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He glanced often with a rather pathetic wistfulness at me, which I read very easily and shamefacedly; and at last he broke out with information concerning a torchlight procession that would set forth from one of the parks of El Paso. Of course I knew what this remark was leading up to!
"What are you doing up there, sir?" The Texan settled himself astride a bough. "I don't really know." "Don't know! To what command do you belong?" "I don't know." "You don't know! What is your State?" "Really and truly, I don't O Lord!" The Texan scrambled down, saluted most shamefacedly. The horseman looked hard and grim enough. "Well, sir, what is the meaning of this?
"Father would simply love that fern," she cried, "and Betty would go wild over that little white basket with the ferns and hyacinths in it. O Pamela, I do so want it for her! I want them all!" Pamela had not lost her head as Kitty had. "Well, the hyacinths will have faded long before you go home, Kitty, and the brooch is easier to pack." Kitty laughed somewhat shamefacedly.
I'm as hungry as a hunter, for my part, and deserve it, too, after a good night's work. With my fol-de-rol, diddledy " He started to hum, but checked himself shamefacedly. "There I go again, and I beg your pardon! 'Tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to behave myself in a house of mourning." Mr.
"It was not money for myself I thought of, Sir," murmured St. Genis somewhat shamefacedly. "No, no, of course not," rejoined Clyffurde with a tone of sarcasm quite foreign to his usual easy-going good-nature. "You were thinking of the King's favours, and of a future of distinction and glory." "I was thinking chiefly of Crystal, Sir," said the other haughtily.
It is a universal tendency, of course, and displays itself everywhere; in religion, in morality, in fashions, in vices, in simple conversation everywhere. The glorious and free gift of Nature to every man, the capacity for perception and judgment, he shamefacedly, as if it were a disgrace, tries to shift off upon another.
If you could know how ridiculously young you looked, sitting there and talking about lined faces and yourself at eighty. Eighty is a long way off, Rose-Marie for you!" The girl joined, a trifle shamefacedly, in the older woman's laughter. "I reckon," she agreed, "that I do take myself too seriously!
"Alter our dinner hour? You've rather a nerve, haven't you, Banstead?" "I wouldn't suggest it, if we weren't pals," replied the other, grinning somewhat shamefacedly. "But the fact is I've got an appointment late this afternoon." The fatuity of vicious and coroneted youth outstripped his discretion.
"She has always been the little one, the pet," urged Dora; "she will not know what to do without some of us to take care of her and be good to her." "But she must go away some day," he continued his remonstrance. "How old is your sister?" "She was seventeen last Christmas," Dora answered shamefacedly. "Why, many a woman is married before she is May's age," he protested.
And there was something else. Enid Crofton had enjoyed the War she had admitted this just a little shamefacedly a week ago, when they two were having dinner together at the Savoy Grill, where she had been easily the prettiest woman in the room. At the time he had felt indulgently that it was a good thing that someone should have gone through that awful time untouched by the pains and scars of war.
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