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"Your men strike; you prepare for them a beautiful club-house and athletic grounds as a reward for their loyalty. You pay them wages so that they may be able to sustain the strike indefinitely." Again he threw back his head and continued laughing as Jack had never in his life heard him laugh. "Why not, Dad?" said Jack, gazing at his father in half-shamed perplexity.
They had hung it out of their windows on Empire Day or on Dominion Day as a patriotic symbol, but few of them would have confessed, except in a half-shamed, apologetic way, to any thrill at the flapping of that bit of bunting. They had shrunk from a display of patriotic emotion. They were not like their American cousins, who were ever ready to rave over Old Glory.
She had had perfectly, at those whimsical moments on the Brünig, the half-shamed sense of turning her back on such opportunities for real improvement as had figured to her, from of old, in connection with the continental tour, under the general head of "pictures and things"; and now she knew for what she had done so.
'Oh, divil a thing! said the younger, with a half-shamed laugh. 'I don't trust women with too much; but if I had Grady's, I'd soon be a richer man than they think me. Old Grady cut up for a lot of money, and he was too old for business. It's a beautiful chance for a young man. 'Well, Patrick, said the other at last, with a sigh, 'your share won't buy Grady's, but yours and mine together will.
Instead of keeping wide awake, as I should by all the codes of romance and common sense, I poor fool at once swooned, with a vague, glimmering consciousness that I was dying and this, perhaps, was the first blissful glimpse into paradise. When I came to my senses, Mr. Sutherland was again standing by the bedside with a half-shamed look of compassion under his shaggy brows.
Scott turned and regarded him in open amazement. The steel-blue eyes met his with an odd, half-shamed expression. "You mustn't bully me, you know, Stumpy!" he said. "Remember, I can't hit back." Scott stood still. He had never in his life been more astounded.
In the man's was a half-shamed pride, as if he exulted in the strength with which he had been able to maintain his will against her supreme effort to overthrow it. "You can't go," Garson said sharply. "You might be caught." "And if I were," Mary demanded in a flash of indignation, "do you think I'd tell?" There came an abrupt change in the hard face of the man.
"She is accusing herself to save my son," thought Elvira Gordon, and her heart seemed to leap after the girl with half-shamed gratitude, in spite of her astonishment and terror, as she watched her go out of the yard and across the road to Lot Gordon's house. Mrs.
She knew that she had only to raise her own voice, and he would be with her, Greatheart of the golden armour, strong and fearless in her defence. Sir Eustace heard that quiet voice also, as one hears the warning of conscience. He slackened his hold upon her, with a quivering, half-shamed laugh. "Only another fortnight," he said, "and I shall have you to myself all day and all night too."
Gwynne," said Duckworth in a half-shamed manner, "and that is one reason why I came to see you again." "I?" exclaimed Mrs. Gwynne. "Well, you quoted Scripture against us, and you know you can't stand up against Scripture and hope to win, can you?" said Duckworth with a laugh. "Sit down here beside me, Mr. Duckworth," she said, her eyes shining.
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