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"Pearl," the doctor said smiling, "Arthur's father sent me 50 pounds and a letter that will make me blush every time I think of it. Now I cannot take the money. The operation, no doubt, saved his life, but if it hadn't been for you there would have been no operation. I want you to take the money. If you do not, I will have to send it back to Arthur's father and tell him all about it."
They told me they'd seen you arriving this afternoon, and I couldn't help coming up." There was a pause between them, which Mrs. Lidcote at last surprisingly broke with the exclamation: "Ah, she did recognize me, then!" "Recognize you?" He stared. "Why " "Oh, I saw she did, though she never moved an eyelid. I saw it by Charlotte's blush. The child has the prettiest blush.
On the road he gathered a handful of flowers and herbs. His reception by the old woman was very different this time. "Come in, come in, God bless ye, an' hoo air ye, an' how is yer father an' mother come in an' set down, an' how is that spalpeen, Sam Raften?" "Sam's all right now," said Yan with a blush. "All right! Av coorse he's all right.
Wounded. Hurt, don't you know. Bitten. Oh, dash it. J'espère..." "Oh, bitten!" said Sally, dimpling. "Oh, no, thanks very much. I wasn't bitten. And I think it was awfully brave of you to save all our lives." The compliment seemed to pass over the young man's head. He stared at Sally with horrified eyes. Over his amiable face there swept a vivid blush. His jaw dropped.
She will overlook an old lady's whims and be quite willing enough to come, I'm sure, if you wish it." "I should like to have her meet you," admitted Bob, with a blush. "You mean you would like me to meet her," answered Madam Lee, with a confiding pat on his arm. "It is sweet of you, Bob, whichever way you put it. And after I have met the charmer you shall know exactly what I think of her, too.
Pierre's wife in no way gave evidence of it. The color had deepened to almost a blush in her cheeks, but it was not on account of embarrassment, for one who is embarrassed is not usually amused, and as she looked up at him her eyes were filled with the flash of laughter which he had caught her lips struggling to restrain.
O sir, ma'am, miss, Mrs. Beddoes, Miss Edgeworth: how glad I am!" He showed us his excellent house, and walked us round his beautiful little lawn and shrubberies, all his own making; and cut moss roses and blush roses for us with such eagerness and delight. "And all, all owing to you, sir, that first taught me." Mrs. Edgeworth writes: At Mrs.
Yes," added the young lady, with a touching expression, "yes of all confessions, I am about to make the most painful I love and I blush for my love." "Like myself!" cried Mother Bunch, involuntarily, clasping her hands together.
Rumors of every description were rife, and the many weird and impossible tales invented by the ship's cook and the captain's steward the men-o'-war oracles would have put even Baron Munchausen to the blush.
There was nothing in the appearance or manner of any of the maidens by whom we were surrounded, to denote which was the happy fair, neither, although I peered anxiously into all their countenances, could I there detect any blush of consciousness; so I was obliged to content myself with selecting the youngest and prettiest of the group, and go on weaving my romance to my own satisfaction.
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