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Sir, I ask for it now." "John, you ask much." "Very much, sir. It must come from your generosity, as a gift; from your justice, as a reward. I can never earn it." "Ay! Listen to the Highland tongue!" said Mr. Home. "Look up, Polly! Answer this 'braw wooer; send him away!" She looked up. She shyly glanced at her eager, handsome suitor. She gazed tenderly on her furrowed sire.
"An' now, Miss Collie," he went on, "I reckon you'll want to wait on our invalid. He's got to be fed." "I surely will," replied Columbine, gladly, and she sat down on the edge of the bed. "Ben, you fetch that box and put his dinner on it." While Wade complied, Columbine, shyly aware of her nearness to the cowboy, sought to keep up conversation.
"What's your mother's name?" questioned Nan, shyly, of the newcomer as the three walked on together. "Hunt. I'm Dick Hunt," was the brief reply. Then Dick turned away from the girl and talked to Tode. It was not very far to Dick's home. It was in one of the better class of tenement houses. The Hunts had three rooms and they were clean and comfortably furnished.
I grasped the hand of the friendly child, but the lovely fawn shyly disappeared.... From the Rhine to the Danish Belt, beautiful and lovely maidens are found in palaces and tents; yet nobody pleases me." The last day at home was Sophie's birthday. In the afternoon the whole family was invited to the Kammerjunker's, where Jakoba and the Mamsell were to be quite brilliant in their cookery.
She wanted to be good to him, and said almost shyly: "Are you angry with me, Claud?" Harbinger looked up. "What makes you so cruel?" "I am not cruel." "You are. Where is your heart?" "Here!" said Barbara, touching her breast. "Ah!" muttered Harbinger; "I'm not joking." She said gently: "Is it as bad as that, my dear?" But the softness of her voice seemed to fan the smouldering fires in him.
"So far as that goes, I am in your debt for always. But the money part I must and will, somehow, return." "Being the most important part?" he suggested, halting in front of her. "I didn't mean to imply that," she answered. "I think you know which I put first. But I can only do what I can, and money is repayable." "So is kindness," said Mercer. Again shyly she glanced at him.
Mrs. Colwood followed, shyly making acquaintance with the Roughsedges, and the elder Miss Bertram. That lady was tall, fair, and faded; she had a sharp, handsome nose, and a high forehead; and her eyes, which hardly ever met those of the person with whom she talked, gave the impression of a soul preoccupied, with few or none of the ordinary human curiosities. Mrs.
There was a longer silence this time, and then it was Sue who put her arm through Blue Bonnet's shyly. "I know what it means," she said. "I have lost my mother, too. I still have my father, though, thank Heaven, and Billy. You must know Billy he's my brother at Harvard the best ever why " Annabel lifted her hands in protest.
We have our own wheat ground for flour,—but then there’s that much less to sell.” Nina and Jan, and a little girl named Lucie, kept shyly pointing out to me the shelves of glass jars.
Later much later, when the warming sun had absorbed the fleecy screen which had served its earlier pastime, and the spring breeze had hastily sought new fields upon which to devote its melting efforts, Jessie found courage to urge the single regret these moments had left her. "And you still need to quit to-morrow?" she asked shyly. "More surely than ever." "Why?" A smile lit the man's eyes.
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