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Well, then, my dear," he added aloud, "do you still entertain the strong attachment you did to Captain Darrell?" Winifred's cheeks glowed with blushes, and fixing her eyes, which flashed with resentment, upon the questioner, she said: "I have promised to answer your question, and I will do so. I love him as a brother." "Only as a brother?" persisted Kneebone.

"Oh, Ishmael, dear, you were not to blame! it was not your fault! it was an accident a misfortune!" she exclaimed, as blushes burned upon her cheeks and tears suffused her eyes. "How much I blamed, how much I loathed myself, dearest Bee, you can never know! Let that pass. You found me as I said.

"She is more resigned, messire," replied the priest. "Now the Lord help her, she is hard to please!" sneered the old gentleman. "A likely stripling not ill-born and of her own choosing, too? Why, what more would the jade have?" "The situation is not usual for a young damsel," said the other, "and somewhat trying to her blushes." "She should have thought of that before she began the dance.

When she saw the minister, she started, but not as if with surprise; rather as if she had made ready to start. She stood at the foot of the steps, glowing with blushes, but still not confused. She smiled with friendly confidence. She was very pretty and she wore a delicious gown, if one were not a woman, to observe the lack of fashion and the faded streaks, and she carried a little silk work-bag.

It was three days since her accident in the wood, and she was anxiously looking forward to a second interview with her lover. A moment after, her face was suffused with blushes as she found herself confronted by the handsome stranger.

But in all such cases, the compliance of one party on account of the pre-eminence of station and condition of the other, effects only a servile and frigid conjunction; for the conjugial principle is not of the spirit and heart, but only nominal and of the countenance; in consequence of which the inferior party is given to boasting, and the superior blushes with shame.

Sigh round her, odorous winds; and, envious rose, So vainly envious, with such blushes gifted, Bow to her; die, strangled with jealous throes, O Bulbul! when she sings with brow uplifted; Gather her, happy youth, and for thy gain Thank Him who could such loveliness ordain.

They affirmed that she had even divined their thoughts, and had whispered in the ear of each the name of the person she liked best in the world, and informed them of what they most wished for. Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.

I see a man of wealth and title who will just come in in time to save you from shame and destruction, and with him you will be happy." "I could prove to you," replied the Cooleen Dawn, her face mantling with blushes of indignation, "that I am a better prophetess than you are. Ask her, papa, where she last came from." "Where did you come from last, Molly?" he asked.

The front door had just been opened; and a gentleman was descending the steps, a young gentleman in neat clerical garb, his guileless ecclesiastical countenance suffused with mantling blushes of confusion and delight. He stopped on the gravel path to receive the last words of Miss Octavia Bassett, who stood on the threshold, smiling down upon him in the prettiest way in the world.