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The next thing Hester heard was a half-impetuous, half-shamefaced admission from Rose that she had resigned her post as assistant drawing-mistress at the Misses Stone's school. Hester looked grave on the instant. "What did you do that for?" she demanded gruffly. "Did you mention it to your sister? Have you told them at home?" "No," Rose was forced to own at least not till the deed was done.
She darted forward, clapped her hands together once, and then in rapid succession three or four times. Then rolling triumphantly something between her thumb and forefinger, she turned to Lydia. The little operation had not taken the third of a moment, but the change in the girl's face was so great that Mrs. Mortimer was moved to hasty, half-shamefaced, half-defiant apology.
It was the letter of a woman who had written because she wanted to write, not because she had anything to say, and Bunny's eyes were very tender as he came to the end. He sat for a space gazing down at the signature, and at length with a gesture half-shamefaced he put it to his lips. "Yes, I've been a fool, Sheila," he said softly. "But, thank heaven, I was pulled up in time.
Think of that!" he looked at her half-shamefaced, half-laughing "Falloden!" Her eyes shone. "I'm glad!" she said softly. "I'm glad!" "Yes, but do you know why he's kind why he's here at all?" he asked her abruptly. "What's the good of silly questions?" she said hastily. "Take it as it comes." He laughed.
An old bronzed sergeant led a child with one hand, and with the other tried to obey her shrill directions about whirling a skipping-rope, so that she might skip beside him; he looked at us with a half-proud, half-shamefaced smile, calling down a rebuke for his inattention from the girl.
Steve's love for An-ina was built upon the unshakable foundations of perfect understanding. He strode out towards the gates, and the lovers heard the splash of his boots as he waded the melting snow. They turned. And it was Marcel who made half-shamefaced explanation. "I was telling Keeko of the weed," he said.
He looked at her half-shamefaced, half-ready to resent it if she laughed at him. Her eyes laughed. 'I thought you'd forgotten that. I saw you mark the catalogue. 'Beech and oak between two and three hundred years old in exchange for Greek gems, between two and three thousand. Well I'll consider it. Now then, are you feeling better?
But his oaths had more effect upon his unruly followers than his protests, and they sat looking at him in a half-sullen, half-shamefaced manner, and would have probably succumbed to his influence had not attention been diverted and aroused by the reappearance of Stango, who staggered in with four or five great black bottles heaped high in his arms.
There was a certain half-shamefaced reserve about his visits. He knew well enough that people looked from their windows as he passed, and said, facetiously, "There goes Richard Alger to court Sylvy Crane." He preferred slipping past in a half-light, in which he did not seem so plain to himself, and could think himself less plain to other people.
'Nothing very bad; but 'Frisco isn't just a heaven on earth, you know, and it's harder to be a saint there than here, he answered slowly; then, as if he had made up his mind to ''fess', as the children used to say, he sat up, and added rapidly, in a half-defiant, half-shamefaced way, 'I tried gambling, and it wasn't good for me. 'Was that how you made your money? 'Not a penny of it!
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