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I blush to chronicle it. There were so many shows in town that the supply of college students didn't come up to the demand, and as me and the bunch had sorta turned them down after they went and lost all their money on the Thanksgiving game, so we had an intimation that developed into a hunch that our little 'welcome' mat on the doorstep would not be crowded with an eager throng.
At any moment it might have been thought that he was going to blush. She was a queen, he a child; and now all at once the roles are changed; it is the submissive subject who arrives in the college cap of a professor, hiding under his arm an unknown and mysterious book. Is the man in the college cap about to command, to smile, to obtrude himself and his books, to speak Latin, to deliver a lecture?
"Indeed, I don't know," said Ranald. "Why should you care? You do not know him." "But haven't you just told me how splendid he was, and how good he was to you, and how much you thought of him, and " Maimie checked her rush of words with a sudden blush, and then hurried on to say, "Besides, think of his mother, and all of them."
With a blush expressing at once pleasure, gratitude, and bashfulness, Lucy curtsied to Hazlewood, but to Dinmont she frankly extended her hand. The honest farmer, in the extravagance of his joy, carried his freedom farther than the hint warranted, for he imprinted his thanks on the lady's lips, and was instantly shocked at the rudeness of his own conduct.
Lianor smiled tremulously through her tears, and a blush mantled to her cheeks. "You have saved my life. I can never repay you," earnestly. Panteleone, still pale and anxious, now appeared leading the little widow, who seemed overjoyed at her release. She sank down gladly beside Lianor, and then the palanquin was borne away, guarded by Luiz and Panteleone, Satzavan walking behind.
Henrietta was too much afraid of him even to blush at this question, she only glanced at him with timid, suspicious eyes and said nothing. "Don't be afraid, sisterkin," continued Mr. John encouragingly. "I'll bring you such a nice bridegroom that even your grandpapa, when he sees him, will snatch up his crutches in order to go and meet him half-way."
Henrietta felt her cheeks warming again and was annoyed at herself that she should blush in this way when, as she scolded herself, "there was no reason for it." "I don't know that he did, particularly," she said defensively. "His coming was rather curious and you and mother seemed interested and wanted to know all about him."
Superior, however, to unwarrantable prejudices and ridiculous vanity, Boaz listened to the tale and immediately addressed her in affectionate terms. It is by no means improbable, that a blush of shame crimsoned his cheek, from the recollection of his past negligence in suffering Naomi to pine away in solitary sadness and penury, when it was in his power to have afforded her relief.
In this harsh world it draws its breath in pain " "It's the healthiest child I ever saw!" she indignantly corrected. "You've seen it, then?" Again the accusing blush suffused her. "Yes I've seen it." "And to whom does the paragon belong?" And here indeed she confounded him. "To me I hope," she declared. He pushed his chair back with an inarticulate murmur. "To you ?" "To us," she corrected.
But it did beat all, how that little thing, when she stood ready, seemin'ly, to tackle the nation I've seen her jump up in a chair, afraid of a mice. The idee of anybody bein' afraid of a mice, and ready to tackle the Constitution! And she'd blush up red as a rosy if a stranger would speak to her. But she would fight the hull nation for her boy.
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