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Congress, that had no virtue, or if it had, its quality was too hard for use, was for ever standing in admiration of its beauty and whiteness, as a member or two since expelled had been pleased to call it, and was as scrupulous of having it called in question as a coy damsel.
"Oh, the sex! the sex!" said the doctor, with his excellent temper in perfect working order again. "So delightfully impulsive! so charmingly reckless of what they say or how they say it! 'Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please! There! there! there! Good-morning!"
No one can appreciate the difficulties of their feat unless he has gone into new country. In association with Captain Burton, Speke came much nearer to the "coy fountains," than at the Victoria Nyanza, but they all turned their backs on them. Mr. Baker showed courage and perseverance worthy of an Englishman in following out the hints given by Speke and Grant.
She took her seat in the carriage, bade a kind farewell to both the gentlemen now that no tender answer was possible, and was whirled away. Thus the coy virgin eluded the pair. They were engaged. "Well?" he cried, with great animation. "No," was the despondent reply. "Refused?" screeched the other; "impossible!" "No, thank you," was the haughty reply. "What then? Did you change your mind?
Lady, I and my Nephew, being your good neighbors and of the worshipfull, I of the Country, he of the Cittie, have long desird a match with your daughters, but they are coy, so childish, so unmannerly; I know not how to terme them: they dispise who worship offers them, they may hereafter doe worse and have worse, madam. Crac.
Thus the coy creatures play cup and ball, and one has lost its plaything yonder, as the branch slightly stirs, and the whole vanishes in a whirl of snow. Meanwhile a fragment of low arbor-vitae hedge, poor outpost of a neighboring plantation, is so covered and packed with solid drift, inside and out, that it seems as if no power of sunshine could ever steal in among its twigs and disentangle it.
"Faith, I would have been her father confessor long ago, but I have ever found her coy." "Opportunity was lacking, my lord," replied Ramorny; "and time presses even now." "Nay, I am but too apt for a frolic; but my father " "He is personally safe," said Ramorny, "and as much at freedom as ever he can be; while your Highness " "Must brook fetters, conjugal or literal I know it.
You ought to. Isn't Eileen Garth a bit coy at times?" "One might remark that Mrs. Lisle also was coy." "Look here " began the other furiously, but the other checked him. "Let us stop bickering like a couple of counter jumpers," he said, and a shrewder man than Robert might have been warned by the slow, incisive utterance.
Off in the hills day after day she had worn this costume in those active scenes he had not witnessed. Now she was merely coy. He followed her out on the hillside with only a little trouble from the spurs indeed he fell but once as he approached her and the little drama of the lovers, at last united, was touchingly shown.
Then, observing the clerical attire of the "client," she came forward, and extending her hand to Donald, exclaimed with a coy, insinuating smile: "I am sure that you must be Mr. Maxwell. I am so glad to see you. I hope I am not interrupting professional confidences." "Not in the least," Donald replied, as he placed a chair for her. "I am very glad to have the pleasure of meeting you, Miss Bascom."
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