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How long have you been going around with that hole there?" "I don't know in fact, I had not observed it," he answered, like a shame-faced boy. "And your coat is so short, too. Take them off at once and I'll put a patch there before I do another thing." "I'll have to go to bed, my dear. Can't you patch 'em with 'em on me?" "Of course not! I'd certainly sew them fast to your person.
And he was as jocund a bridegroom as ever put a ring upon a lady's finger. All that gloom of his, which had seemed to be his nature till after she had accepted him, had vanished altogether. And he carried himself with no sheepish, shame-faced demeanour as though half ashamed of the thing which he had done. He seemed as proud to be a bridegroom as ever girl was to become a bride.
But when the narrative came to its conclusion she inquired quietly, "What did he say erbout me?" "Oh, hit wasn't so much what he said es ther way he said hit," was Joe's somewhat shame-faced reply. "Ef hit hed been erbout any other gal, I reckon I mout of looked over it." "What was it?" The demand was insistent.
"Girls! Girls! Come quick and see our ghost before it wakes up!" The startling summons brought the sleepers to their feet in a twinkling and when Peggy introduced the explanation of the night's mystery, there was a good deal of shame-faced laughter.
When later he came back, shame-faced, I asked him: "King, what desperate alarm could draw you at the busiest hour of the day to the women's apartments, so as to desert your dignity and duty ambassadors come from friendly courts, the aggrieved who ask for justice, your ministers waiting to discuss matters of grave import? and even lead you to slight a Brahmin's blessing?"
The damsel, ycleped Louisa, made rather a shame-faced obeisance, and her old grandmother went on to inform me that she had only lately been forgiven by the overseer for an attempt to run away from the plantation. 's plantation derives from the fact that his 'nigger don't neber run away.
Dave Regan burst his concertina, and they're in a fix." "But I can't leave the missus." "That's all right. We've got the school missus's mare and side-saddle. She says you ought to be jolly well ashamed of yourself, Johnny Mears, for not bringing your wife on New Year's Night. And so you ought!" Johnny did not look shame-faced, for reasons unknown to them.
He frowned a bit, then followed it with a rather shame-faced grin, as he wiped the perspiration from his forehead with the back of his hand. "Just amusing myself a little," he answered. "Queer sort of amusement. Might satisfy a kid who couldn't find anything else to do.
Gullick arose, with bustling courtesy, to welcome her landlord, the Fellow of St. Gatien's. Immediately there was a stir among the men seated in the ingle. One by one some with a muttered pretence at excuse, others with shame-faced awkwardness they shouldered and shuffled out of the room. Maitland's appearance had produced its usual effect, and he was left alone with his tenant. "Well, Mrs.
The little hunchback did not know what had happened to her; confused and almost paralyzed by conflicting feelings she stood shame-faced, gazing at the ground.
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