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She took the hand of the child, who hung back with an odd mingling of shamefacedness and resentment of the interference, when the voice of Colonel Starbottle, in the same deadly calm deliberation, said, "I er will speak with her alone." The round eyes again saw the complete collapse of authority, as the two women shrank back from the voice, and said hurriedly,
In the meanwhile, the ambassadress herself entered the council chamber, exhibiting an agreeable mixture of shamefacedness and reserve, together with a bold determination to do her duty at all events. There were about fifteen of the principal crusaders assembled in council, with their chieftain Godfrey.
He said to her much the same as he had said to me before lunch, with, perhaps, a little more shamefacedness. Were it not for reiteration upon reiteration of the same things in talk, life would be a stark silence broken only by staccato announcement of facts. At last Barbara's eyes grew uncomfortably moist.
She came in upon them one morning, as they sat together in the breakfast-room, with more shamefacedness than could be easily accounted for at the first moment. And then she told them she was married. Her sudden departure had been the means of bringing Mr Stirling to a knowledge of his own mind on the matter of wedlock, and he had followed her to her sister's, and "married her out of hand."
He sent his royal greeting to you, sir, in particular, and said more than becomes me to repeat." "Nay, I will hear it every word, boy," said Sir Henry; "is not the certainty that thou hast discharged thy duty, and that King Charles owns it, enough to console me for all we have lost and suffered, and wouldst thou stint me of it from a false shamefacedness?
In that moment there came a cowardly feeling, a sense of shamefacedness, and then, hard upon it, and overwhelming it, a determination to serve Boyd Madras so far as lay in my power, and to be a man, and not a coward or an idler. When I found him he was prostrate.
They will now all, or nearly all, wear evening dress with a black cravat, but even those of them who will consent to put on a white one do so with a certain shamefacedness and sense of backsliding, and of treachery to some good cause, though they do not exactly know which.
If I yielded to the impulse that is always with me, I I'd coquette with you, disgracefully. Doesn't that even surprise you? Now you are laughing at me . . . why, you weren't listening at all!" His shamefacedness was an admission of guilt, but he shook his head in contradiction. "Not at you," he corrected her.
"John Bairdieson said John Bairdieson said It has clean gone out of my mind what John Bairdieson said," replied Ralph with much shamefacedness. The old lady looked at him approvingly. "Ye're no a Whig. There's guid bluid in ye," she said, irrelevantly. "Yes, I do remember now," broke in Ralph eagerly. "I remember what John Bairdieson said.
I went from him to Hanover Street, where I found Captain Carey, who met me with the embarrassment and shamefacedness of a young girl. I had not yet seen them since my return from Normandy. There was much to tell them, though they already knew that my expedition had failed, and that it was still doubtful whether Ellen Martineau and Olivia were the same person.
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