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Won't you tell us the names of the first two that were appointed?" Tom was tugging at a button-hole and looking sheepish. He blushed, now, and his eyes fell. Mr. Walters' heart sank within him. He said to himself, it is not possible that the boy can answer the simplest question why DID the Judge ask him? Yet he felt obliged to speak up and say: "Answer the gentleman, Thomas don't be afraid."
A beautiful story she told him; so beautiful, in fact, that until she had discoursed ten minutes he hardly recognized his own feat; but when he did he blushed inside as well as out with pleasure. Oh! music of music praise from eloquent lips, and those lips the lips we love. The next moment he felt ashamed; ashamed that Lady Barbara should praise him beyond his merits, as he conceived.
Carvel must needs go up to her and hold her at arm's length in admiration, and then kiss her on both her cheeks. Whereat she blushed right prettily. "Bless me!" says he; "and can this be Richard's little playmate grown? Upon my word, Miss Dolly, you'll be the belle of the ball. Eh, Lloyd? Bless me, bless me, you must not mind a kiss from an old man.
"Even if it were true and real, all you say, it may not be for long. Some day, you don't know how soon, you may have legitimate `woman's work' to do, love, and sympathy, and care, and all the rest, without encroaching on Fanny's domain." He began gravely, but blushed and stammered; and glanced with laughing deprecation at his sister, as he ended. She did not laugh. "I have thought of that, too.
"I know your powers, you see," said I, and she blushed with pleasure. "It's not only that, sir, that keeps him away. He's very busy at the Castle." "But there's no shooting on now." "No, sir; but he's in charge of the house." "Johann turned housemaid?" The little girl was brimming over with gossip. "Well, there are no others," said she. "There's not a woman there not as a servant, I mean.
Would you believe it, boys, all the time I've known the villain it never occurred to him to ask me? 'I'd ask yer quick enough, b'gosh! blurted Con. Jim blushed. 'She wouldn't have me, he cried in self-defence. 'At laste ye might have given a poor girl the refusal. 'Take me, then, said Jim through the soapsuds. He was washing over a bucket. 'I will not.
Nellie blushed too; but she was not angry, though her father might have been, if he had heard the remark. "Is Captain Patterdale on board?" shouted Mr. Beardsley, as the Juno ran under the stern of the Penobscot. "Here," replied the captain. "I want to see you and Don John," added the officer.
Get some holy water and sprinkle the floor." Gwen watched the musician as closely as his labors would allow, for he did not like the way the fiddler had of looking at Louison, and he thought to himself that Louison never blushed so prettily for him. Forgetting himself when he saw the fiddler smile at the girl, he made a rush for the barrel where that artist was perched.
"The sea!" she cried, and then she closed her eyes and listened, and then opened them and blushed and said, while her knitted brows smoothed out and her beautiful face looked aside, "So it is yes, it is the sea."
He blushed, finding himself thus half detected; but, given up entirely to sinister presentiments, he insisted, "No, I do not doubt; but I cannot reconcile myself to the idea that you are going to live under the same roof with Miss Brandon, M. Elgin, and Mrs. Brian. Since this abominable adventuress must triumph, let us flee.
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