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A little black satanic imp peered coyly over her right shoulder. The inscription beneath her portrait read: Lorelei, the Sorceress. Your Future Foretold All Mysteries Explained Your Fate Read by the Stars Hidden Things Revealed Lost Property Recovered. Something about the gaudy and pretentious sign seemed to fascinate Colonel Witham.
Rather than that, she held them up to Catie coyly, as glimpses of opportunity and power which waited for her at the gateway of maturity: opportunity given only to the helpmeet of a man in the commanding position offered by his ministerial profession, power given to that helpmeet by reason of her position by his side.
Polly, I owe you twenty-five hundred dollars. Here's the money." "This is so sudden," she coyly observed. "My memory's poor, though, Johnny." "It's a promise I made myself: If I won this bet half of the winnings belonged to the babies' hotel." "Wait, Johnny," objected Polly, pushing the money away from her.
In this fevered and stricken African coast, you may know, there is luxuriance in every natural detail, an exuberance that is lavish to excess. Yet beauty lies somewhat coyly hid as though suffocated by over-abundance of crowding wonder. I detect, indeed, almost a touch of the monstrous in it all, a super-expression, as it were, that bewilders, and occasionally even may alarm.
I had to dance with the Count, taking the lady's part, and I should not have believed it of the old gentleman, while poising himself on his right tiptoe he whispered into my ear, 'Most incomparable of barons, my daughter Victorine is yours. "The lovely Victorine behaved rather coyly, as young ladies are apt to do under such circumstances.
"You summer folks beat me out!" she exclaimed. "Land! to see you rig up in all this trash and dance them funny dances is as good as a circus. I was watching you through the windows, me and some of the other girls." "Was Granville there?" asked Polly. "You go 'long," returned Luella, coyly. "I won't tell you whether he was or not."
There was something so trim and neat and altogether captivating to him in the slim energetic figure, in its short blue skirts and print jacket, as it whisked to and fro, inside and out, on its multifarious duties, and still more in the sweet, serious face, glimmering coyly in the shadow of the great sun-bonnet and always moulded to a fine, but, as it seemed to him, a somewhat unnatural gravity in his company.
He had chosen a place by the mantel, with one elbow resting upon it; and from this point of vantage his black eyes slowly swept the room, taking in now all its details a type-writer, a letter-file, a waste-paper basket that needed emptying, a man's worn bedroom slipper coyly projecting from under the leather couch, a litter of newspapers.
Love and Genius seemed to look out from them and then retire coyly, as if ashamed to have been seen at the lattice. Who could have had such a commanding brow but a woman of high intellect? Her nose defied description in those days.
Those eyes that dwelt so tenderly on mine; that hand whose pressure lingers yet in every nerve of my frame; those lips turned so coyly, yet, shall I say, reluctantly from me, all tell me that you love me; and my fears are banished. Love, which conquered my nature, will conquer the only thing I would desire to see altered in yours.
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