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Updated: June 2, 2025
Would Gordy come right up, for Pete's sake! A few minutes later Philip Dean, dressed in blue silk pajamas, opened his door and the two young men greeted each other with a half-embarrassed exuberance. They were both about twenty-four, Yale graduates of the year before the war; but there the resemblance stopped abruptly. Dean was blond, ruddy, and rugged under his thin pajamas.
"Worth the carrying?" said Reuben, with a half-embarrassed little laugh. "I'm pretty sure you had no rubbish on your shelves, uncle." He began to turn over the leaves of the topmost book. "'Études?" he read, "'pour deux violins, par Joseph Manzini. This looks good. Who was Joseph Manzini? I never heard of him." "Manzini?" asked the old man, with a curious eagerness "Manzini."
He did not speak until they had passed down the stone steps to the pavement, and then his utterance began with a half-embarrassed stammer, as if the shadow of displeasure demanded justification on his part. "You you see, Miss Amhurst, we have been properly introduced." For the first time he heard the girl laugh, just a little, and the sound was very musical to him.
Then, almost in the same instant, they were veiled. She caught her breath, saying no word, only dumbly waiting. "I could only take you as my wife," he said, still in that half-bantering, half-embarrassed fashion of his. "Will you come?" She threw back her head and stared at him. "Marry you! What, really? Really?" she questioned, breathlessly.
"Can't raise the other one," said the citizen, with a contortion of his lineaments. "What's the matter with it?" "Rheumatism in the shoulder." "Inflammatory?" "Was. The inflammation has gone down." The burglar stood for a moment or two, holding his gun on the afflicted one. He glanced at the plunder on the dresser and then, with a half-embarrassed air, back at the man in the bed.
Do you know," he went on, in a lower tone and with a half-embarrassed smile, "that when I saw you just now in the garden, you looked as I imagined you might have looked in the first days of your widowhood when your husband's death was fresh in your heart." A strange expression crossed her face.
Oh, no, decidedly, the visit was not a success.... "You see," he explained with a half-embarrassed smile, "it was partly her fault. Other girls as clever, but less how shall I say? less proud, would have adapted themselves, arranged things, avoided startling allusions. She wouldn't stoop to that; she talked to my family as naturally as she did to me.
It sounds like a battle of the Revolution. Is it a battle of the Revolution? Just to think that all this time we have been entertaining unawares a real live battle!" De Laney grinned, half-embarrassed as usual. "It's a family name," said he. "It's the name of an ancestor." He never knew whether or not these vivacious youths really desired the varied information they demanded.
At the sound of his approach she straightened herself up with a smiling, half-embarrassed welcome shining in her eyes. "Don't you come too near," she exclaimed. "I'm all over axle dope. It truly is the messiest job ever. But what are you to do when the boys clear out, and and play you such a scurvy trick? I've been relying on Nick to drive me out and bring the wagon back.
There was something fascinating about the stocky little fellow with his half-embarrassed grin. One felt that of himself he would do no man hurt, yet that a curt order would cause him to send one of those long steel-jacketed bullets through a man and into the mountain side beyond. Luckily he got no such orders.
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