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The Minstrel continued his laments, reddening with the strain of the painful crowing which ended every strophe. His narrow chest heaved with the effort; two rosettes of sickly purple colored his cheeks; his slender neck dilated, the veins standing out in blue relief.
It was getting near bedtime, and she had been sitting half-asleep over the fire, and perhaps her suddenly awakened excitement lent a more than usual animation and attraction to a pair of eyes and a face that would nowhere have passed unnoticed; for Carl Beck, who was at the head of the party, seemed positively fascinated, and could not take his eyes off her, until, reddening with confusion, she instinctively stretched out her hand for her bodice, that lay beside her on the bench.
"I I am glad I met you," she said frankly. "I I think you have saved me from myself." "You asked me my name," I broke in eagerly. "Would you mind telling me who you are?" "I?" the clear cheeks reddening. "Why, I am only a fool." "Then there is, at least, one tie between us. But, if we are to remain friends I must know how to address you." Her red lips parted doubtfully, her brow wrinkling.
"Afraid!" cried the young sailor, reddening. "Is anxiety about the lives of your men and the safety of your property to be called fear? I am willing to sail in the `Nancy' as long as a plank of her will hold to her ribs, but " Bax paused and bit his lip, as if to keep back words which had better not be spoken.
The stately lady, however, advanced to him, and said, "Are not you the little Peveril?" "Yes," said the boy, reddening, not altogether without a juvenile feeling of that rule of chivalry which forbade any one to disown his name, whatever danger might be annexed to the avowal of it. "Then," said the stately stranger, "go to your mother's room, and tell her to come instantly to speak with me."
"I can't be took for seein' him, because there's no lor agin it. I was in the gravel pit in the canal meadow " "What business had you there?" said the inspector, interrupting. "I got leave to be there," said the boy insolently, but reddening. "Who gave you leave?" said the inspector, collaring him. "Ah," he added, as the captive burst into tears, "I told you you'd have to deal with me.
"You are right, madam," replied Lindsay, reddening with anger, "and you would already know the object of our mission if Lord Ruthven did not so ridiculously keep us waiting. But," added he, "have patience; the matter will not be long now, for here he is."
Stepping about in the kitchen after supper, her mother would eye the limp, relaxed figure on the back porch with a little pang at her heart. She would come to the screen door, or even out to the porch on some errand or other to empty the coffee grounds; to turn the row of half-ripe tomatoes reddening on the porch railing; to flap and hang up a damp tea towel. "Ain't you goin' out, Tess?" "No."
I guessed the station, and went there, to put myself at your disposal." "Did you," said Clara, reddening slightly, "chance to see Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson's carriage pass you when you drove up to the station?" De Craye had passed a carriage. "I did not see the lady. She was in it?" "Yes. And therefore it is better to put discretion on one side: we may be certain she saw you."
No gun, no beat to quarters or bugle-call from Fort Sackville. What could it mean? Clark's next move was an enigma, for he set the men to cutting and trimming tall sapling poles. The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard.
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