Kit and Kitty: A Story of West Middlesex
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Blackmore Richard Doddridge. Kit and Kitty: A Story of West Middlesex
CHAPTER I. UNCLE CORNY
CHAPTER II. MY KITTY
CHAPTER III. THE TIMBER BRIDGE
CHAPTER IV. PEACHES, AND PEACHING
CHAPTER V. A LITTLE TIFF
CHAPTER VI. THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
CHAPTER VII. DE GUSTIBUS
CHAPTER VIII. BAD COUNSEL
CHAPTER IX. A DOG VIOLATE
CHAPTER X. AN UPWARD STROKE
CHAPTER XI. THE FINE ARTS
CHAPTER XII. AN EMPTY PILE
CHAPTER XIII. MY UNCLE BEGINS
CHAPTER XIV. AND ENDS WITH A MORAL
CHAPTER XV. MORAL SUPPORT
CHAPTER XVI. TRUE LOVE
CHAPTER XVII. TRUE FATHER
CHAPTER XVIII. FALSE MOTHER
CHAPTER XIX. DOE DEM. ROE
CHAPTER XX. AUNT PARSLOW
CHAPTER XXI. A TULIP BLOOM
CHAPTER XXII. COLDPEPPER HALL
CHAPTER XXIII. AT BAY, AND IN THE BAY
CHAPTER XXIV. HARO!
CHAPTER XXV. ON THE SHELF
CHAPTER XXVI. A DOWNY COVE
CHAPTER XXVII. OFF THE SHELF
CHAPTER XXVIII. OUT OF ALL REASON
CHAPTER XXIX. A FINE TIP
CHAPTER XXX. BASKETS
CHAPTER XXXI. THE GIANT OF THE HEATH
CHAPTER XXXII. A DREAM
CHAPTER XXXIII. URGENT MEASURES
CHAPTER XXXIV. TWO TO ONE
CHAPTER XXXV. UNDER THE GARDEN WALL
CHAPTER XXXVI. FROST IN MAY
CHAPTER XXXVII. COLD COMFORT
CHAPTER XXXVIII. NONE
CHAPTER XXXIX. ON TWO CHAIRS
CHAPTER XL. JOB’S COMFORT
CHAPTER XLI. TRUE COMFORT
CHAPTER XLII. BEHIND THE FIDDLE
CHAPTER XLIII. THE GREAT LADY
CHAPTER XLIV. MET AGAIN
CHAPTER XLV. ROGUES FALL OUT
CHAPTER XLVI. TONY TONKS
CHAPTER XLVII. TOADSTOOLS
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE DUCHESS
CHAPTER XLIX. CRAFTY, AND SIMPLE
CHAPTER L. A POCKETFUL OF MONEY
CHAPTER LI. NOT IN A HURRY
CHAPTER LII. A WANDERING GLEAM
CHAPTER LIII. A BAD NIGHT
CHAPTER LIV. PRINCE’S MANSION
CHAPTER LV. RELIEF OF MIND
CHAPTER LVI. ANOTHER TRACE
CHAPTER LVII. A VAIN APPEAL
CHAPTER LVIII. UNCLE CORNY’S LOVE-TALE
CHAPTER LIX. A COOL REQUEST
CHAPTER LX. ALIVE IN DEATH
CHAPTER LXI. ZINKA
CHAPTER LXII. HASTE TO THE WEDDING
CHAPTER LXIII. THERE SAT KITTY
CHAPTER LXIV. A MENSÂ ET TORO
CHAPTER LXV. HER OWN WAY
CHAPTER LXVI. ONE GOOD WISH
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The shape of a tree is not decided by the pruner only. When the leader is stopped, with an eye towards the wind, and the branches clipped to a nicety of experience and of forethought, and the happy owner has said to it – “Now I defy you to go amiss this season” – before he is up in the morning perhaps, his lecture is flown, and his labour lost.
My wise Uncle Corny had said to me, more times than I can remember – “Kit, you are a good boy, a very good boy, and likely to be useful in my business by-and-by. But of one thing beware – never say a word to women. They never know what they want themselves; and they like to bring a man into the same condition. What wonderful things I have seen among the women! And the only way out of it is never to get into it.”
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This was truly clever of her, and it stopped all reasoning. With a glance of reproach, the maiden gathered her loosened cloak more tightly, and then gave me both her hands and sprang; and I managed it so that she slid down into my arms. This was not what she intended, but there was no help for it, the ground being very slippery after such a flood. She seemed lighter than a feather, and more buoyant than a cork; though some of that conclusion perhaps was due to my impressions. Be that either way, I could never have believed that anything so lovely would be ever in my hold; and the power of it drove away my presence of mind so badly, that I was very near forgetting the proper time for letting go.
And this was no wonder, when I come to think about it; the only wonder was that I could show such self-command. For the breath of her lips was almost on mine, and her blushes so near that I seemed to feel their glow, and the deep rich blue of her eyes so close that they were like an opening into heaven. My entire gift of words was gone, and I knew not what I did or thought.
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