That bower by the loch, too, was favourable to the fondlings of a secret love; nor was it sometimes less to the prisoner a refuge from the eeriness which comes of ennuiif it is not the same thingunder the pressure of which strange feeling he would creep out at times when Annie could not be with him; nay, sometimes when the family had gone to bed.

Being left entirely at liberty, and extremely well fed, the tiger grew rapidly, appeared tame and fondling as a dog, and in every respect entirely domesticated.

Thereafter she had never doubted him; he had barked at all twelve of Mr. Heatherbloom's predecessorsthe dozen other answers to the advertisement; but here he was sedulous for fondlings from Horatio.

What is more tender than a mother's love To the sweet infant fondling in her arms?