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A track of blood in the snow could not be brighter. The margravine repeated, 'A track of blood in the snow! My good young man, you have excited forms of speech. I shuddered. Ottilia divined that her burning blush had involved me.
He led the regiment after the colonel and major fell and he did it splendidly, too." There was a chorus from the young lady and the boys together. "Oh, Hugh, you hear what he says!" exclaimed the former, turning to her cousin. "Oh, I am so glad that he thinks so!" Then, recollecting that she was paying him the highest compliment, she suddenly began to blush, and turned once more to him.
It is not because their cause is good, but because they are kept from denying of him professedly; wherefore, for such he will force himself, and will set his face like a flint, and will, without shame, own, plead, and improve his interest with God for them, even for them whose cause is so horribly bad and gross that themselves do blush while they think thereof. But what will not love do?
A burning blush shot up to the girl's golden hair at this information. "He told me to to cling to him," she said, in a low tone. "Of course; and it showed his good sense, too, for it was the only thing that saved your life, dear child," replied the nurse; "and it seemed as if he had not one thought for himself, then nor since, for his first question, when the doctor goes to him, is about you."
A deep blush overspread the fair face and neck, while her work fell from her hand and her eyes sought the floor. When at length he paused for a reply, she started up, saying confusedly, in low, tremulous tones, "I I am far from meriting the praises you have heaped upon me, and I am very young and foolish not fit for for so noble and good a man so worthy to be highly honored.
Bruce remarked the unusual animation of her eyes as she looked at him. "You feel all I say of Wallace," said he. And it was not a charge at which she need blush. It was addressed to that perception of exalted worth which regards neither sex nor age. Helen did not misapprehend him. The amiable frankness of his manner seemed to open to him her heart.
They might easily doubt the evidence of their eyes, for the slim figure they had known so well had rounded until it showed softly blooming curves, and colouring which put to blush the cosmetics which the society girl had not altogether eschewed, though it had been long before the less sophisticated cousin had found this out.
Timéa stood as if petrified, and let her folded hands fall into her lap. She did not blush or become paler. There was no name for what she felt. Perhaps Athalie knew that this cruel jest was not calculated to enhance her charms, and tried to lessen its effect. "Come, Timéa," she said; "I only waited for you. Come and put on my veil." The bridal veil!
"Not my stay; for I won't go one step of the way without you, unless you order me!" she added, sportively, and with a vivid blush; "and I'm not sure that I'll do it even in that case." "Oh, yes you will," he said, laughingly. "You know you promised to be always good and obedient on condition that I would love you and keep you; and I'm doing both to the very best of my ability."
With downcast eyes and a blush on her cheeks that would have exonerated Eve, she wound up her hair again, and restored her own hold on her apron. "I did not kiss you then, Vesty." "Well, of course." "I'm good, but my mind is still on you." Over ledges and salt marshes, and the thin, storm-broken trees, and out there on the water there 's a strange color growing.
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