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Seen in the gorgeous setting of that coach with its escutcheoned panels, its portly coachman and its white-stockinged footman who swung instantly to earth as the vehicle stopped its dainty occupant seemed to Climene a princess out of a fairy-tale. And this princess leaned forward, with eyes aglow and cheeks aflush, stretching out a choicely gloved hand to Scaramouche.
She danced well, too, he discovered, and with such evident enjoyment of her own smooth, swaying movements as was quite magnetic, and made him half reluctant to release her when their first waltz was ended, and she stopped all aflush with new bloom. "I am so fond of dancing," she said, catching her breath in a little sigh of ecstasy. "We all are.
"Padre," said Te filo tremblingly, "I will tell you, but do not be angry. It was Magdalena. I saw her once, at first, and she was like that, yes, exactly like that, with her hands up, so. She was like one of the angels in your new missal, and I remembered, and drew it many times over, and do you really think it will do for the church, Padre?" he finished eagerly, his face aflush with excitement.
Billy Edwards came on deck with a line of irritation right-angling the furrows between his eyes. "Go ahead," the quarter-deck bade him, seeing him aflush with information. "The captain won't believe me," blurted out Edwards. "Is it as bad as that?" asked Barnett, smiling. "It certainly is," replied the younger man seriously. "I don't know that I blame him.
He made a point, no matter how brisk trade was, of not keeping open after dark. His evenings were his own. He sat and puffed, tranquilly. It was a fine night. The first showy splendour of sunset had passed; but the upper sky was still aflush with colour. And in the centre of this frail cloud, which faded as he watched it, swam a single star.
All aflush with offence, Lubov tossed her head nervously, and flinging her work aside, cast a glance at her father; and, taking up the socks again, she bent her head still lower over them. The old man paced the room to and fro, plucking at his fiery beard with anxiety; his eyes stared somewhere into the distance, and it was evident that he was all absorbed in some great complicated thought.
Their backs were all toward me, and I was just bubbling with joy to think what a surprise I was about to give them, for I drew my sword and had a yell of defiance on my lips, when a cry that nobody paid the least attention to turned my mind in another direction entirely. One of the first-floor windows was open, and over the sill leaned Lady Mary herself, her face aflush with anger. "Father!
"And what may your business with his lordship be?" "His lordship's business, I think," answered Mr. Caryll in a tone of such exquisite politeness and deference that the words seemed purged of all their rudeness. "Will you answer me so, sir?" she demanded, nevertheless, her voice quivering. "My love!" interpolated his lordship hurriedly, his florid face aflush. "We are vastly indebted to Mr.
The one is Michael, who is the commander of all those who come out to destroy sin. The other is Gabriel, who is announced as commander of all those who come forth to help the righteous. Who is that mighty angel near the throne? That is the resurrection angel, his lips still aquiver and his cheek aflush with the blast that shattered the cemeteries and woke the dead.
At once all that company was on its feet. "Harry Feversham!" The name was shouted with so hearty a good-will that the glasses on the table rang. "Harry Feversham, Harry Feversham," the cry was repeated and repeated, while old General Feversham sat in his chair with a face aflush with pride. And a boy a minute afterward in a room high up in the house heard the muffled words of a chorus
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