"You two snuggle up together; keep each other warm.

Halloa! here we are.

Let 'em all come," he added, as a cry of welcome and joy rose from the children, who appeared now and rushed at him as if for refuge and comfort.
The two girls watched him hungrily as he caught up the smallest of the group, gave her a playful shake, and chucked her softly into the nest.
They shrilled their thanks and their love, and clamoured to him to remain; but Derrick wiped them off gently, as one wipes off a bunch of clinging bees, and promising to look them up as soon as he could, returned to the horses, which needed him quite as badly as did these humans.
"He's almost too good to be a man," murmured Alice, involuntarily, as her gaze followed him wistfully.
Isabel's dark eyes flashed, and her full and sensuous lips curved contemptuously.
"He's a man, every inch of him," she said.

"He's the first man I've ever met in this god-forsaken world.

You--like him, because he's been playing the nurse to all of us women; you're the sort that always wants some man to be fussing about you.