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"Oh," cried Ellen, "I remember all about him; he was deposed by Edward the Fourth, whose two sons were afterwards murdered in the Tower by their wicked uncle, Richard the Third." "I remember that," said Matilda, timidly, yet with that kind of pleasure which indicated a sense of approaching her superior in knowledge, and being sensible that this was the only kind of superiority worth possessing.
"You wished me to know the reasons?" said Dorothea, timidly. "Yes," said Will, impetuously, shaking his head backward, and looking away from her with irritation in his face. "Of course I must wish it. I have been grossly insulted in your eyes and in the eyes of others. There has been a mean implication against my character.
"Yes, I suppose so," said she, a little annoyed at having betrayed any personal interest in the affair. He was silent, meditating. "There is nothing wrong in it," said she, timidly, "is there?" "I think you had better tell me fully out what is in your mind," he replied, kindly. "Something has happened which has suggested these questions.
There was a little shudder, as the same big hand that had defied the valley sought her head and pressed it to his shoulder. When Emma at last looked up the mockery she always carried in her eyes had given place to a new serenity, and her hand reached up timidly for his.
The other two sons and the various attendants of the shop were plying the profitable trade, as customer after customer, with umbrellas and in pattens, dropped into the tempting shelter when a man, meanly dressed, and who was somewhat past middle age, with a careworn, hungry face, entered timidly.
"I don't see anywhere to sit." "You'll have to stand," said Gabriele. "What do I do?" "Hold onto the railing," she scoffed. Lily grabbed it and began to dangle there like a leaf on a tree. "I guess you forgot me," she said timidly. "No, you said that you would come in the morning. I thought maybe you had decided against coming." Her expressions were hard.
"No!" she whispered, timidly; "but I like him much oh, very much! And he is so good to me!" The earl stroked his chin and mused. Isabel had destroyed the only reasonable conclusion he had been able to come to as to the motives for the hasty marriage. "If you do not love Mr.
"We have a new cloak-room now; you just ought to see it!" "Oh, I have seen it, you can be sure!" said the lady, dryly. "I've been up there sniffing around and inspecting every corner, and I'm glad to say that I quite approve of it." They both laughed heartily, but Faith was not quite satisfied. "Can you see any changes that you did not suggest. Miss Dean?" she asked, a little timidly.
"Are you wet, sir? had you not better " began the wife timidly. "No, ma'am, I'm not wet, I thank you. By the by, nephew, this new author is a friend of yours. I wonder a man of his family should condescend to turn author. He can come to no good. I hope you will drop his acquaintance authors are very unprofitable associates, I'm sure. I trust I shall see no more of Mr.
But before Nancy plucked up the courage to say anything about who was to be invited she found that Cora had already seen to that Cora and Grace Montgomery. "I'd like to have Jennie Bruce come," Nancy suggested timidly one day. "Goodness! why didn't you say so before?" snapped Cora. "Why? Won't there be room for her?" "We've made up the whole list, and the girls have been invited.
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