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'Ah, Mr Inspector, the good lady is one of those rare spirits who "do good by stealth and blush to find it fame." 'Seems a kind of silly to go on like that, sir! 'We are not all rare spirits, Tinkler. 'I don't know what the world would be if we were, Mr Cargrim, sir.
Yet it is just such unpleasant processes as these which are the salvation of an army; these petty mortifications are the fulcrum by which you can lift your whole regiment to a first-class rank, if you have only the sense to use them. So long as no inspecting officer needs twice to remind you of the same thing, you have no need to blush.
Having come to breakfast, then, in the public room, I sit down, and see that the nine people opposite have all got New York Heralds in their hands. One dear little lady, whom I knew, and who sat opposite, gave a pretty blush, and popped her paper under the tablecloth. I told her I had had my whipping already in my own private room, and begged her to continue her reading.
Peter did not shrink from the stern tone, nor blush at the imputation. "I want you not to take away my chance," he said. He did not leave for some fifteen minutes longer, and when he did leave, it was with eyes lit almost to rapture, a glow of happiness on his pale face, and words of thanks bubbling forth from trembling lips.
Fairchild, and turning to her father: "May I," she said, "ask the Misses Fairchild to come to my feast upon my birthday?" "You may, my love," was the answer. "Then I will write a note," she said; and Mr. Fairchild saw that the pretty waxen doll could sparkle and blush, and look as happy as his own children often did.
It is in America that I have over and over again heard language to which the calling a spade a spade would seem the most delicate allusiveness; but it is also in America that I have summoned a blush to the cheek of conscious sixty-six by an incautious though innocent reference to the temperature of my morning tub.
It is one of the most foolish propositions, from the proposer's point of view, that I have ever had to make: I should blush to make it, if it were any use blushing, but no one sees blushes on my cheeks now. Do not decide in a hurry sleep on it. I always sleep on a question." He closed his eyes, and seemed about to compose himself to slumber then and there.
But when Helen rose, Laura said, with a blush and rather an alarmed voice, that she was also very tired and wanted to go to bed: so that the widow was disappointed in her scheme for that night at least, and Mr. Pen was left another day in suspense regarding his fate. His dignity was offended at being thus obliged to remain in the ante-chamber when he wanted an audience.
But when the horn sounded yet a third time, and the blast was one of so dreadful a vehemence, everybody looked at the other, and then they all looked at Gan in a fury. Charles rose from his seat. "This is no hunting of the stag," said he. "The sound goes to my very heart. O Gan! O Gan! Not for thee do I blush, but for myself. O foul and monstrous villain!
The architects of our day have too heavy a hand to touch these delicate works of the Renaissance. We still cherish a hope that they will not dare. Moreover, this demolition of the Tuileries now, would be not only a brutal deed of violence, which would make a drunken vandal blush it would be an act of treason.
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