`` What make ye here , good brother ? '' she inquired . `` Ye are doubtless ill-directed . Whom do ye require ? And she set her lamp upon the bracket . `` Joanna , '' said Dick ; and then his voice failed him . `` Joanna , '' he began again , `` ye said ye loved me ; and the more fool I , but I believed it ! '' `` Dick ! '' she cried . `` Dick ! '' And then , to the wonder of the lad , this beautiful and tall young lady made but one step of it , and threw her arms about his neck and gave him a hundred kisses all in one . `` Oh , the fool fellow ! '' she cried . `` Oh , dear Dick ! Oh , if ye could see yourself ! Alack ! '' she added , pausing . `` I have spoilt you , Dick ! I have knocked some of the paint off . But that can be mended .
What can not be mended , XXXXX -- or I much fear it can not !
Dick Joanna arms bracket brother fool kisses lad lamp neck