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Harpe shoved a chair toward her with her foot. "Now what's the trouble?" she demanded half humorously. "Are you a wall-flower or is your beau dancing with another girl?" There was a rush of tears which the girl covered her face with her hands to hide. "Huh I hit it, did I?" While she wept softly, Dr. Harpe inspected her with deliberation.
In rain or in sunshine this old farmhouse had a constant resemblance to a wall-flower; and it had the same moist earthy smell, except in the kitchen, where John and Martha Thresher lived, apart from their furniture.
Next door at the back. 'O, returned Neville. 'And the mignonette and wall-flower? 'The same, said the visitor. 'Pray walk in. 'Thank you. Neville lighted his candles, and the visitor sat down.
I reckon almost any girl would want to believe even a fellow like him, if she'd been a wall-flower all her life, and somehow didn't think she ought to be." "But did you accept did you? That's the main thing," Henley asked, and his eyes were fixed on her mobile face where the pink shadows chased one another beneath her long, drooping lashes. "No, not positive," she said.
"I'd rather be a wall-flower than dance with Sam Wilkins," one of these young women had said. "He not only can't dance, but, what is infinitely worse, he doesn't know that he can't dance, and as for his conversation well, give me silence." "You are perfectly right about that," said another.
I tried to read, to write, to do anything but think. I fought, resisted; refused to face what I did not want to see, to listen to what I did not want to hear; and not until the dawn of a new day did I fall asleep. In my dream Lillie was in front of me, the bit of wall-flower in her hands, and gaspingly she cried out that something should be done.
When the gates of paradise are closed against one it matters little whether they are made of gold or of iron. Inwardly he bestowed some very hard names upon himself for imagining that that peerless creature would be allowed to await a willing wall-flower his languidly deferred appearance. Again those heavenly strains rose and throbbed upon the air. It was maddening.
"What you say may be true generally, but there are exceptions. My daughter has been too well brought up." "Yes, Margie is well-bred," retorted Mrs. Wrapp. "We'll admit she hasn't gone to extremes, as most of our girls have. But I want to observe to you that she has been a wall-flower for a year." "It certainly is a problem," sighed Mrs. Kingsley. "I feel helpless out of it.
The victory was hers, and I, her prize, passed a whole day in different conveyances, the last of which landed us miles away from London, at the gates of an old drooping, mossed and streaked farmhouse, that was like a wall-flower in colour.
He got up from his chair, and Dick saw that he did not wish to continue the discussion. There was a moment of silence, and then Lucy came in. 'I've given my partner away to a wall-flower, she said, with a faint smile. 'I felt I must have a few words alone with you. 'I will make myself scarce, said Dick. They waited till he was gone. Then Lucy turned feverishly to Alec.
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