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'Thank him; thank him, said Carlo. She quitted her lover's side and went up to Wilfrid with a shyly extended hand. A carriage was drawn up by the kerbstone; the doors of it were open. She had barely made a word intelligible; when Major de Pyrmont pointed to some officers approaching. 'Get her out of the way while there's time, he said in French to Luciano. 'This is her carriage.
Each of the children had their gift for Milly too: Becky had plaited her a basket of rushes, a thing she had often tried to teach Milly how to make for herself, and Tiza pushed a bunch of wild raspberries into her hand, and ran away before Milly could say thank you; Bessie shyly produced a Christmas card that somebody had once sent to her; and even Charlie had managed to provide himself with a bunch of the wild yellow poppies which grew on the wall of the Ravensnest garden, and were a joy to all beholders.
It was a bookless house like most Australian houses of its kind: in Marina's bedroom alone stood a small bookcase containing school and Sunday school prizes. Laura was very fond of reading, and as she dressed that morning had cast longing looks at these volumes, had evenly shyly fingered the glass doors. But they were locked. Breakfast over, she approached Marina on the subject.
She took firm hold of his coat, and then turned and gazed shyly upon me her large splendid blue eyes gleaming through her golden curls.
"I'm much obleeged," she said, shyly. "I'd 'a' cooked hit fer ye if I'd 'a' knowed you wasn't goin' to take hit home." "That's the reason I didn't give it to you at first I was afraid you'd do that. I wanted you to have it." "Much obleeged," she said again, still unsmiling, and then she suddenly looked up at him the deeps of her dark eyes troubled. "Air ye ever comin' back agin, Jack?"
"Very sure, little girl; and it's the first time it has been right for weeks. Billy, that was very dear of you, and I love you for it; but think how near how perilously near you came to lifelong misery!" "But I thought you wanted me so much," she smiled shyly. "And I did, and I do for a daughter. You don't doubt that NOW?"
And yet she felt instinctively that his fancy for her no longer went so deep as it had once done. Well! she was glad; of course she was glad. "Oh! you're not so very much to be pitied," she said; but her hand lighted a moment kindly and shyly on the young man's arm. "Now, if you wouldn't talk about these things, Hubert do you know what I should be doing? I should be asking you to do me a service."
In the morning, when all was safely over, he came down to the kitchen to find the husband a man some two or three years older than himself, and the smart foreman of an ironmongery shop in Deansgate crouching over a bit of fire. The man was too much excited to apologise for his presence in the Grieves' room. David shyly asked him a question about his wife. 'Oh, it's all right, the doctor says.
As Candace entered, they favored her with one rapid, scrutinizing glance that took in every detail of her apparel, from the goat-skin boots which were too large for her feet to the round hat whose every bow bore witness to a country milliner, and after that they noticed her no more. She, for her part, only too glad to be left unnoticed, looked shyly out of the corners of her eyes at them.
The retriever made his way straight to her, and dropped the stick at her feet. Bobby came shyly forward, and the lady looked at him in surprise. She was dressed in deep mourning, and had a very sad face, and, though she looked young, her hair was as white as snow. 'Who are you, little boy; and what do you want? 'I'm Bobby, and that dog took away Nobbles. I've runned after him 'bout twenty miles!
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