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"Never mind about me though it's kind of you!" she added in that suddenly soft, half-shy tone that I have before attempted to describe. "Y' see," she continued, "nobody ever troubled themselves about me all my life, except Jerry or them as I keeps my little knife for. And you ain't that sort, so we'll go on together until I feels like leaving you, an' then I'll go " "Go where, Diana?"
Madeleine acknowledged her kinsman's greeting with a dainty curtsey and little half-shy smile, marked by that air of distinction and breeding which was her peculiar characteristic. Molly, however, who thought she had reasonable cause for feeling generally exasperated, and who did not see in Mr.
In the background, some six or eight singing women and girls presented a half-bold, half-shy appearance, as knowing that they were there on sufferance only, and that the Rector had been doing his best to prevent their going out at nights to sing with the village choir.
You are rich now; and I am able to save considerable sums for you yearly." "It's it's awfully good of you to take so much trouble for me, mother," he interrupted, stroking her bare arm again delicately. To Katherine his half-shy endearments were the most delicious thing in life so delicious that at moments she could hardly endure them. They made her heart too full.
Why had he never gone in search of her? He got to his feet involuntarily and stepped towards the door, looking down into the valley. As his eyes rested on the little city his face grew dark, but his eyes were troubled and presently grew bewildered, for out of a green covert near there stepped a pretty boy, who came to him with frank, unabashed face and a half-shy smile.
Joe and Jake came forward with a half-shy delight, to welcome "Cousin Martha," as she was called in the Fairthorn household, her mother and Sally's father having been "own" cousins. There was a cheerful fire on the hearth, and the three ladies gathered in front of it, with the work-stand in the middle, while the boys took possession of the corner-nooks.
Rosamond felt a little surprised at finding herself expected, but no doubt, she thought to herself, the boys had told the old woman that they would bring her. 'Thank you, she said, in her pretty, half-shy way. 'I wanted to come very much. I think it must be so nice to live on the moor as you do. 'Nance has always lived on a moor, said Archie, 'ever since she was quite a little girl.
Helen laughed and blushed happily when, as by an after thought, Geoffrey added, "It is really very kind of you." "You must not talk," she admonished with a half-shy assumption of authority, strangely at variance with her former demeanor. "I shall call in my aunt with the elixir if you do."
Floyd has half a mind to break in upon the scholar's sanctity, but remembering that he is now a part and parcel of civilization, refrains and resumes his journey; and now it is of Cecil he thinks. The perplexities of the morning have quite excluded baby naughtiness. Will she be glad to see him, first in her half-shy, wholly seductive manner, then with her ardent, entire love?
He shook himself, turning round to me as though he were suddenly ashamed of himself, with a laugh half-shy, half-retrospective. "We all have our dreams," he continued. "But this came too often again and again. The question of death became my constant preoccupation as I grew to think I would never see it, nor hear men speak of it, nor "
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