″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’
‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”
″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’
‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”
“My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Won’t you give me one kiss? It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then.”
“Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may have most cause to fear.”
“Now it’s all done, Becky. And always after this, you know, you ain’t ever to love anybody but me, and you ain’t ever to marry anybody but me, ever never and forever. Will you?”