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'Yes, said Lawford, stolidly, 'they were all out as it happened. And, of course, he went on quickly, 'there was nothing for me to do but simply to go down and open the door. And yet, do you know, at first I simply couldn't move. I lit a candle, and then then somehow I got to know that waiting for me was just but there, he broke off half-ashamed, 'I mustn't bother you with all this morbid stuff.
But it's a beautiful place to study, and by the time I get home I'll know the lines and have all the rest of the time for the real work: trying to make myself into a faraway picture of the adorable girl you had in your mind when you wrote it. You see " She checked herself again. "Oh! Oh!" she said, half-laughing, half-ashamed. "I've never talked so much in my life!
So the little string began to grow again, and, though she was half-ashamed of the childish pleasure it gave her, it did help when she could see every night a visible token that she had tried to live that 'day through unselfishly and well, that she had kept tryst with the duty of cheerfulness which we all owe the world.
Presently he turned slowly from the window and met his wife's gaze; then he laughed, a low, half-amused, half-ashamed laugh. He could afford to do so, for be it known this was a new order of things in the minister's household.
I also want to compare our old costs with present costs " Burdon stared at her, but Mary half-ashamed of what she was doing kept her glance upon the two accountants. "Mr. Burdon will give you all the old records, all the old books you want," she said, "and will help you in every possible way " And still Burdon stared at her his whole life concentrated for a moment in his glance.
Now, if a lady sets up her carriage with the family crest and fine liveries, why, I should like to know, is the wig of the coachman omitted, and his cocked hat also? It is a kind of shabby, half-ashamed way of doing things a garbled glory. The cock-hatted, knee-breeched, paste-buckled, horse-hair-wigged coachman, one of the institutions of the aristocracy.
Music and color are two expressions of the same thing and the thing is Beauty." The mountain boy made no reply, but his eyes dwelt on the quivering shadows in the water; and Lescott asked cautiously, fearing to wake him from the dreamer to the savage: "So you are interested in skies and hills and their beauties, too, are you?" Samson's laugh was half-ashamed, half-defiant.
He was half-ashamed of this precaution, but admitted that he was getting nervous. Hitherto he had found some amusement in leaving a trail for his pursuers, but there was a difference now. For all that, he slept soundly until he was awakened by a noise at the door. It was dark and somebody was trying to get in.
But to find you was not enough; I had got to claim, and keep you. I'd got to have something to offer; I had to justify myself. Well, that's why I began to drain the marsh " Evelyn stopped him. "I wasn't worth it, Jim," she said, with half-ashamed sincerity. "But I understand; you are too proud to take, you want to give. Although you're foolish, I like your pride."
"Oh, no!" she exclaimed. "You wrong him, mother." "You haven't encouraged him, Janet!" cried Mrs. Whitney. "After what I've been writing you?" "The loss of his money hasn't made any difference about him with me," said Janet, her pure, sweet face lighting up with the expression that made her mother half-ashamed of her own worldliness. "Of course not! Of course not, Janet," said she.
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