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'Oh no, sir, she said, 'I'm not at all offended, and I thank you very much, very much indeed, sir, and I would like to ask you a question, if you wouldn't think me too bold. 'Bold? cried William. 'Why, I think you are the shyest little woman I have ever seen. I'll be very pleased to answer any question you may ask me. What is it? 'You see, sir, I've got a little money of my own.
"Can't you women tell what's the matter with each other?" said Mr. Rushleigh to his daughter, who entered by the other door, as Faith went out into the hall. "What ails Faith, Margaret?" "Nothing of consequence, I think. She is tired with all that has been going on, lately. And then she's the shyest little thing!" "It's a sort of shyness that don't look so happy as it might, it seems to me.
She went away with her mamma to complete her education on the Continent. I remained 'Patience on a monument. She was always before my eyes the slenderest, shyest creature just eighteen. I never had an idea that she could grow any older, less slender, or less shy. I went to a party at which I knew she was to be-saw her, and was cured." "Bad case of small-pox, or what?" asked the Colonel, smiling.
It was that she seemed to be always thinking what she could do to please or help any one who needed either help or comfort. She was very fond, too, of animals, and she was so gentle in her way, that even the shyest of them would come quite close to her, and pick up whatever she flung down for them to eat.
''Tis what you may come to yerself, sooner or later, God have mercy upon ye; and as such no scoffing matter, said an older man. 'Faith, I'd as lief cry as laugh to see a man in that corner. 'He's a gent getting up in years too. He must hev been through it a few times afore, seemingly, to sit down and buy the tools so cool as that. 'Well, no. See what the shyest will do at such times.
Now he knew that the fox squirrel was the slyest, as well as the shyest of all his kind; no creature so expert as he in slipping out of range; there would be no chance for a second shot, for now only a rim of the sun was left. With a wildly beating heart he raised his gun, took time to aim well, fired, and down came his hundredth squirrel.
But they soon ceased to consider him an observer, and went along with that tender attention to each other which the shyest can scarcely disguise, and which these, among entire strangers as they imagined, took less trouble to disguise than they might have done at home.
He really was the shyest man I had ever met. It seemed to hurt him to be spoken to. However, he was the boss, and I had to humour him, so I didn't say any more. We went down to the country that night, just as the man had told the policeman we would. I was all worked up, for I had heard so much about the country from Fred that I had always wanted to go there.
She came daintily over the earth, soft as down before the wind, a rosy flush suffusing her plumage, a coral beak, her very feet pink the shyest, most timid little thing alive. Her bright eyes were popping with fear, and down there among the ferns, anemones and last year's dried leaves, she tilted her sleek crested head and peered at him with frightened wonder and silent helplessness.
One more matter may be referred to in connection with our recreations, namely, there was no hunting over our acres. The woods became a refuge for birds and small game. No gun was ever heard there, and the shyest creatures learned they were safe, among friends who loved them. Rabbits excepted. Under Mr.
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