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The feeling did not pass off, and I actually discovered that I was dreading my visit to Phoebe, only of course I scouted it as nonsense. Miss Locke was out, and Kitty opened the door. Her demure little face brightened when she saw me, and especially when I placed a large brown-paper parcel in her arms, of that oblong shape dear to all doll-loving children, and bade her take it into the kitchen.

"Marjorie, you oughtn't to have asked me that. I can't explain very well. I " He stumbled and He stopped, for the girl had turned astonished eyes upon him. "Explain what?" she asked with demure wonder. "It's all right. I came near asking Jason to marry me." "Marjorie!" exploded Gray. "Well!" A negro boy burst down the path, panting: "Miss Marjorie, yo' mother says you an' Mr.

You are a determined young person. Well, what happened that time?" An almost imperceptible alteration in her bearing; a slight droop of her head perhaps a mere nothing made her look more demure than ever. "I had left the cottage," she began a little hurriedly. "I was walking along the road you know, the road. I had made up my mind I was not coming back this time."

Was there anything of welcome in the demure smile? He followed her; his face was pale, though he knew it not; in the dusk of the room he was left alone. But what was this on the table? He almost uttered a cry as his bewildered eyes fixed themselves on it. The very bouquet he had sent the previous evening; and behold behold! the red rose wanting!

In fact Did you know that he has saved up money to attend a university?" "When did he tell you that? How long has he been planning I thought that I " "Just this morning; just now." "Oh! I'm relieved." "I don't quite follow you, dolly, but Where was I? Do you realize what a demure tyrant you are?

She sprang to her feet and ran lightly up-stairs; but, fast as she fled, thought outran her slender flying feet, and she came at last very leisurely into Celia's room, a subdued, demure opportunist, apparently with nothing on her mind and conscience,

"But I understood that you had the notes with you," Blaine commented, then paused as a faint smile broke over her face and a demure dimple appeared in either cheek. "I gave to him a note-book," she explained naïvely. "He was quite pleased, I think, to get possession of it. No one can read my shorthand but me, anyway, so one book did him as much good as another.

Julia did not look it, in the demure regard which she bent upon her amusing mother, and Breckon persisted in refusing. He said he thought he might safely leave them to Boyne, and Mrs. Rasmith said into her handkerchief, "Oh yes! Boyne!" and pressed Boyne's sleeve with her knobbed and jewelled fingers.

St. John had already gone off to his field-work, his mother told me. She was so lovely, and the room in which I ate breakfast so neat and demure with its whitewashed walls pure and stainless like country snow that I managed to swallow everything but the coffee. O that coffee! I had to nibble at a bit of chocolate I carried to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

Jack stared in amazement, but the meekest, most demure of maidens confronted him from the opposite chair, with eyes so translucently candid, lips so guilelessly sweet, that it seemed incredible that any hidden mischief could lurk behind the innocent question. Nevertheless seven years' intimacy with Miss Margot made Jack Martin suspicious of mischief. "What do you know about this editor man?