This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...Nay, nay, he shall love me as I ought to be." So she laid her lips on a rose, as she thought. And pray, now, how long this game of love-lips in its playing? Marry! until their conscious eyes first met--and then they took to lisping thus: " What, you a nightingale 1" "What, you a rose 1" " Why, who'd have thought, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...Nay, nay, he shall love me as I ought to be." So she laid her lips on a rose, as she thought. And pray, now, how long this game of love-lips in its playing? Marry! until their conscious eyes first met--and then they took to lisping thus: " What, you a nightingale 1" "What, you a rose 1" " Why, who'd have thought, though lips are red and ripe, they were so very, very good to eat--did you? " "Not I, but the rose hath taught me now to relish lips and feed on kisses." " I've learned a lesson, too: the bird hath lessoned me, Eoger. Yet odds! my little life, how hard and fast our hearts are beating--feel. Oh, Eoger, we must part, an' you come not and try to quiet mine. It hurts me--doth not yours 1 Come, try to still it, there's a duck, or our hearts will kill us dead: so part we must." " And is it really pain, Gulnare 1" " I'm sure I know not whether pain or pleasure, but I'll run and ask mamma: so now we part." Yet the simpletons kept closer still, and Eoger whispered--"Why, I do think, Gulnare, we were made for one another." " Why, so do I: and yet I ache again--keep off, keep off." " And not to love, Gulnare t" " Love!--how learned you that 1" " Onr lips have taught us, Eosebud." " Pretty, naughty lips! How often have I kissed my own, and yet I never loved! But yours are so sweeter, Eoger." " We do love, then, Gulnare." " Aye, if liking lips be love, I suppose we do. And not to know their use before! No, Eoger, no--we must not part 'em now." "Well, if they must, they must, 'twere pity to part them now." But a truce to all this twaddle, for the boy and girl are quiet now, and you are smiling, or wh...
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