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What a contrast, in a woman's eyes, to the shy, pale, melancholy man, in the ill-fitting black clothes, with the wandering, uneasy glances, who stood beneath him, and felt, and showed that he felt, his inferior position keenly! In spite of herself, the treacherous blush flew over Isabel's face, in Moody's presence, and with Moody's eyes distrustfully watching her.
"How did you make it, Dan?" asked Lily, with a smile, which fully spoke the offender's pardon. "I put the coffee in, and then the water," replied the amateur cook, with a blush. "Hot water?" "No, cold." Lily laughed aloud at this blunder, and then gave him a receipt for making good coffee, which included the use of boiling water and fish-skin.
"Possibly I might had I never seen you," answered Frank. At a late hour that night Florence moved with soft footsteps about her sleeping room, fearing lest she should awaken Fanny. Her precautions were useless, for Fanny was awake; looking at Florence, she said, "Oh, Flory, you naughty girl, what makes you blush so dreadfully?"
Verona, stormy centre of strife, whose scarred grey face still wears a blush when viewed from the ramp of the Giusti garden, was in those times a place of short and little ease. The swords were never rusty.
This done, he could stand before the altar with Sybil Merton, and give his life into her hands without terror of wrongdoing. This done, he could take her to his arms, knowing that she would never have to blush for him, never have to hang her head in shame. But done it must be first; and the sooner the better for both.
Cornelia immediately kissed her soft fingers to him twice, and then vanished from the room, looking more like a blush than a tea rose. Before long she returned with the sick man's breakfast on a tray. "Do you like to be nursed?" asked she, as she put the tray on a table, and moved it up to the bedside. "No!" said Bressant, emphatically, and with an intonation of great surprise.
Her eyes lighted up and moistened with tenderness. She could not wait for him to join her; she started forward with outstretched hands. "You are not displeased?" she asked, with a blush. "I did so want to see you! Oh, to think that we must part so soon!" "I suppose you've heard all about last night?" asked Dick, hoarsely. "Yes. Mr. Ormsby called to see father for a moment.
She has not too many pleasures of any sort, and meeting you is one of the greatest. The blush in Greif's cheek deepened. Again he set his feet firmly before him and braced himself in his seat as though to resist a shock. He hated himself for betraying his feeling in his face, and wished it were night.
"With a heart around them, like the ones on this tree?" she asked, pointing to a rude carving on the trunk against which she leaned. "Yes, with a heart around them," he repeated. "But there's only one name you would carve that way, and put an arrow through it," she said, meaningly. "At any rate, a silver arrow. Oh, maybe you think I haven't seen her wear it, and blush when I teased her about it."
At length, looking at the mountain peak above them, they saw its snows begin to blush red with the coming of the dawn, and just then also they heard many voices talking within the tunnel, and caught glimpses of lights flashing through the openings in their rude fortifications.
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