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"Yet smith am I in sooth, lady, and therewithal content." Now did she look on him 'neath drooping lash, sweet-eyed and languorous, and shook her head, and sighed. "Alas, messire, methinks then perchance it may be true that thou, for all thy youth, and despite thine eyes, art a mocker of love, a despiser of women? And yet nay sure 'tis not so?"
And then, the labor done, the fire dead Black George to his lonely cottage, and I to "The Bull" there to sit between Simon and the Ancient, waited upon by the dexterous hands of sweet-eyed Prudence. What mighty rounds of juicy beef, washed down by draughts of good brown ale! What pies and puddings, prepared by those same slender, dexterous hands!
Aunt Alice, so patient-faced and pretty and sweet-eyed in her neat poverty greeted me with a warm kiss. "Well, you'll soon be well now." "But I won't work on a farm." "Never mind, dear ... don't worry about that just yet." That afternoon I sat with Aunt Alice in the kitchen, watching her make bread.
Not seldom? always: if sweet-eyed Grace be such an angel, that ever-abiding guest, full of love, duty, piety, and cheerfulness. Here was one blessing the less. Another wretched change was in the wife.
All the rest were asleep, and having assured himself of this, he drew up a low chair and leaned his elbow on his knee and hi head on his hand, and told the whole adventure of the evening to his mother, and then dropped his head on her lap and wept in a still way. And the sweet-eyed, weary Moravian mother laid her two hands upon his head and prayed.
You and I you, Thyrza, my sweet-eyed, my beautiful sit here side by side and hold each other's hands. Your voice has become very low and reverent, as befits the place, as befits the utterance of love such as this you say you bear me. What can I answer you, my golden one?
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