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'Let me tiss you, said the other, in appearance very much like the first, but to a smaller pattern. Their pink cheeks and yellow hair were speedily intermingled with the folds of Elfride's dress; she then stooped and tenderly embraced them both. 'Such an odd thing, said Elfride, smiling, and turning to Stephen.
Goldilocks was so touched by this burst of feeling, that she leaned over and lifting the poor lad's head, said, in her soft, little voice, "Don't cry, poor Billy! I will tiss you and tum adain soon." This promise consoled Billy, and he fell back beaming with pride at the unusual honor conferred upon him. "Me too! me too!" clamored Dick and Dolly, feeling that their devotion deserved some return.
The others looked as if they would like to join in the cry; and something in the kind, merry faces about her moved the Princess to stretch out her arms and say, with reckless condescension, "I will tiss evvybody!"
They descended in single file, unequally, like the theatre; two boys, then a little girl, the father, another girl, then the mother. Last of all trotted the dog, warily, suspicious of the descent. The boys emerged into the bay with a shout; the dog rushed, barking, after them. The little one waited for her father, calling shrilly: 'Tiss can't fall now, can she, dadda? Shall I put her down?
The old woman muttered: "'Tis niet goet, 'tis niet goet," and the elder daughter echoed: "Oh, 'tiss no bon, 'tiss no bon." Two British officers entered. They looked round and saw that private soldiers were sitting at the tables. But the St. Martin was the biggest estaminet in the village and provided the best wines and coffees, so they stood in the doorway, undecided what to do.
He is a hopeless child to correct, for when you imagine you are scolding him very severely, and you look for the tears of penitence to flow, he puts up his little face with an angelic smile, and lisps, "Tiss me." Drusilla, whose slight acquaintance you have already made, is three and comes from Savage Cove. The father has gradually become blind and the mother is crippled.
"Please God, you will!" said Josey, devoutly "And please God, so shall I. But there's never no knowin' what may 'appen in a day or two days " Here Ipsie gave vent to a yell of delight. She had been groping among the flowers in the cottage border, and now held up a deep red rose, darkly glowing at its centre. "Wed wose!" she announced, screamingly "Wed all wed! For Passon! Passon, tiss it!"
Gilfil, watching him still more shyly now they were without their mother's countenance. He drew little Bessie towards him, and set her on his knee. She shook her yellow curls out of her eyes, and looked up at him as she said, 'Zoo tome to tee ze yady? Zoo mek her peak? What zoo do to her? Tiss her? 'Do you like to be kissed, Bessie?
He would have welcomed anything just then. "Tiss me, ittle boy," urged Marion. She had him by the coat now with both hands, drawing him down to her. There was nothing for him to do. He must go through the ordeal. Suddenly he bent his head and shut his eyes. His face came close to hers; he felt her lips touch his cheek, and heard her childish laugh of delight. "Dood ittle boy!" she exclaimed.
There was less change in the mother's voice than in her face; and the next moment the little dark head lay on the pillow, and the tiny, nut-brown hand was stroking the hollow cheek of the dying woman. "'oo is my mammy, isn't 'oo?" "Yes, darling; kiss mammy good-bye," was the heart-breaking answer. "Me tiss 'oo," said the child, suiting the action to the word; "but not dood-bye. Me see 'oo aden.
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