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Upon my word, Bill, you've got your foot in the stirrup now! Hope you'll continue to be civil to poor devils like me." The speaker looked up smiling, but neither the tone nor the smile was really cordial. Ashe felt the embarrassment that he had once or twice felt before in telling Darrell news of good fortune.
Tom's embarrassment increased visibly, and there was mingled with it an odd appearance of apprehension, probably to relieve which he very deliberately took two long cheroots from his pocket, laid one on the desk for Crailey and lit the other himself, with extreme carefulness, at the candle.
When I asked her if she had hurt herself, she spoke to me without the slightest embarrassment or hesitation. "I twisted my foot in some way," she said, "and I do not know what I am going to do. It hurts me to make a step, and I am sure I cannot work my wheel." "Have you far to go?" I asked. "I live about two miles from here," she answered. "I do not think I have sprained my ankle, but it hurts.
He continued to puff at his pipe for a time with slight embarrassment, as I thought and I fully sympathized with him. Finally he blew a little cloud and commenced: "The position appears to be this: Here is a man seen to enter a certain house, who is shown into a certain room, and shut in.
The negotiations attempted with that power in regard to the interesting objects of boundary, navigation, and commerce, had been exposed to much delay and embarrassment, in consequence of the changes which the French revolution had effected in the political state of Europe.
"The queen bids you welcome," she said, and then after introducing Lady Peters, she added: "Should you not really have known me, Norman?" He had recovered from his first surprise, and Lady Peters, who watched him closely, fancied that she detected some little embarrassment in his manner.
Then he paused, and a troubled look overspread his face. "The fact is," he began awkwardly, "I only keep my diary in it, and as it is entirely, almost entirely, about my cases it may be awkward, that is, I mean . . ." He stopped, and I tried to help him out of his embarrassment. "You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end.
'Poor fellow, she said, stopping, 'you haven't a vest. 'No, he said; 'I wish I 'ad. Then she stood and gazed on him in silence, until, in his embarrassment, for he knew not how to look under this scrutiny, he pulled out his pipe and began to fill it with tobacco. 'Do you want a match? she asked. And before he had time to reply, she ran off and presently returned with more than one.
It was the regent's husband, Prince Ulrich von Brunswick, who that moment entered the room and calmly greeted Munnich. "You have here a rival, my husband," said the princess, without embarrassment; "and had I not already signed your diploma, it is very questionable whether I should now do it, now that I know Count Munich desires the appointment."
But if I expected her to show any embarrassment, I was disappointed. "Come in, Mr. Lester," she said. "I believe you have not met Señor Silva." The yogi had risen, and now he bowed to me. "Our encounters heretofore have been purely formal," he said, smiling. "I am happy to meet you, Mr. Lester." His manner was friendly and unaffected, and imperceptibly some of my distrust of him slipped away.
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