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It was not so much what he had seen her do as what he knew she was, that led him to begin his recital. "We have a good many blocks before us yet," he said, "and I am going to tell you a little story. Why don't you take the full benefit of my arm? There," he proceeded, drawing her hand farther through his arm, "now you feel more like a big girl than like a bit of thistledown.
Roy had spoken on impulse a noble impulse. But he patently meant what he said, this boy stigmatised by Jane as "all in the clouds," and needing a "tight hand." Here was one of those "whimsical and perilous moments of daily life" that pass in a breath; light as thistledown, heavy with complex issues.
I shall keep you, Thistledown, just as long as the law will let me; but the law must be obeyed, and we can't tell how things will come out." "Won't I have to go back to-morrow?" she asked eagerly. "No, indeed," he assured her. "Were you dreading that? Don't be afraid, Thistledown! Keep up a stout heart! You shall stay here for the present anyway." He looked at his watch.
Her face was serious. "And what has the king to suggest?" "He proposes to accept the humiliation of being rejected by you." "Why, this is a gallant king! Pouff! There goes a crown of thistledown." She smiled at the chancellor, then she laughed. There was nothing but youth in the laughter, youth and gladness. "Oh, I knew that you were a good fairy. Listen to me.
Allow me to kiss him; I shall not disturb him; and if he should recover, as I trust in the Almighty's mercy he will oh, how I should like to tell him that the dream about his mother was not altogether a dream that I did kiss him. Trust me, I will not awaken him the fall of the thistledown will will not be lighter than the kiss I shall give my child."
If you really want to understand, and are willing to give the time to it, come to my quarters, and I will give you the scientific explanation." "No, thank you," said Lawrence; "I'll take your word for it, but I am glad to know that when I get back to earth I'm not liable at any time to be blown away like a thistledown."
The chimney will tumble in. The fort will be taken." "Art thou working against us?" demanded the maid wrathfully. "Why should I work for you? You should, indeed, work for me. Pick me up this swan and carry him to the top of the stairs." "I will not do it!" cried Zélie, revolting through every atom of her ample bulk. "Do I want to be lifted over the turret like thistledown?"
"There never was a more Oriental thing invented than the crinoline," he observed, nodding towards a group of dancers blowing as lightly as balls of thistledown over the stage, slim ankles twinkling below their inflated skirts of misty whiteness; "I'm not trying to be epigrammatic, I mean it. Watch those girls there ... did you ever see such sway, such slope I can't find the exact word for it?
"It's curious how nature varies the type of aviation," he continued dreamily. "Now, the pigeon is, of course, a Zeppelin; whereas the sea urchin is obviously a balloon; and the thistledown an undirigible " "You're making fun of me!" she accused, with sharp enlightenment. "What else have you done to me ever since we met?" he inquired mildly. "Now I AM angry! I shall go home at once."
She was weak, but she was not altogether foolish; and she had no idea of succumbing to this new influence of yielding herself up to this conqueror, who seemed to take her life into his hand as if it were a bit of thistledown. Her agitation of those first few minutes was due to the suddenness of his appearance the reaction from dulness to delight.
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