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In fact, he not only offered to replace for the time being my former servant Bendel, but actually lent me my shadow for the journey. The temptation was great. I suddenly gave my horse the spurs and galloped off at full speed; but, alas! my shadow remained behind and I had to turn back shamefacedly. "You can't escape me," said my companion, "I hold you by your shadow."
'And you've been out with Liz? he said then, seeing that for some unexplained reason she was not so interested as usual in his pursuits. 'Where did she take you? 'To a music hall not a nice place, Walter, said Gladys almost shamefacedly. His colour, the flush of quick anger, leaped in his cheek. 'A music hall! I should just say it isn't a nice place. How dared she?
Connie Edwards patted his head. She winked at Francey, but Francey was looking at Robert's sullen back. "No, you wouldn't. Not for six months or so, anyhow." He laughed shamefacedly. "Oh, well, of course I'm rotting. I can't drive a go-cart. Never had the chance. Oh, I say, Robert, don't grouch. I didn't mean to be rude. Of course, you're right in a way.
Some came frankly to prospect our hills and gullies, others shamefacedly, when our backs were turned; for had it not been foretold that gold was certain to be found on the Island, and were not the invincible truths of geology verified by our covert ways?
"See that you are, then," she said. Then she went over to the trunk and looked in. "Percy, may I take those things out and fold them over again?" she asked. "Yes, if you want to," said Percy shamefacedly. "I suppose I have made a mess of them; but it's too hard work for you, Polly." "I should like nothing better than to attack that trunk," declared Polly merrily.
The other was Amroth, who was looking at the two with an air of irrepressible amusement. When I entered, Lucius rose, and Amroth said to me: "Here I am again, you see, and wondering whether you can regain the pleasure you once were kind enough to take in my company?" "What nonsense!" I said rather shamefacedly. "How often have I blushed in secret to think of that awful remark.
Gone, disappeared, extinguished, carried off without leaving a single gold band or the flash of a single sunbeam in the evening sky! Day after day through a cold streak of heavens as bare and poor as the inside of a rifled safe a rayless and despoiled sun would slink shamefacedly, without pomp or show, to hide in haste under the waters.
The smoke of the banked fires still wove little heat spirals above the stacks as if waiting for the man of the engines. The men were shamefacedly standing around the works and arguing, and one or two had rolled their blankets and dumped them on the bench beside the mess-house.
He even took a letter out of his pocket and read the superscription, but put it away again shamefacedly, upon her gently apologizing for monopolizing so much of his attention. "You see it is so long since I saw you," she said. "You must forgive me if I have too much to say." When lunch was over the carriage came round, and Angelica, all radiant smiles, took it for granted that Mr.
As little pleasure should the wise man take in his neighbor's honor that is, in the honor which his neighbor doeth him." This seemed rather inconsistent with his own pomp, and I only appreciated the sentiment months later. After this discourse was quite over, a member of the sect arrived. "Why so late?" he was asked. "My wife was confined," he said shamefacedly.
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