"What bashfulness has taken you to-day, sir ?" he cried, "That is not like your usual.

There are twenty pretty dames here who pine for a word from you." I saw his purpose well enough.

He loved to make mischief, and knew that the sight of me among the Virginian gentry would infuriate my unfriends.

But I took him at his word and elbowed my way into the enclosure.
Then I wished to Heaven I had stayed at home.

I got insolent glances from the youths, and the cold shoulder from the ladies.