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Stevens looked and listened, and half forgot himself in the breathlessness of his attention his eye fastened with a gaze of absolute devotion on her features, until, having finished her song, she detected the expression of his face, and started, with blushing cheeks, to her feet.
Then, pulling out her watch, "It is high time for little folks to be in bed." Elsie, blushing deeply, would have retired immediately, but her father held her fast, saying, as he gave his stepmother an angry glance, "You need not go, Elsie, unless you choose; I am quite capable of judging when it is time to send you to bed."
Isn't he handsome, now?" This was a very severe ordeal for Ishmael. The young ladies had all gathered around Claudia, and were examining her favourite. Ishmael felt his face burn until it seemed as if the very tips of his ears would take fire. "Isn't he handsome, now, Bee?" pursued the relentless Claudia, appealing to her cousin. Beatrice was blushing in intense sympathy with the blushing youth.
At last the great day arrived on which Camille and Josephine were to be married at Frejus. The mayor awaited them at eleven o'clock. The cure at twelve. The family had been duly prepared for this excursion by several smaller ones. Rose announced their intention over night; a part of it. "Mamma," said she, blushing a little, "Colonel Dujardin is good enough to take us to Frejus tomorrow.
And it seemed somehow more than a jest, for the gallant soldier now suddenly forgot all about the skein entrusted to him, and with tender emotion pressed his blushing little wife to his bosom. The little lady with infinite patience slowly disentangled the chaotic labyrinth of threads again, and then exclaimed with a deep sigh: "Life and death lie between..."
Gaston responded to the artist; but to the woman no. He had seen a new life, even in its abandon, polite, fresh. It amused him, but he could still turn to the remembrance of Delia without blushing, for he had come to this in the spirit of the idler, not the libertine. Mademoiselle Cerise said to Ian at last: "Enfin, is the man stone? As handsome as a leopard, too! But, it is no matter."
How many of us, now speaking man to man can open up our veiled thoughts and desires and then look the Ten Commandments in the eye without blushing? The bravest, noblest, gentlest gentleman I have ever known was the Count de la Fere, whom we at the Hotel de Troisville, in old Paris, called "Athos." He was not merely sans peur et sans reproche as Bayard, but was positive in his virtues.
Wallflowers grew against the pink stone walls, and there is no beautiful word in any beautiful language that can describe the effect of that modest, rose-hued dwelling blushing against a background of heather-brown hills covered solidly with golden gorse bushes in full bloom. Himself and I have always agreed to spend our anniversaries with Mrs.
Accordingly, she said, blushing, that she was ready to do his every commandment, but might not avail thereto till such time as Ferondo should be gone to purgatory; whereupon quoth the abbot, exceeding well pleased, 'And we will make shift to send him thither incontinent; do you but contrive that he come hither to-morrow or next day to sojourn with me. So saying, he privily put a very handsome ring into her hand and dismissed her.
The next moment they both stepped back from the window and stared at the girl, who stood blushing and embarrassed, and gazed at the floor when she found with whom she had been left alone. They were two tribunes of the praetorians, but, notwithstanding their high grade, they were only young men of about twenty.
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