She put her fat white arms round the person's neck who happened to be carrying her.

She is very affectionate, but by holding her very close to you you can keep her from kissing your face all the time.

As Alice said, 'Bulldogs do give you such large, wet, pink kisses.' A mile is a good way when you have to take your turn at carrying Martha.
At last we came to a hedge with a ditch in front of it, and chains swinging from posts to keep people off the grass and out of the ditch, and a gate with 'The Cedars' on it in gold letters.

All very neat and tidy, and showing plainly that more than one gardener was kept.

There we stopped.