"I don't think I shall believe that," said the Resident, banteringly; but as he spoke she looked up at him so searchingly that even he, the middle-aged man of the world, felt disconcerted, and rather welcomed the coming of the little rosy-faced doctor, who advanced on tiptoe, and with a look of mock horror in his face, as he said, softly: "Let me come here, my dear.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
"Dick, Dick," he said banteringly, "what a fierce wooer you are!
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"Ye look right sensibly like a picture outen ther Bible of Rebekkah at the well," he banteringly announced, and the girl flushed.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck