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In the midst of the trial a woman whom I had known for years came to talk to me about her daughter, shamefacedly confessing that the girl was trying to dress and look like the notorious girl in New York, and that she had even said to her mother in a moment of defiance, "Some day I shall be taken into court and then I shall dress just as Evelyn did and face my accusers as she did in innocence and beauty."
Anyhow, I'm the only real American in the class." Lydia looked up at the brown face eagerly, questioningly. Mr. James nodded. "Quite right, Jackson." Young Hansen spoke up. "We're all Americans. What's he giving us?" "Has your father been naturalized, Hansen?" asked the teacher. The Norwegian boy shook his head, shamefacedly. "And were you born in this country?"
The soldiers set to work, and soon had two fine bonfires blazing, and the Sheriff withdrew up the road with his sergeant to consult Sir John, the pair of them a trifle shamefacedly. Sir James tried to ease his own smart by an innuendo or two on the lawlessness of the West and the responsibility of its Justices of the Peace. Sir John took his sneers very quietly.
As Lew had said, a few of the Fore and Aft were coming back sullenly and shamefacedly under the stimulus of blows and abuse; their red coats shone at the head of the valley, and behind them were wavering bayonets.
He offered a prize of fifteen cents to the one who should first eat the contents of his dish, not using his hands, and hold up the saucer empty in token of his victory. The cake was tempting, and the fifteen cents irresistible, and a couple of boys in ragged shirts and short trousers and a suspender apiece came up shamefacedly to enter for the prize.
But what did you want to see her in such a hurry for?" "Oh, nothin' particular; I sort of thought maybe you wouldn't mind having a little milk with your tea on a gloomy morning like this," he said shamefacedly. "That was awfully good of you; thank you very much," she said with real gratitude, as she thought of him tramping those two miles in the blinding storm.
"Yesterday was quite fine until after you had all gone home from school, then heavy rain fell." Poor Kitty. Here was Nemesis indeed! Two days ago that skirt had been put aside to be brushed, and now, to-day, without giving a thought to the mud on it, she had put it on and worn it. With crimsoning cheeks she wheeled around. "That mud has been there for days, Miss Richards," she said shamefacedly.
"I have been thinking, monsieur," he said rather shamefacedly, "and I am beginning to doubt the wisdom of my advice. If Cordel's ruffians are close at hand, my going away will make their work easier. Now that it comes to the point I do not like leaving you, and that is the truth." "That's a poor compliment, Jacques!" I laughed; "evidently you don't think I can take care of myself."
"I'm sorry," he said. He stopped. Then, on a sudden impulse, he said in an even softer whisper, uneasily, rather shamefacedly: "You know, Rainette, I believe in God just as you do." "Really?" "Really." He said it only out of generosity. But, as soon as he had said it, he began to believe it. They stayed still and did not speak. They could not see each other.
When they came to the tall poplars which marked the entrance to the park, Silvey looked down and viewed the fruit of their morning's labors with disgust. "He's awful small," he said shamefacedly. "Throw him into the bushes." John raised the diminutive perch into the air and regarded it glumly. "Cat'll eat him, I guess." "Have to sneak home the back way, then," said Silvey.
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