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The trip to the West was not as good as college, of course, but Allister would give her a chance for an education yet, when this pinched time that he was passing through was over. "I hate the thought of your going away," Sandy grumbled. "Girls ought to get married," he added, struggling confusedly with this first experience with femininism.
There are many of these timid little hearts that require to be encouraged. I said, "Go on, my child, go on." "My husband," she murmured confusedly, "will not abstain during Lent. Ought I to compel him, father?" "Yes, by persuasion." "But he says that he will go and dine at the restaurant if I do not let him have any meat. Oh! I suffer terribly from that.
And the whole company, on arriving, becomes confusedly engaged in reciprocal salutations: I salute you, you salute me, I salute you again, and you return it, and I re-salute you again, and I express that I shall never, never be able to return it according to your high merit, and I bang my forehead against the ground, and you stick your nose between the planks of the flooring, and there they are, on all fours one before the other; it is a polite dispute, all anxious to yield precedence as to sitting down, or passing first, and compliments without end are murmured in low tones, with faces against the floor.
As he came up to where she stood, she whispered softly: "I thank you!" and a gentle glance from the beautiful black eyes thrilled him with pleasure. Then seeing the other gentlemen preparing to descend also, her face became suffused with blushes. "I came to find a cushion for Frau von Trautenau," she remarked confusedly.
Garvey's features began to burn and glow. Then they seemed to coarsen and somehow slip confusedly together. He stared for a second it seemed only for a second into the visage of a ferocious and abominable animal; and then, as suddenly as it had come, the filthy shadow of the beast passed off, the mist melted out, and with a mighty effort over his nerves he forced himself to finish his sentence.
If he came he must come as an ordinary caller at the ordinary caller's hour. Seymour Portman called on her in the late afternoon of the day when she wrote to Craven. Just before his arrival she was feeling peculiarly blank and almost confusedly dull.
Beyond those regions, which escape all measure, I still confusedly perceive other stars, which can neither be counted nor distinguished. The earth, on which I stand, is but one point, in proportion to the whole, in which no bound can ever be found.
He was lost in thought, his book lay unheeded by his side, his silvered iron-grey hair was scattered confusedly upon his forehead as though his hand had been wandering among it while his thoughts were elsewhere, and his face looked worn.
She sought desperately for some topic of conversation that would lead the man's thoughts from the highboy and prevent the return of the mood she had discovered at the sale. "You Phares," she began confusedly, "you are going to baptize this next time, Aunt Maria thought." "Yes." The preacher looked at the girl. The exhilarating influence of the early June outdoors was visible in her countenance.
So the horse stood there, while seated all around him the people spake many things confusedly and three ways their counsel looked; either to cleave the hollow timber with the pitiless spear, or to drag it to the brow of the hill, and hurl it from the rocks, or to leave it as a mighty offering to appease the gods. And on this wise it was to be at the last.
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