Into Emily's pale cheek came a scarlet protest.
To be sure, the classical effect was just now rather smothered in hop vines that rioted over the whole porch and hung in pale-green festoons above the rows of potted scarlet geraniums that flanked the steps.
Cousin Jimmy only meant that she would better let Aunt Elizabeth buy "things" for her when she was in the humour for it; but Emily thought he was rebuking her for mentioning such matters as underclothes and subsided in scarlet conviction.
Then there was a beautiful "tatting" collar from her mother, some scarlet mittens from Mrs.
It was a rustly day, a scarlet and buff, yellow and carmine, bronze and crimson day.
Far to the east was Castletown Bay, large, shallow and inhospitable, its floor strewn with a thousand unseen wrecks; the lighthouse at Scarlet Point flashed dimly in the dusk; thence the beach curved nearer in an immense arc, without a sign of life, to the little cove of Port St.
" "I don't blush—I never do blush," affirmed she, while another eddy from the heart sent up its scarlet.
What fatal influence had impelled me lately to introduce flowers under the brim of my bonnet, to wear 'des cols brodés,' and even to appear on one occasion in a scarlet gown—he might indeed conjecture, but, for the present, would not openly declare.
It wore white, sprinkled slightly with drops of scarlet; its girdle was red; it had something in its hair leafy, yet shining—a little wreath with an evergreen gloss.
So plainly it shone, that it revealed the deep alcove with a portion of the tarnished scarlet curtain drawn over it.
Outside the sun was sinking low and the west was blazing with scarlet and gold.
You may never know what scarlet and crimson really are until you see them in their perfection on an October hillside, under the unfathomable blue of an autumn sky.
But they are to be looked at in their glowing scarlet.
"I'm getting tired," said Cecily, whose breath was coming rather quickly and whose pale cheeks had bloomed into scarlet.
Her eyes were their grayest, and scarlet spots burned on her cheeks.
She looked very pale and tired; but the love locks under her scarlet cap were curling about her face and eyes like little sparkling rings of gold.
She was dressed prettily and carefully, with the customary touch of color in the scarlet geranium at her white throat.
The day had begun sombrely in gray cloud and mist, but it had ended in a pomp of scarlet and gold.
It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk bonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.
" As we talked, we neared a door that opened on the road; and my young lady, lightening into sunshine again, climbed up and seated herself on the top of the wall, reaching over to gather some hips that bloomed scarlet on the summit branches of the wild-rose trees shadowing the highway side: the lower fruit had disappeared, but only birds could touch the upper, except from Cathy's present station.
