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Oh! those blessed tears she shed as she pillowed her head on my breast; those blessed, blessed tears! "Come tomorrow, please come." "God willing, Lucy, yes." "Why do you say, 'God willing'? Of course he'll be willing." And I went forth, scarcely able to contain myself for very joy. The next morning I returned and spent many hours with this precious, very precious jewel.
She ran to the well, sank the bucket into it, brought a gourd full, and came and crouched by his head while he drank. "Thank you, marm." He looked up into her face a moment. "I think I am going," he whispered. She pillowed his head upon her arm, laid back the hair from his manly brow, and fanned him with her apron. "Please tell her," he whispered. "Tell who?" She bowed her head to catch the word.
There lay the little fellow, sound asleep in the goat-wagon, his head pillowed on his arm, while Nicknack was bleating now and then between the bites of grass and weeds he was eating. "Oh, Trouble!" cried Mrs. Newton as she took him up in her arms. "Yes dis me I's Trouble," was the sleepy response. "Oh, 'lo, Teddy," he went on as he saw his brother. "'Lo, Bob. You come to find me?"
Billie, huddled on the ground, her head pillowed against the side of his cot, slumbered deeply, and Gentleman Geoff's slim, delicate fingers touched her hair in a wistful caress. On a nearby bench Thode, bathed and freshly bandaged, slept also.
Monsieur obeyed; and Leonora was still seated on a cushion at the feet of her foster-sister, with her pale face pillowed upon her knees, when Madame de Conti threw open the door of the royal closet, and announced the Prince. "Let Monseigneur await my pleasure without," exclaimed Marie angrily. "I understand the motive of this breach of etiquette, and shall reward it as it deserves.
I say happy for in lapsing away into that mortal sleep, of which our natural sleep is but an image, shall the world-weary who have in trial and suffering grown heavenly minded, sink into unconsciousness with less of tranquil delight than the babe pillowed against its mother's bosom? I think not.
The cottage was fully equipped for their reception, with Minervy in possession of the kitchen and the formerly reluctant Suze as housemaid: though Thérèse had been silent as to the methods which she had employed to prevail with these unwilling damsels. Hosmer then went out to look after their baggage, and when he returned, Fanny sat with her head pillowed on the sofa, sobbing bitterly.
Nor did she attempt to check them, or wipe them away, only she sat and listened with her heavy head pillowed against the great tree, while the Blackbird, glancing down at her every now and then with critical eye to mark the effect of some particularly difficult passage, piped surely as he had never done before, until the listener's proud face sank lower and lower, and was, at last, hidden in her hands.
Semyonov was lying, sleeping like a child, his head pillowed on his arm. Very cautiously I dressed, then went downstairs again. I did not understand now the peace and happiness in my heart. All the time I was saying to myself: "Why am I so happy? Why am I so happy?"...
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