I shall need food, for which, I added, pulling out yet another coin, 'I will pay whatever your charge may be; for a more delightful house I have rarely met with.
He called himself a "Little Fool" and a "Little Cross-air Bird." He addressed the Count as his "heart's Papa," and Anna Nitschmann as his "Motherkin." He said he would kiss them a thousand times, and vowed he could never fondle them enough!
"It sounds rather strange to hear my little girl talking so wisely of other people's love affairs," smiled Mrs. Harlowe almost wistfully. "I know what you are thinking, Motherkin," responded Grace, slipping both arms about her mother and drawing her gently into the big porch swing. "You needn't be afraid, though.
To my motherkin I go Little daughter of the Snow." And just then the door blew open from the yard, and a cold wind filled the room, and the little daughter of the Snow was gone. "You always used to say something else, grandfather," said Maroosia. Old Peter patted her head, and went on. "I haven't forgotten.
Good-bye, ancient ones, good-bye, Back I go across the sky; To my motherkin I go Little daughter of the Snow." They ran into the house. There were a little pool of water in front of the stove, and a fur hat, and a little coat, and little red boots were lying in it.
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