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And then suddenly the wonderful grey-blue eyes under the long black lashes will gleam like coy diamonds, and such a hearty little chuckle will come from her that every one else is bound to laugh out of sympathy. She and Dimples are great allies and yet have continual lovers' quarrels. One night she would not even include his name in her prayers.
He thought only of the shy blushing beauty and coy grace of the young girl he never dreamed of the hour when he should look back to that moment, wondering at his own blind folly, with a curse on his lips. Again from over the trees came the sound of the great bell from the Hall. "It is eight o'clock," cried Daisy, in alarm. "Miss Pluma will be so angry with me." "Angry!" said Rex; "angry with you!
"The virtues of both lovers diffuse themselves through the lake. The infusion of masculine valour makes the fish active and sanguineous: the infusion of maiden modesty makes him coy and hard to win: and you shall find through life, the fish which is most easily hooked is not the best worth dishing. But yonder are the towers of Arlingford." The little friar stopped.
"For mercy's sake, let me get another one one with more style about it," he entreated; "my credit hangs on it!" "I am content," she said, "more than content. No more words I retain it. And you have pleased me by this conduct, my hairdresser. Unknown it may be, even to yourself, your heart is warming in the sunshine of my favour; you are coy and wayward, but you are yielding.
In shape, its upper part was like the top half of a loaf of bread. In motion, here, it rested on some sort of wheeled vehicle, and it was reared up like an indignant caterpillar, and a blue-white flame squirted out of its tail, with coy and frolicsome flirtings from side to side.
But I wrote a letter to him to send to-morrow morning for him to take my money for me, and so with good words I thought to coy with him. To bed. 8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. Batten, Col. Slingsby and I by coach to the Tower, to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner; where great good cheer. High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle, who is ever a plain homely dowdy.
This rich, coy nature, so untrodden, with all the grace of a bunch of violets or a lily of the valley in the glade of a forest, is framed by an African desert banked by the ocean, a desert without a tree, an herb, a bird; where, on sunny days, the laboring paludiers, clothed in white and scattered among those melancholy swamps where the salt is made, remind us of Arabs in their burrows.
The Eunice had a fine passage and arrived at St. John on the 26th April, 1767. Moses Coburn settled on lot No. 23, not far below the present Sheffield Academy. The lot had been drawn by Edward Coy, one of the original grantees of the township, who took up his residence in Gagetown, but afterwards removed to Maugerville. Alexander Tapley was one of the passengers in the Eunice.
Then she added: "She lives in our street, nearly opposite." "Precisely. That's the reason why she thinks you coy or haughty. She has seen you so often and seems to know so much about you." "What does she know about me?" "Ah you must ask her I can't tell you!" "I don't care what she knows," said my young lady. After a moment she went on: "She must have seen I ain't very sociable."
"I'll teach the coy little beauty that others are not so blind as she is, and I imagine that, with Miss Hargrove's aid, I can disturb her serenity a little before many weeks pass." But a few days elapsed before Mr. Clifford, with Burt, Maggie, and Amy, made the call which would naturally inaugurate an exchange of social visits. Mr.
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