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A faint color came into Miss Bartram's cheeks, as they stood thus, for a moment, face to face. She seemed to be waiting for him to speak, but of this he never thought; had any words come to his mind, his tongue could not have uttered them. "It is not Harry," Betty explained, striving to hide her embarrassment. "This is Leonard Clare, who lives with us."
From his pillow Peter Keith had seen the look of fear and the paleness of her cheeks, but he was a long way from guessing the truth. Yet he thought he knew. For days yes, for weeks there had been that growing fear in her eyes. He had seen her mighty fight to hide it from him. And he thought he understood. "I know it has been a terrible winter for you, dear," he had said to her many times.
I refuse regretfully your explanation that it is my finger which is bigger; I should like to think that it were indeed so, and that the boys and girls of to-day find their crabs and starfishes in the size and quantity to which I was accustomed. But I am afraid we cannot hide it from ourselves that the supply is giving out.
A romantic story begun in a ball-room, she was not quite certain how. Morton remembered a drawing of fauns and nymphs. But there was hardly cover for a nymph to hide her whiteness. The ground was too open, the faun would soon overtake her. She could better elude his pursuit in the opposite wood.
You don't know what it is to have something to hide to go about with a secret gnawing at your heart never able to open your lips suffering night and day " He stopped suddenly and looked at his cousin with wonder; she was leaning back in her chair, her face was pale as death, and her lips parted in a dreary sigh.
The wish of every right-minded man in the country must be that the law will take its course and that as speedily as possible." "Well?" said Terry as I finished. "It's a lie," I cried hotly. "All of it?" "Every word of it!" "Oh, see here," said Terry. "There's no use in your trying to hide things. That account is an exaggeration of course, but it must have some foundation.
Travis spoke quickly to hide her bitterness. "He was so sure that what he had made was good an inventor has always, my dear, an irrational love for the thing he has created and to have it spurned! He was supersensitive, super everything. Then my own health went to pieces.
Again, "Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction: but in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold over thy servants. If thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and hide himself from thy face." What can be more strong and pointed than the following verse? "Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends."
In the bitter pang which wrung his heart, he, still too weak to hide his sufferings, was almost on the point of uttering a cry of alarm, and calling his guards to gather round him.
The fact was, he and Jimmy were both of them trying, after the manner of boys, to hide their real feelings. Nate knew that his conduct had been very shabby and contemptible, and he was ashamed of it, but did not like to say so. Jimmy, for his part, was glad to make up, but did not wish to seem too glad. Then they each tried to think of something else to say.
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