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"Brida, do not talk to Polly!" The sudden command startled the child almost into tripping. "I was n't talkin'!" she protested. "I was only kissin' her." "Well, come away from her clear away," for the little girl was not making very quick time. "I'm comin' s' fas' 's I can!" she pouted. "I can't run on these old crutches so there!"
And there's no doubt she's a clinker; quiet, you know, and steady; looks right at you, far in; sees the lot at a glance. Palish gel, not too big; but well set up. Square shoulders deep-chested gel. That sort." He stared at the table-cloth hard. "I was taken by her, mightily taken. So when she and my wife had done kissin', I put in my little oar.
He stretched out his hand impulsively. She placed hers in it. He raised it to his lips, bending low as if it had been the lily white hand of the fairest lady in the land, instead of the fat, rough, red hand of an old Irish washer-woman. "Sure, it's mighty bad taste ye have," said Tim with a sly laugh. "It's not her hand I'd be kissin'." "Bad luck to ye!
"He's treated you mean, Charlotte," her mother cried out, with a half sob. "He'd ought to be strung up after he acted so, huggin' an' kissin' you right before folk's face and eyes." "It was more my fault than 'twas his," returned Charlotte; and she shut the door. "Then I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself," Sarah called after her, but Charlotte did not seem to hear.
And agin Josiah sez: "I know I am a leadin' man in Jonesville and have been called more'n once a pillar in the meetin'-house, but never, never do I want to be made a statter with a sass pan on my head, and the bretheren and sistern kissin' my toes." And agin I sez, "It hain't a sass pan."
"My dear," said Miss Blake, preparing to comply with this request by wiping her lips with her apron, "you see I a'n't one of the kissin' sort, and I scurcely ever kiss a grown-up person; but here's my hand, and here's a kiss," with an old-fashioned smack that might have been heard in the next room, "for a token that you may always come to me as freely as if I was your mother, relyin' upon my givin' you my honest advice and opinion concernin' any affair that you may ask for counsel upon.
"He did," said he; "and what is still more fearful, it's said there was a black man along wid her. They say that Lanty seen them both, and that the black man had his arm about the white woman's waist, and was kissin' her at full trot." The cook crossed herself, and the whole kitchen turned up its eyes at this diabolical piece of courtship.
She raised her hand and stroked, not without tenderness, his rumpled hair. "P'r'aps If you had a sweetheart, Ran, you'd leave off makin' a fool of your old mother." "I wouldn't leave off kissin' her," said he. And then, suddenly, it struck him that he had never kissed Winny. He hadn't even thought of it.
I grant you it's 'ard, But what's a man to do? If I'd a-stayed at the Depot, you wouldn't think anything of me." "Like as not, but I'd 'ave you with me, Piggy. An' all the thinkin' in the world isn't like kissin'." "An' all the kissin' in the world isn't like 'avin' a medal to wear on the front o' your coat." "You won't get no medal." "Oh, yus, I shall though.
Wilfrid strode up to her, saying imperiously, "I tell you to listen!" She succumbed at once to a show of physical ascendency, murmuring, "It's sure he was seen kissin' of her twice, and mayhap more; and hearty smacks of the lips, too likin' it." The ladies rewarded Wilfrid for his service to their cause by absolutely hearing nothing a feat women can be capable of.
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