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She seated herself at a table presently, and began to arrange the sketches in her portfolio. While she was doing this a servant announced Mr. Egerton. She rose hurriedly, blushing as I had rarely seen her blush before, and looking towards the open window near her, almost as if she would have liked to make her escape from the room.
I felt myself blushing. "There must be," thought I, "some law against ink-stains, some decree, some regulation, something drawn up for the protection of Early Texts. And the penalty is bound to be terrible, since it has been enacted by the learned; expulsion, no doubt, besides a fine an enormous fine. They are getting ready over there to fleece me.
Even the sun, which sets there in greater beauty than anywhere else blushing so deeply that the whole sky blushes with it, that the winding Venn rivulet hedged in by cushions of moss, that every pool, every peat-hole full of water reflects its beams ruddy-gold, and the sad Venn itself wears a mantle of glowing splendour even this sun brought no glaringly bright light with it.
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. How gladly would she have escaped, or have sunk into the earth!
'And where are you staying, Philippa? I repeated, to lead the conversation into a more agreeable channel. 'With a Mrs. Thompson, she replied; 'a lady connected with Sir Runan. 'Very well, let me call for your things tomorrow. I can pass myself off as your brother, you know. 'My half-brother, said Philippa, blushing, 'on the mother's side. The brave girl thought of everything.
"I'm not afraid of losing my money," said he, blushing; "but I've had enough play for one day." "You didn't get sick of it so easy when the luck was on your side," said Harris, who had lost money to Frank, and now wanted his revenge. "For instance, yesterday, when the Parrott was talking to the boy," said Seth.
For a time all was still, and then a little modest girl, Lily Gordon, her face blushing crimson, said: "I beg your pardon, monsieur, but haven't you taught music?" The veins in his forehead swelled, as, darting a wrathful look at poor Lily, he exclaimed, "Le Diabel! vat vous take me for? Von dem musique teacher, eh?"
"Ach," the hired girl said, blushing rosy, "don't go make so much fuss about it. Ain't we old enough to get married?" "I'm glad, Millie," Mrs. Reist told her. "Amos just needs a wife like you. He worried me long a'ready, goin' on all alone. Now I know he'll have some one to look out for him." "Finis! You're done for!" Phil said. "Lay down your arms and surrender.
"Doctor," said Phoebe, blushing, "I don't know what you will think of me, but I don't know his name. Laws forgive me, I never had the sense to ask it." A shade of suspicion crossed the doctor's face. Phoebe saw it, and colored to the temples. "Oh, sir," she cried piteously, "don't go for to think I have told you a lie! why should I? and indeed I am not of that sort, nor Dick neither.
Yet by taking the different developments of its flowers, even as they hang on the same tree, from the earliest bud to the full- blown rose, you may in effect pursue this vegetable growth through all its stages: you have before you the bony blushing little rose-bud, and the respectable 'mediaeval' full-blown rose.
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