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The small dusky, crooked place tries by a hundred prompt pretensions, immediate contortions, rich mantling flushes and other ingenuities, to waylay your attention and keep it at home; but your consciousness, alert and uneasy from the first moment, is all abroad even when your back is turned to the vast alternative or when fifty house-walls conceal it, and you are for ever rushing up by-streets and peeping round corners in the hope of another glimpse or reach of it.
But when the sun sunk amid a flood of glory in the west, mantling the heavens and the earth with a thousand gorgeous dyes, then all was calm, and silent, and magnificent. The late swelling sail hung lifelessly against the mast; the seamen, with folded arms, leaned against the shrouds, lost in that involuntary musing which the sober grandeur of nature commands in the rudest of her children.
A fresh young cheek whose olive hue The mantling blood shows faintly through; Locks dark as midnight, that divide And shade the neck on either side; Soft, gentle, loving eyes that gleam Clear as a starlit mountain stream; So looked that other child of Shem, The Maiden's Boy of Bethlehem!
His joy and mantling smiles I shall not forget, though the donor gave it to him with unconcealed disgust; it showed what universal suffrage led to. The doctor and the other defeated candidates, who had been asked to retire to a private room during the process of decision, were now obliged to emerge in mortified procession, there being no other mode of egress. The doctor's face was a study.
I fear you cannot help yourself. You forget, too, that I was the means of sending to prison even your Major Denham." "Major Denham is nothing " she began, impetuously, then hesitated, and he saw the rich color mantling her face even in the moonlight. After a second or two she added: "Our officers were captured in fair fight. That is very different from taking a wounded man and a guest."
The men of Horlingdal have held a Thing, and Glumm and I have been deputed to see the King, convey to him their sentiments, and ask his intentions." A grim smile played on the jarl's fine features for a moment, as he observed the blood mantling to the youth's forehead. "No good will come to thee or thine, kinsman, by meeting the King with a proud look.
"Finding the red ear?" queried Isaac Coffin. "Oh no, you know I didn't mean that; but having such a jolly time with nobody saying it isn't proper," Miss Shrimpton replied with a blush mantling her cheek. "Ruth, daughter," it was Mrs. Newville calling her to meet other guests, and Miss Newville turned regretfully away, for it was a pleasure to talk with Mr.
How far Consuelo entirely believed and trusted her ingenious brother I do not know, nor even then cared to inquire. For there was a pretty mantling of her olive cheek, as I came forward with my offering, and a certain significant shyness in her manner that were enough to throw me into a state of hopeless imbecility.
Pickwick, with a smile mantling on his again good-humoured countenance, stepped forward, and said 'I beg the magistrate's pardon, but may I request a few minutes' private conversation with him, on a matter of deep importance to himself? 'What? said the magistrate. Mr. Pickwick repeated his request. 'This is a most extraordinary request, said the magistrate. 'A private interview?
What I want more than anything else is a quiet snug little evening with you alone, where I can talk to you and and we can be together by ourselves. You'd like it, wouldn't you?" She hesitated, and there was a novel confession of embarrassment in her mantling colour and down-spread lashes.
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