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In proportion as prejudice has diminished, they have gradually advanced; nor can I believe that there is any other great impediment in the way to a higher state of improvement. That prejudice against color is not destroyed, we very well know. Its effects may be seen in our down-cast, discouraged, and groveling countrymen, if no where else.
He might talk himself, then! Verty did not embrace this tacit permission he remained silent; and gazing on Redbud, whose color began slowly to rise, as with heaving bosom and down-cast eyes she felt the young man's look he experienced more and more embarrassment a sentiment which began to give way to distress. At last he rose, and going to her side, took her hand.
And he rideth thoughtful and down-cast through the forest, and seeth a knight coming along the way he came. And in strange fashion came he.
Nevertheless, is it not true that in all countries, in our own little city, there are men, who drive the starving beggar from their doors, and who yet head a public charity list handsomely. There are people, who, under their parson's eye, wear down-cast look and thump their breasts, but, who behind his back, would much sooner thump any one else's breast, or cast down any other person's eyes.
Debby's eyes were dancing with merriment; but they were demurely down-cast, and her voice was perfectly serious. The milk of human kindness had been slightly curdled for Mr. Joe by sundry college-tribulations; and having been "suspended," he very naturally vibrated between the inborn jollity of his temperament and the bitterness occasioned by his wrongs.
Incredible! There must be some mistake." "There is no mistake," his host assured him. "This is the girl we were talking about, this is Brinnaria." The visitor regarded her, respectfully standing now, her brown eyes down-cast, the flush faded from her olive-skinned cheeks, her arms hanging limply at her sides.
"'There is a sparkle even in the darkest water. That was a saying of his," said Alick, looking anxiously at her pale cheek and down-cast eye. "Not when they are turbid." "They will clear," he said, and smiled with a look of encouraging hope that again cheered her in spite of herself.
She dresses a little too much like a Girl, affects a childish Fondness in the Tone of her Voice, sometimes a pretty Sullenness in the leaning of her Head, and now and then a Down-cast of her Eyes on her Fan: Neither her Imagination nor her Health would ever give her to know that she is turned of Twenty; but that in the midst of these pretty Softnesses, and Airs of Delicacy and Attraction, she has a tall Daughter within a Fortnight of Fifteen, who impertinently comes into the Room, and towers so much towards Woman, that her Mother is always checked by her Presence, and every Charm of Honoria droops at the Entrance of Flavia.
In a few seconds she continued, pushing the gems away, almost passionately "But I cannot wear them, papa. They are worthless to me." She was right. She had no need of such gems. Was not her hair golden and her skin alabaster? Were not her lips coral and her teeth pearls? And were not diamonds of the purest water dropping at that moment from her down-cast eyes?
The German small boy, who has accidentally sat down on such without noticing, rises with a start when his error is pointed out to him, and goes away with down-cast head, brushing to the roots of his hair with shame and regret. Not that the German child is neglected by a paternal Government. There he can play to his heart's content at making mud pies and building sand castles.
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