" "Explained what?" asked Sabina, looking as demure as a little brown mouse.

Now, surely, I found this plan, that I attend not to the Maid, to have something of success; for I knew presently that she did look upward at me, slyly, from under her pretty eyelashes; and after, to be demure in a moment; and this to go forward for a while; yet I to show no heed.

" "O, I'm a sober matron now," said she, with a comic attempt to look demure about the mouth, while her eyes were laughing.

But at length, one day in May, 1822, in a small private office behind Monsieur Vignevielle's banking-room,he sitting beside a table, and she, more timid and demure than ever, having just taken a chair by the door,she said, trying, with a little bashful laugh, to make the matter seem unimportant, and yet with some tremor of voice: "Miché Vignevielle, I bin maguing my will."

Nan's roguish face looked very demure under the white cap, and she smiled pleasantly when Patty at last recovered her wits sufficiently to introduce her father.

And Betty, still at Susan's side, By this time is not quite so flurried: Demure with porringer and plate She sits, as if in Susan's fate 130 Her life and soul were buried.

A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; 20 A queen in crown of rubies drest; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.