She's rather spiteful, but warmhearted- awfully kind if you break your leg, said Valentia. "The Limit" by Ada Leverson

Yet no dog ever belied its looks more than did this one, for it was a good dog, and a warmhearted dog, and never did a wicked thing, and never was punished, so that its excessive humility and apparent fear and trembling were quite unaccountable. "The Lighthouse" by Robert Ballantyne