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Dartlingly like a bird the Child swooped down and planted one large round kiss on the Senior Surgeon's astonished boot. "Beautiful Father!" she cried, "I kiss your feet!" Abruptly the Senior Surgeon plunged from the step and started down the walk. His cheek-bones were quite crimson. Two or three rods behind him the White Linen Nurse followed falteringly.
All these officers are still in existence. On a little stand, near the woolsack, was a sword, with a gold hilt and sheath, and belt of crimson velvet. Behind the Clerk of the Crown was an officer holding in his hands the coronation robe. Behind the Clerk of the Parliaments another officer held a second robe, which was that of a peer.
I will go with you tomorrow to Ventnor, if the day be a good one." There was something Ellen longed to say, but it was impossible to get it out she could not utter a word. She had pressed her hands upon her face to try to keep herself quiet; but Mr. Humphreys could see the deep crimson flushing to the very roots of her hair.
The Virginians have no cause to blush for their conduct at Fort Necessity. The Coldstreams could have done no better." Allen laughed again. "Ah, pardon me, Stewart," he said contemptuously, "I forgot that you were present on that glorious day." I felt my cheeks crimson, and I looked up and down the board, but saw only sneering faces.
Eval; and as they still had a lingering hope he would return, they did not choose her to receive attentions from any one else. I saw her eyes flash and her cheek crimson with indignation against all who had thus injured her; and she declared with more vehemence than I expected, that neither father nor mother, nor Percy, should prevent her choosing a husband for herself.
She was not there the bed was untouched, and gleamed upon him through the crimson light that filled the room, like a crusted snowbank. There was none of that luxurious confusion which usually marks the apartment of a sleeping lady. The rich toilet service was in complete order.
I do remember now that my father did not permit such a salutation from his brother officers, and I will not do so again, Monsieur Buzz Clendenning," I said as my cheeks became crimson with mortification and tears would have come over my eyes had my pride permitted. "This is what he meant you to do, Buzz, you duffer.
The sun had already set. Where it had gone down, a streak of pale gold and of lemon colour stretched across the distant horizon; on the opposite quarter of the sky was a stretch of dove-colour below and crimson lilac above. Light clouds seemed melting away overhead. There was every promise of prolonged fine weather. Suddenly Pigasov burst out laughing.
Finally he tied a large crimson scarf in a loose knot round his throat, shoved a soft felt hat on his head, and donning a greasy and very old brown velvet cloak, he prepared to go out. "It's a rare nuisance," he said; "I meant to try some Chinese cooking for dinner; something with a subtle aroma, delicate, and hard to obtain.
Some of them were gorgeously coloured with the rays of the departing sun, and were shaded from the most delicate rose to the darkest, richest crimson.
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