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'I only came for a minute, to bring back those books, Mr Ross, she said shyly. 'I can't stop. 'Oh, thank you so much, said Aylmer. 'Won't you have tea? 'No, nothing. I must go at once. I only brought you in the books myself to show you they were safe. She gave a slightly coquettish glance at Aylmer, a half-observant glance at Bruce, sighed heavily and went away.
We do not choose these reasons; they are rewards that have to be earned. Those we have chosen are only slaves we have happened to buy; and their life is but feeble; they hold themselves shyly aloof, ever watching for a chance to escape. But the reasons we have deserved stand faithfully by us; they are so many pensive Antigones, on whose help we may ever rely.
"When a soldier is not in a position to salute in the ordinary way " "I say," inquired Bobby Little rather shyly, "do you ever look the other way when you meet a Tommy?" "How do you mean?" asked everybody. "Well, the other day I met one walking out with his girl along the road, and I felt so blooming de trop that " Here the "fall-in" sounded, and this delicate problem was left unsolved. But Mr.
Her thoughts flew back to the one spot of earth where she was always wanted and ever welcomed, and she heaved a little sigh. "What is the matter, my fair coz?" asked Gerald, who was standing near and heard the sigh. "Are the Fates very unpropitious?" "No, Cousin Gerald," she answered shyly.
Drake, after hovering shyly, at last found courage to reproach her for deserting him and marrying a sailor. "Teach you not to shilly-shally," said she. "Beauty won't go a-begging. Mind you look sharper next time." This dialogue, being held in the kitchen, gave the women some amusement at the young farmer's expense. One day Mr.
Of jealousy she felt very little her chief thought coming like a wave over her: "Here is a man that can love!" She was a woman of chaste blood, which spoke to her as shyly as a girl's, now that it was in tumult: so indeed that, pressing her heart, she thought youth to have come back, and feasted on the exultation we have when, at an odd hour, we fancy we have cheated time.
Light-hearted Mercy, meantime, was walking on with her own swift, elastic tread, and thinking warmly and shyly of the look with which Stephen had bade her good-by the day before. She was walking, as was her habit, with her eyes cast down, and did not observe that any one approached her, until she suddenly heard Stephen's voice saying, "Good-morning, Mrs. Philbrick."
"It seems to me," she said, "that it is fortunate I have an engagement. At eight o'clock then, Virginia." Guy lifted his hat, and Virginia murmured something. "It is my cousin Stella," she said. "What is it that you want to say to me, Guy?" she added, half shyly, as soon as they were alone. "Come and get in my automobile," he said. "We will sit behind and let the man drive. Then we can talk.
With a last effort he strove to eject Kitty from his thoughts, for there was the wife he had won in the race of life, and he must stand by her, play the game, ride honestly, even in exile from her, run straight, even with that unopened, bitter, upbraiding letter in the He fell asleep, and soon and slowly and ever so dimly the opal light of the prairie dawn crept shyly over the landscape.
Moonbeam and starbeam came through the casements shyly and fairylike as on that night when the murderess was young and crimeless, in deed, if not in thought, that night when, in the book of Leechcraft, she meted out the hours in which the life of her benefactor might still interpose between her passion and its end.
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