Caddy Buddy books

By degrees, he turned on her his manly
countenance, with the softest expression of which his large blue
eye, which so often gleamed with insufferable light, was capable.
Caressing her fair head, and mingling his large fingers in her
beautiful and dishevelled locks, he raised and tenderly kissed
the cherub countenance which seemed desirous to hide itself in
his hand. The robust form, the broad, noble brow and majestic
looks, the naked arm and shoulder, the lions' skins among which
he lay, and the fair, fragile feminine creature that kneeled by
his side, might have served for a model of Hercules reconciling
himself, after a quarrel, to his wife Dejanira.
"And, once more, what seeks the lady of my heart in her knight's
pavilion at this early and unwonted hour?"
"Pardon, my most gracious liege--pardon!" said the Queen, whose
fears began again to unfit her for the duty of intercessor.
"Pardon--for what?" asked the King.
"First, for entering your royal presence too boldly and
unadvisedly--"
She stopped.


Pages:
360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384