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He had unconsciously been using Freddy's pet-name for her, his hand sought hers sympathetically. Margaret prized the word "Meg" as it came affectionately from his lips. "Meg, it is all too wonderful!" Michael said no more; he had buried his face in his two hands. He would have given his youth to have seen what Margaret had seen. "Then you don't think it was a dream?"
When a man has died in his eighty-ninth year, it seems irreverent to call him by his nickname. And yet the irreverence is rather in seeming than in reality, for a nickname, a pet-name, an abbreviation, is often the truest token of popular esteem.
At five o'clock the green fields of the departed spring, already grown bare and brown, rolled up between us and the horizon. California is a naked land and no mistake, but how beautiful in her nakedness! An hour later we descended at School-house station; such is the matter-of-fact pet-name given to a cluster of dull houses, once known by some melodious but forgotten Spanish appellation.
"It's all over, Pipkin!" she said, with a sigh, Pipkin was the poetic pet-name by which the 'beauty' of the press-paragraphist addressed her Ever-Youthful friend, "We shall never get a penny out of Mrs. Fred Vancourt. Maryllia is a mule!
My heart is set on wedding Prince Reginald. Take her out of his way!" Just then a broad gleam of moonlight fell on the treacherous maiden. It was strange how much she looked like the cruel fairy; and Gerula gazed on her with delight. "My beautiful viper!" said she, using the sweetest pet-name she could think of, "I will do your bidding.
Wade was all the husband you ever had, and that stepdaddy was nothing but a sort of pet-name the kids had give Mr. Wade." "I told him," said Demetrius, "that stepdaddy was cross to us sometimes and not as nice as mudder, and he said " "You shut up," commanded Huldah quickly, "and let me talk." "No," I intercepted, "I'd really be interested in hearing what he told Uncle Issachar.
Can’t you tell us what’s the matter?” “Buffalo” Westabrook smiled down at the third man of the party. “The trouble with the child,” Billy Potter said promptly, “is that everything she’s had has been ‘prize.’ Not that it’s spoiled her at all. Petronilla is as simple as a princess in a fairy-tale.” “Petronilla” was Billy Potter’s pet-name for Maida. “Yes, she’s wonderfully simple,” Dr.
Maida half-shut her eyes and the whole world seemed to flash by in ribbons. “May I get out for a moment, papa?” she asked suddenly in a thin little voice. “I’d like to watch the waves.” “All right,” her father answered briskly. To the chauffeur he said, “Stop here, Henri.” To Maida, “Stay as long as you want, Posie.” “Posie” was Mr. Westabrook’s pet-name for Maida.
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