Besides, you know, you have got to comfort my mother, and keep up her spirits, and I quite rely upon you to do that." "I will try, Dick," she said earnestly.
"Now, goodbye, Annie." He held out his hand, but she threw her arms round his neck, and kissed him.
"You have never kissed me, not once," she said reproachfully, "and you were going away without it, now.

Your mother kisses me, and the English girls in the harem always used to do so." "But that is different, Annie.

Girls and women do kiss each other, but boys and girls do not kiss, unless they are brothers and sisters, or are relations, or something of that sort." "But you are not a boy.

You are a great big man, Dick." "I am not much more than a boy yet, Annie.

However, there is no harm in kissing, when one is saying goodbye, so there.
"Now be a good girl, and don't fret;" and he ran downstairs to the door, where his uncle and the two boys were standing.
"Take care of yourself, lad," the Rajah said, as, after bidding them goodbye, Dick sprang upon his horse.