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For a second she stood, her head thrown back, a teasing, half-shy, half- daring look on her face, then she dropped a swift kiss on the hand that clasped hers, and without a word went flying crimson-cheeked up the lilac-bordered path. Donald Morley rode back to town through the coming storm, in that particular state of ecstasy that mortals are permitted to enjoy but once in a lifetime.
And when at length he reached Kitty's side, how beautiful was the look of slight surprise, not too strongly marked, and the half-shy pleasure in the eyes which she raised to him; and then the coy little gesture with which she swept aside her draperies and made room for him. Half the power of Kitty's witcheries lay in her frank, childish manner, just dashed with womanly reserve.
Lucy at her prayers, Lucy in her bed, had large gaps in the sequence of her thoughts. Safety lay only with Lancelot. She could centre herself in him. Lancelot it was who with forceful small fingers, and half-shy, half-sly eyes, finally closed down hers, with a "Go to sleep, you tired mamma."
I think your hair is awfully pretty now honest I do. Let's be friends." For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert's hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat.
The boy, although pretty full of what is known among the civilised as "cheek," was almost overwhelmed by this public recognition of his prowess, and was about to retire with a half-shy expression, when the audience received the proposal with a burst of applause. "Yes, yes," they cried; "he is a brave boy: let him try it."
She stopped there, with a half-shy, half-grateful look at the young man which finished the sentence better than any words. He was still a boy, in spite of his one-and-twenty years, and a little color came into his brown cheek as the eloquent eyes met his and fell before them. "Yes, Bella is a capital girl, and one can't help loving her.
As she smiled, and waved her bag at him, he stopped and waited for her, saying to himself, "Hullo! I wonder if that 's Polly?" Up came the little girl, with her hand out, and a half-shy, half-merry look in her blue eyes, as she said, inquiringly, "This is Tom, is n't it?" "Yes. How did you know?" and Tom got over the ordeal of hand-shaking without thinking of it, he was so surprised.
But we've always paid our share in keeping up the school for others that was more favored, and now it looks as if He had not forgotten us, and ez if" with a significant, half-shy glance at her husband and a corroborating nod from that gentleman "ez if, reelly, we might be reckonin' to send you a scholar ourselves." The young schoolmaster, sympathetic and sensitive, felt somewhat embarrassed.
"You are not to do anything energetic to-day," he said. She threw him a smile, half-shy, half-wistful, and departed without replying. He turned back into the room and sat down. "I am not quite satisfied about Chris," he said. "Neither am I," said Aunt Philippa, with unexpected severity. He looked at her with awakened attention. "No?" he said courteously. "No."
He was turning back for Tom, but Tom glanced up at me again from under his eyelids in the funny half-shy way he did when he was not sure of any one. I took his hand and led him forward to the fire. "Tom is quite big," I said. "He's never counted like a baby." Again Uncle Geoff looked at me with his comical smile. I felt my face get red again.
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