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And when he spoke of his new friend, the young musical apostle who had reclaimed him, there was a note which pleased her. She began to smile upon him more freely; the sadness of her little face grew sweet. And suddenly the young man stopped and looked at her. He reddened; and she flushed too, not knowing why. "Well, that's where 'tis," he said, moving towards her on the seat. "I'm going to get on.

'I should not object, if I had one; but I have not. He reddened and was much confused as he gave the answer. 'At least, said Mr Inspector, with no change of voice or manner, 'you will not object to write down your name and address? 'Not at all. Mr Inspector dipped a pen in his inkstand, and deftly laid it on a piece of paper close beside him; then resumed his former attitude.

Calling them emotions, each declared itself with absolute distinctness, and the one last to come was most decided and enduring. Thus he met her gaze, and so ardent, intense and continuous was his, that she reddened cheek and forehead, and drew down the veil; but not, it should be understood, resentfully.

Ezpecially if you would do uz that one favor, lazd thing when you are going to bed the night we are married. Yez, if you would ahem! juz' blow yo' gas without turning it?" That evening, when the accepted Irby, more nearly happy than ever before in his life, said good-night to his love they did not kiss. At the first stir of proffer Flora drew back with a shudder that reddened his brow.

Laura rose hastily, and her face reddened. "I know. You thought it wasn't decent. Is that it?" "Oh, not exactly; only well, you see I'm gettin' along pretty good now. I got a little one-night stand theatre out in Ohio manager of it, too. The town is called Gallipolis." "Gallipolis?" she echoed, puzzled. "Oh, that ain't a disease," he smiled. "It is the name of a town.

The sudden flush that reddened her daughter's face at once made the Baroness suspicious and then watchful, and the girl's confusion and the light in her eyes soon betrayed the mystery so badly guarded in her simple heart. Count Steinbock, dressed in black, struck the Baron as a very gentlemanly young man. "Would you undertake a bronze statue?" he asked, as he held up the group.

At mention of Joçint’s name he reddened: then followed the acknowledgment that the youth in question had caused him to lose his temper and forget his dignity during the afternoon. “In what way?” asked Thérèse. “It would be better to dismiss him than to rail at him. He takes reproof badly and is extremely treacherous.” “Mill hands are not plentiful, or I should send him off at once.

The silence of the unpeopled Syrian plains, the out-comings and in-goings of the patriarchs, Abraham and Ishmael, Isaac in the fields at eventide, Rebekah at the well, Jacob's guile, Esau's face reddened by desert sun-heat, Joseph's splendid funeral procession, all these things I find within the boards of my Old Testament.

It was a gymnastic exercise rather than a dance, the delirium of an acrobat, a phrenetic movement like the war dances of African tribes. The woman neither perspired nor flushed; she continued her turning, coldly, never accelerating her pace, while her companion, dizzy from his velocity, panted for breath with reddened face, at last retiring tremulous with fatigue.

Some were in small fragments, the others merely torn in half. Though there were not many, thus spread out they nearly covered the table. Lily's glance fell on a word here and there then she said in a low voice: "What do you wish me to pay you?" Mrs. Haffen's face reddened with satisfaction. It was clear that the young lady was badly frightened, and Mrs.