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"I am not afraid," said Madame L'Ouverture, timidly, as if scarcely venturing to say so much "I am not afraid but that, happen what may, we can always make a comfortable home for Placide." "Never mind comfort, mother: and least of all for me. We have something better than comfort to try for now."
So she entered the sitting-room timidly and stood with drooping head before her grandmother. "Where have you been all day?" repeated her grandmother. "Oh, didn't Mrs. Hunt tell you?" said Marian in a weak voice. "She said she would. I've been blackberrying." "With whom?" "Some of the girls." "Who gave you permission?" "Why why Mrs. Hunt didn't think you would mind, and and " "Blackberrying!
I speak to her, rather timidly and at random: "Carnal love isn't the whole of love." "It's love!" Marie answers. I do not reply. "Ah!" she says, "we try to juggle with words, but we can't conceal the truth." "The truth! I'm going to tell you what I have been truly, I. . . ." I could not prevent myself from saying it, from crying it in a loud and trembling voice, leaning over her.
At the sight of the poor girl, however, he assumed a stern appearance which, to tell the truth, was out of character with his style of beauty. His rich brown locks were curled and anointed in a way that might have aroused envy in the heart of an Assyrian dandy in the palmy days of Sardanapalus. "Do you buy hair?" asked Vjera, timidly offering her limp parcel.
I sacrifice to Him alone.” The two men looked at each other in amazement: one of them in anger. “It’s like the demon of Socrates,” said Aristo, timidly. “I will acknowledge Cæsar in every fitting way,” she repeated; “but I will not make him my God.” Presently she added, “Polemo, will not that invisible Monitor have something to say to all of us,—to you,—at some future day?”
To them she was but an ordinary child, a poor thing of the roads, a girl of reluctant growth, timidly humble in her ways.
"It might be, Raff," persisted Dame Brinker timidly, "that the meester knows somebody in that country, though I'm told they are mostly savages over there. If he could get the watch to the Boomphoffens with the poor lad's message, it would be a most blessed thing." "Tut, vrouw, why pester the good meester, and dying men and women wanting him everywhere? How do ye know ye have the true name?"
Rice to our sitting-room." Mrs. Lambert assented timidly, with a quick glance towards Simeon, who was garrulously declaiming to Britt concerning the wonders of another painting by the Swedish cook. Pratt, seeing the women rise, approached. "Where are you going?" he asked, with a note of impatience in his voice.
She alone approached the king, timidly kissed his hand, and then, joining her comrades, commenced the following song, to the air and very words of which the feet of the dancing-girls kept time, while with the chorus rang the silver bells of the musical instrument which each of the dancers carried.
For we had not gone far ere, timidly, a door opened and a mild-visaged man, in the simple workaday smock that the French wore, stood, hesitating, on the steps. The odd thing was that he should have bowed to Clark, who was dressed no differently from Bowman and Harrod and Duff; and the man's voice trembled piteously as he spoke.
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