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Bessie wore a broad shady hat, yet not shady enough to conceal the impetuous blushes that mantled her cheeks on her companion's evasion. She felt what it was the prelude to. Mr.
In early spring there is a fresher touch of green on all the spaces of grass, the distance grows less mellow and more radiant; by the coming of May the green has been imperceptibly dimmed again; it blushes with the mingled colours of minute and numberless flowers a dust of flowers, in lines longer than those of ocean billows.
One day Florence was amazed at receiving a visit from Mr. Toots, who entered the room with much hesitation, and, with a series of chuckles, laughs, and blushes, informed her that he had brought her little Paul's pet, the dog Diogenes, as a companion in her loneliness. "He ain't a lady's dog, you know," said Mr. Toots, "but I hope you won't mind that.
The boat having been drawn unnoted into deeper water, a cunning negro boy who was aboard contrived to slide down one side without remark, and the next trophy of the feminine chase was a red boiled crab, artificially attached to a chocolate caramel, and landed with mingled feelings by the pretty fisherwoman. Then what a tumult of laughter, feigned anger and becoming blushes!
"When you speak to him he never answers blushes instead." "Poor child!" "He has read of eloquent blushes, and thinks there is no need to reply in words blushing must be such an interesting and effective substitute." "Poor boy, he wants a little judicious kindness. We will have him here." "Here!" cried the old gentleman, with horror.
She saw his reluctance to speak about it, and she blushed when she mentioned the night at the Pantheon; but for her life she could not help talking of the pleasure she had had. Her blushes seemed like the promise of spring roses to her lover, who drank of the air of her presence till that subtle ether ran like fire through his veins.
Madame recognised with a pleasure, always fresh in the minds of women, the omnipotence of her magnificent regard by the answer which, without saying a word, the chevalier made to it. And in fact, the blushes which empurpled his cheeks spoke better than the best speeches of the Greek and Latin orators, and were well understood.
"Promise that you will look on me as one of your most devoted friends. He took her hand again. "Can you indeed feel friendship for one you cannot respect?" she returned, in a low tone, with one of the quick, vivid blushes which usually rose to her cheek when she was much moved. "But I do respect you. Why should I not?
T. from your part of the country. As a general rule the old gentleman will then give you his whole history. Another time you may say, 'What a pleasant young man that Mr. B. is! but rather inclined to be wild, eh? If he is you will soon know it. You can also cross-question the man himself. Speak of a little girl he has at home: if he blushes he is netted already, and lures are useless.
Ay, is there not meaning in it? And now, what is gone, or rather what is not gone? Childhood is gone, with all its blushes and fairness, with all its health and wantoning, with all its smiles like glimpses of heaven, and all its tears which were but the suffusion of joy.
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