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The oddness of the arrangement, and the quaint way in which Cicely made it, won Miss Waite's heart, and when she heard the girl's step in the hall that evening, she opened the door. "Come right in," she called, cordially. "I can't spare the roses until after supper, so you will have to come in and eat with me. You've no idea how much I have enjoyed them!" Cicely paused timidly on the threshold.
The girl threw Beethoven the piece of sugar, but did not venture on the name. It seemed to her a long name for such a little dog. As she timidly took the sugar from the basin by the aid of the tongs, Lancelot saw how coarse and red her hand was. It gave him the same sense of repugnance and refrigescence as the cold, damp steps. Something he was about to say froze on his lips.
Talking to them and about them naturally brought up the subject of education; and Jane timidly inquired if Mrs. Rennie was in want of a governess, or if she knew any one who was. "No; the children are all at school or under masters the best masters in Edinburgh for Mr. Rennie is extravagant in the matter of education.
Tremors, born within me that day when old gray, bristling Leggett, our Principal, opened the schoolroom door upon Lucy Tait, are as poignant, as sweetly terrible, now as in that far time when the light of her wondrous presence first fell upon me. An instant she hesitated timidly in the sombre frame of the doorway, looking far over our heads. Then old Leggett came in front of her.
"Oh, m'sieu', if you please, no," she answered half timidly, flattered by the glance of his eye a look of flattery which was part of his stock-in- trade. It had got him into trouble all his life. "Ah, madame, but I plead yes!" he answered, with a little encouraging nod towards her. "Come, let me pour it for you." He took the odd little bottle and poured her glass as full as his own.
The student clambered irresolutely in after him, and accidentally touching him with his elbow, said timidly and politely: "I beg your pardon." The pipe went out. The postmaster came out of the post-office just as he was, in his waistcoat and slippers; shrinking from the night dampness and clearing his throat, he walked beside the cart and said: "Well, God speed!
I don't like the girls much at `The Firs, but I cannot help liking Mark; I mean," she added, colouring, "as a light- hearted, generous, pleasant boy." A silence of a few moments, and then she looks up and says, timidly and lovingly, "If you think it better, dearest mamma, I won't go to the party to-night."
So when I saw you come out of the forest and stand here, and Mr. Laval told me about you, I made up my mind right away to come along and speak to you. My name's McDonald Nancy McDonald." It was all a little hasty, a little timidly spoken. The dark eyes thoughtfully regarding the wonder of red hair under the close fitting hat were disconcerting, for all there was cordiality in their depths.
"Pardon, señorita, I would be held your friend," he murmured, leaning closer, "for it is ever a misfortune to incur the enmity of Señor Lacy. You will trust me?" "But," she ventured timidly, "I do not know you, señor; who you may be." "You know Señor Mendez?" She shook her head negatively. "'Tis strange! Yet I forget you come from New York. They know him here on this border.
Presently she found herself at a corner so busy that a very big man in a belted blue coat helped the people across the street. For an absorbed minute she watched him in silence; then, a little timidly, she herself started to cross. It was a wonderful experience. The big, blue-coated man saw her at once and promptly beckoned to her. He even walked to meet her.
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