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We will spare the blushes of the hero of this occasion, who was threatened with suffocation by an inundation from the back seats. In answer to the congratulations and queries, he replied modestly that nobody else seemed to have had the sand to do it, so he did it himself.

To see the same moon, all silver'd as of yore, I feel the sad thoughts within me arise; The fond recollections of the troth we swore, Of the field and the bower and the wide seashore, The blushes of joy, with the silence and sighs.

They offered the woman sixpences, and blushes, because through the tattered shawl might be seen a shrunken bosom. The woman stared, stammered, and burst into tears. "We shall miss Chapel," John repeated. "Hang Chapel," said Desmond. He was looking at the child. When the woman took the silver, she let the child slip to the ground, where it lay inert. "What's the matter with it?" said Desmond.

I have dim recollections of the preparation of the trousseau by the nimble fingers of the officers' wives, of the pleasureable excitement and merry chat over the unusual event, and of the starting off of the excursion on that long, cold ride, the "good-byes," the tears, the smiles and the blushes, and of the hearty welcome home of the beautiful, happy bride, and the proud but dignified bridegroom, and I there and then yielded my fealty to the sweet child-wife, and always loved her as a dear relative.

In the fire of my anguish, my love has become purified and hardened; in this flame it has forgotten its girlish blushes, and is unbending and unconquerable. I have baptized it with my tears; I have taken it to my heart, as a mother takes her new-born child whose existence is her condemnation, her dishonor, her shame; whom she loves boundlessly, and blesses even while weeping over it!

Roundjacket to give the advice, might have been been peculiar." And Miss Lavinia smooths down her black silk with dignity. "Peculiar?" "Yes," says the lady, glancing this time at Redbud. "How was it, Verty?" the Squire says, turning to the young man. Verty, conscious of his secret, blushes and stammers; for how can he tell the Squire that Mr.

He was small of stature and slight in frame, like Hamilton, but he had none of Hamilton's personal magnetism. His manner was shy and prim, and blushes came often to his cheeks. At the same time, he had that rare dignity of unconscious simplicity which characterizes the earnest and disinterested scholar.

"I always fancy myself in Arcady when I am near you," he said tenderly. "Why? because you find me very idle?" "Oh, no; but Arcady, you know, was the abode of sylvan queens dryads and oreads and naiads," said the classic Jacques; "and you are like them." "Like a dryad?" "They were very beautiful." Belle-bouche blushed again; and to conceal her blushes bent over the screen. Jacques sighed.

Perhaps it was to hide burning blushes, and something very like two hot tears, which fell unobserved into the ripple. Now she looked up suddenly 'And of course you have killed some of these dreadful creatures, Amalric? 'I never had such good luck, darling. Our forefathers were in such a hurry with them, that by the time we were born, there was hardly one left. 'Ay, they were men, growled Wulf.

All at once, ere I could draw a breath, she had stooped and kissed me ever so lightly on the forehead. The door opened upon Aunt Lucy. She had but to look at us, and her black face beamed at our blushes. My lady threw her arms about her neck, and hid her face in the ample bosom. "Now praise de good Lawd!" cried Mammy; "I knowed it dis longest time. What's I done tole you, Miss Dolly?