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Desiree called them by their names, and talked pettingly to them; while Abbe Mouret retreated a few steps from this display of voracious life. 'No, I am not at all comfortable, he said to his sister, when she tried to make him feel the weight of a fowl she was fattening. 'It always makes me uneasy to touch live animals. He tried to smile, but Desiree taxed him with cowardice.
"Aowa! Aowa!" said Mowgli pettingly. "I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges.
Miss Carry had risen, and put one arm round her sister's neck, while with the other she stroked the soft brown hair over the smooth forehead. "And it shall not be taken away from its pretty theatre, it sha'n't!" said she, pettingly; "and it shall not be asked to go away with any great ugly Bluebeard, and be shut up in a lonely house " "Go away, Carry," said she, releasing herself.
I care for nothing but you.... I can't remember, I tell you. I came, you took me, and that is all. And restfully, pettingly, he said once more: 'How warm your hand is now! it is as nice as the sun. Don't let us talk any more. It makes me hot. A quivering silence fell from the blue ceiling of the large room.
There seemed to emanate from her the perfect sweetness of a child "the aura of a white soul," was the way he phrased it to himself. Then he noticed that her sobs were increasing. "What's the matter, little one?" he asked pettingly and almost paternally. "Has Jack been bullying you? Or has your dearly beloved sister failed to write?"
He rode his pony mercilessly for a mile or so, then pulled up, and began to talk pettingly to him, which I doubt if the little creature found consoling, for love only makes petting worth anything, and the love here was not much to the front. About halfway home, he had to ford a small stream, or go round two miles by a bridge.
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