So the young lieutenant, taking no notice whatever of the cessation of the dancing, continued his story, and told several more, which Miss Nan found intensely interesting-so absorbing, indeed, that she met the eyes of her companion without any abashment, and frequently laughed in her low, quiet way.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
On glancing at her countenance, his momentary abashment became suddenly changed to a feeling of triumph.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
But me-thinks the answer to that is, that the instruments whereby it may please Heaven to work out its purposes are not of our choosing, but of Heaven's; and those that cavil may recall, to their own abashment, how one that was of the same way of life as our Vittoria was permitted by celestial grace to be a minister unto holiness.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy