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As she stood there, smiling at her happy image, she heard her father's voice in the room beyond, and instantly began to tear off her dress, strip the long gloves from her arms and unpin the rose in her hair. Tossing the fallen finery aside, she slipped on a dressing-gown and opened the door into the drawing-room. Mr.
When the knock came they thought it was a runaway, but Harriet opened the door all the same, and presently returned, smiling archly, and holding aloft a beautiful bouquet. "What's that?" said Mrs. Caldwell. "Give it to me." Beth's heart stood still. There was a card attached to the flowers, and Mrs. Caldwell read aloud, "Miss Caldwell, with respectful compliments."
"And I'm sure the girls must be bewildered." "Mamma, I've done biology!" "And many people think they've done theology!" chuckled Naylor. "Done it completely!" "I've raised a pretty argument!" said Beaumaroy, smiling. "I'm sorry! I only meant to answer your question about the effect the whole thing has had on myself." "Even your answer to that was pretty startling, Mr.
"And you must forgive me, Cynthia," I said, "as well. For I did not know till this moment that I loved you, but I know it now; and I shall love you to the end." As I said these words I turned, and saw Amroth smiling from afar; then with a wave of the hand to us, he turned and passed out of our sight.
"The young ladies have not quite done nothing," said Dr. May, smiling. "These are only little stray things, and Cherry has done the chief of them," said Ethel. "Oh, it is grievously bad still," she added, sighing. "Such want of truth, such ungoverned tongues and tempers, such godlessness altogether!
Staines, smiling languidly at her talk, and occasionally drawling out a little plain good sense, when in came Miss Lucas, with her tongue well hung, as usual, and dashed into twenty topics in ten minutes. This young lady in her discourse was like those little oily beetles you see in small ponds, whose whole life is spent in tacking confound them for it! generally at right angles.
Gillespie, smiling; "but I am glad you add the grace of modesty to that of generosity; it is the more uncommon of the two." "I am not modest! I am not generous! you mustn't say so," cried Ellen.
"You are the beauty of the world," he answered smiling, and he kissed her hand a matter about which she could make no great ado, for it was not the first time that he had kissed it. But the embassy from the Grand Duke was to come in a week, and to be received with great pomp. The ambassador was already on the way, carrying proposals and gifts.
You're the school-master from Walford, I think, sir? Indeed, I'm sure of it, for I've seen you on your wheel." Smiling at the idea that through the instrumentality of my bicycle I had been making myself known to the people of the surrounding country, I followed the man into a small bed-chamber on the ground-floor.
"What ho!" cried the jolly man, as he stopped at the toy counter. "I want to buy something!" he added. "I'm a sailor, just back from a long sea voyage, and I have plenty of money! I want to buy a toy!" "What kind of toy?" asked the girl behind the counter. "We have many kinds here," and she smiled at the sailor. He was so jolly no one could help smiling at him.
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