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I don't mean ever to be a step-father I shall start a lot of boys and girls of my own." "All right," she said soothingly, "I'm sure you will. Lie down now, and try to go to sleep." She hoped with all her heart that the boy would sleep late the next morning, as he very often did when tired out, and that the execution, if execution there must be, would be over by the time he woke.
"Calm yourself, Enrica," Fra Pacifico said, soothingly. "No one seeks to hurry or to force you. But I could not for a moment sanction your entering a convent. In your present state of mind it would be an unholy and an unnatural act." Although outwardly unmoved, never in her life had the marchesa felt such exultation.
Then, with the patient fortitude of a woman when once she thinks the will of the Almighty is declared, she laid her hand upon his shoulder, and she said, soothingly, "Dear father, bow to Heaven's will;" then she held up both her feeble arms to him "kiss me, father FOR WE ARE TO DIE!" With these firm and patient words, she laid her sweet head upon the ground, and hoped and feared no more.
There followed a blurred and formal shaking of his hand by those present, and the big sister whom he had not noticed before came up and kissed him. Then he was conscious of the flapper still at his side. He turned to her and was amazed to discover that she was blinking tears from her eyes. "There, there!" he muttered soothingly, and took her in his arms quite as if they were alone.
The priest, a southern-eyed kindly man, with an astonishing flow of soft pietistic talk, sat beside her, speaking soothingly of the many marvels of cure or conversion that had been wrought by the treasure she held. He was going on to hold a retreat at a convent of the order near Froswick, and would return, he said, by Bannisdale in a week's time, to reclaim his charge.
"What's the price of blue silk neckties? I've got a Yankee sweetheart in New York, and I want to look well when our conquering army marches into that city!" "A pair of blankets for me, Mr. Williams, to be paid for when we loot the Yankee treasury!" But Williams was not disconcerted. He was used to such badinage. He spread out his large hands soothingly.
"That is just what has happened to us," said Mrs. Billette, as the girls stared incredulously. "We've been robbed of some things that money never can replace. Oh-oh-oh, if I had only put it in a safer place! How could I have been such a fool! Oh! oh!" and Mrs. Billette, poor woman, was fast verging on another attack of hysteria. Mollie put her arms about her mother soothingly.
"Who's findin' fault, Mister Dubble?" asked Peke soothingly. "I on'y said 'twas powerful warm." "An' no one but a sawny 'xpects it to be powerful cold in July," growled Dubble "though some there is an' some there be what cries fur snow in August, but I aint one on 'em."
"One thing more remained to do say good-by to my excellent aunt. I found her triumphant. I had a cup of tea the last decent cup of tea for many days and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady's drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside.
There, my good Finot," he added soothingly, "I will get on with my story without personalities, and we shall be quits." "Now," said Couture with a smile, "he will begin to prove for our benefit that Nucingen made Rastignac's fortune." "You are not so far out as you think," returned Bixiou. "You do not know what Nucingen is, financially speaking."
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