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The conjecture that she was shielding a lover, was accompanied by so keen a pang of jealous pain, that it allowed him no room to doubt the nature or intensity of the feeling which she had inspired.
So, it seemed, he had all along been her dupe; all the while that he had been ostentatiously shielding her from harm and diffidently discovering every evidence of devotion, she had been laughing in her sleeve and planning to return to the service she pretended to despise, with her report of a fool self-duped. A great anger welled in his bosom.
I muttered I scarcely know what words in reply. It was close on midnight before I went to bed. When I entered her room, shielding the light of the candle with my hand, she was still awake. Nestling against the pillows, she stretched herself curiously and smiled up at me. "I thought you were never coming, dear," she said. I knew that I was very pale, but she did not remark it.
Not that the director could put his finger on any one suspicious point in the behavior of Burgeman, senior; but it left him with the distinct impression that the father was shielding the son. "Aye, that's what Billy said his father would do shield him out of pride." Patsy dusted the flour from her arms and stood motionless, thinking.
But she rested a little and this mood, foreign to her intrepid heart, passed, and she sat up, again resolute, again ready to make her fight as long as life beat through her blood. At last she took the one match from her pocket. She scarcely dared breathe when, with dry grass and twigs piled against a rock, her dress shielding them from the wind, she rubbed the match softly against her boot.
How she owns that it is she and not the man who is guilty; how she takes all the faults on her side; how she courts in a manner punishment for the wrongs which she has not committed and persists in shielding the real culprit! It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them.
He had pulled a match from his pocket, and as he ended the incantation which contained no words that it seemed likely the Egyptian had ever heard he stooped in the little crowd of his relations and the priest and struck the match on his boot. He stood up, shielding the flame with one hand. 'See? he said, with modest pride. 'Here, take it into your hand.
My mother thought I was obeying her, but I was really shielding you on account of that letter." "Give me the letter, love, and I'll show it to Jennings." "No," said Miss Saxon, shrinking back; "get him to drop the case." "Why?" asked Cuthbert dryly.
"I thought this, and then in the next moment I feared that Margaret might cling persistently to the dreadful duty of her life the duty of shielding and protecting a criminal; the duty of teaching a wicked man to repent of his sins.
Wasn't I there with Long Aleck when you got away with the gold Hoban hid in our nosebag other side o' Geelong? 'You're on the wrong scent. My name is Done. I'm a new chum, landed only this morning off the Francis Cadman. 'Here, let's look you over again. The stranger struck a match, and, shielding it with his hands, examined Jim's face. 'Dunno, he said, 'but p'r'aps you are a bit young.
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