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"That's that's just what I said. But I thought I thought perhaps you'd rather rather I waited." She shivered suddenly. "I don't like this place. Can you take me somewhere else?" He bent lower, put his hand under her elbow and helped her to her feet. She came up from the couch with a spring, and stood before him, half-daring and half-shy.
She was twenty-three years old, but so occupied with mental effort and physical activity had been her life, that not till now had she known one of those half-daring, half-frightened excursions of the fancy which fill the hours of any full-blooded idle girl of eighteen.
With what gracious condescension does he acknowledge the half-timid, half-daring smiles of all the little caramel-chewing Floras and Faunas who have made it a point to be on Main Street at this hour! With what careless grace does he doff his laurel wreath, which is of the latest and most modish fall block, with the bow at the back, in response to the waved greeting of Mrs.
"And you have really never danced with a man before! Tell me! How did you like it?" "It was heavenly!" said Dinah, drawing a deep breath. "Will you dance with me again?" he asked. She nodded. "Yes." "The very next dance?" She nodded again. "Yes." "And again after that?" said Sir Eustace. She threw him a glance half-shy, half-daring. "Don't you think it might be too much for you?" He laughed.
"There," he said, "goes a fool, whose lack of sense prevents his eyes from being dazzled by the torch which cannot fail to consume them. A half-bred, half-acting, half-thinking, half-daring caitiff, whose poorest thoughts and those which deserve that name must be poor indeed are not the produce of his own understanding. He expects to circumvent the fiery, haughty, and proud Nicephorus Briennius!
She pulled out a parcel of cakes and tossed them on to the ground. "Nothing!" she said. He leaned forward unexpectedly as she foraged for more, and gripped the small brown hand. "Tell me what you said!" he commanded. She flung him a look half-frightened, half-daring. "I said there was only one cup." She would have released her hand with the words, but his fingers tightened like a spring.
"You ought to have a Cupid for her to look at. She has been waiting patiently a whole year, with nothing but a bronze lizard in sight," said Mac with the half-shy, half-daring look which was so new and puzzling. "Cupid fled away as soon as she woke him, you know, and she had a bad time of it. She must wait longer till she can find and keep him." "Do you know she looks like you?
Her surprising black brows and lashes, with the innocence of her blue eyes, and the half-wistful, half-daring expression she had, made her seem a combination of sophistication and childishness such as John had never seen before. "Shall I do you credit?" she asked him softly over her shoulder, as he held her wrap for her. Her heart beat hard as she said it.
The sight of the familiar crooked smile, and the half-daring, half-bashful eyes, stirred her heart with keen longing; she needed friendship, sympathy, understanding so desperately! She clung eagerly to his hands. He sat down beside her, and rumpled his hair in furious embarrassment and excitement, studying her with a wistful and puzzled smile.
Blondin watched the performance lazily from a basket chair on the porch, but when Nina called him a half-laughing, half-daring, "We're ready, Mr. Blondin!" he sauntered down to the car with his pleasantest expression, but with the regretful statement that he was not going: a vicious headache had developed since luncheon.
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