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Her thick fair hair fell on both sides of her head, braided, but not fastened up into a knot. 'Ah, I beg your pardon! she said with a smile half-embarrassed, half-ironical, instantly taking hold of one end of a plait of her hair and fastening on Sanin her large, grey, clear eyes. 'I did not think you had come yet.
'But do tell me, Mr. Le Breton, asked Edie, with one of her pretty smiles, 'what will this socialist republic of yours be like when it actually comes about? I'm dying to know all about it. 'Really, Miss Oswald, Ernest answered, in a half-embarrassed tone, 'I don't quite know how to reply to such a very wide and indefinite question.
But our line is unique in this regard. We are conditioned by a pride, as great as the shame I have spoken of. On account of it, no one of us may enter marriage without public ceremony of as much circumstance as is expedient." The storm-lights had gone down and a half-deprecatory, half-embarrassed expression, made the face look so quite like any other man's, that Skag smiled.
He sat balancing his long person over the arm of a chair listening to the recital of some of the High Churchman's parish troubles with a slight half-embarrassed smile. The vicar of Nottingham was always in trouble.
Really," he added, with a kind of half-embarrassed guilt, "it's rather a feather in my cap. I discovered the only existing case of perdinavititis." "But this won't do, doctor," said Turnbull, almost tearing his hair, "this really won't do. The man really did lose a ship. Indeed, not to put too fine a point on it, I took his ship." Dr.
Until the valuation was agreed upon there was nothing for them to do, and it was some time before the men returned from the pens. They were plain farmers with rather hard, brown faces, and stood about the fire in half-embarrassed silence while Hayes sat down at the table and opened his pocket-book. "We have made up the tally," he began, and Railton interrupted.
She guessed her beloved pupil's heart's secret, but she was too tactful to dwell upon the subject, and before the brief, half-embarrassed pause between them had ended, a servant entered, asking, "Will the Signora Contessa receive the Capitano Ruspardi?" Sylvie rose from her seat with a look of surprise. "Ruspardi? I do not know the name."
"Oh, for goodness sake, meet me half-way," cried Lady Henry, "or I shall never hold out!" Sir Wilfrid, whose half-embarrassed gaze was bent on the ground, looked up and was certain that he saw a gleam of moisture in those wrinkled eyes. "Why have you held out so long? What does it matter to me whether Miss Julie be a duchess or no?
"You don't hold me right, Mamma," said Carry at last, after one or two uneasy shiftings of position. "How should I hold you?" asked Mrs. Tretherick with a half-amused, half-embarrassed laugh. "Dis way," said Carry, curling up into position, with one arm around Mrs. Tretherick's neck and her cheek resting on her bosom "dis way dere."
The boy, with arms convulsively clasping his body, was imprinting kisses on Bob's waistcoat in default of reaching his face. At last Falloner managed gently but firmly to free himself, and turned a half-appealing, half-embarrassed look upon the young lady, whose own face, however, suddenly flushed pink.
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