Meanwhile we had begun to walk along, all three of us, Tom, obviously ill at ease and discomfited, lagging a little behind.
But as often as Sholto dropped a little behind, keeping pace with Maid Margaret's slower palfrey so that Maud was sure he looked at her, the pretty coquette cast down her eyes in affected humility and sorrow.
He rode up, therefore, and craved permission to speak to the Earl, seizing an occasion when David had fallen a little behind.
I had come out into Holborn, and was making my way towards my rooms, when my guardian, who had hovered a little behind me, and had followed me wonderingly, touched me on the arm.
He spoke no further words; as I strode on through the streets he came after me at a sort of trot--ever keeping a little behind me and at my elbow.
She walked a little behind my bath chair as we turned out of the Reservoires courtyard and began ascending the avenue in the parc, so that I could not converse with her.
Did it often happen, in the course of your experience, that you were a little behind in that way?
It may happen that after a bad fishing many of these men may get a little behind, but after a successful fishing there are not more than one third or one fourth of them who are in debt.
A boy has been at the beach, and then he goes to the haaf; perhaps the first year or two he will require to fall a little behind; but if he is an honest, provident lad, he will soon clear off that.
The only article I supply them with is meal, and it is principally the poorer men who get it from me; that is, men who are a little behind, and who would not get credit so readily as some of their neighbours.
He got up and walked across the room, and stood a little behind her, where she could not see his face.
Then the road became narrow again, and Hampstead fell a little behind.
Just as Crocker joined them the road had become narrow, and the young lord had fallen a little behind.
She stopped, withdrawing a little behind a willow, and studied his appearance.
Mrs. Pryor was seated a little behind, knitting as it seemed, but, in truth, watching her.
Robert was leaning against the wall, a little behind her, turning over the leaves of a book of engravings, and probably listening, at the same time, to the dialogue between her and Louis.
Ellinor, enviously glancing at her sister's absorption, as, lingering a little behind, she devoured the contents of her letter.
I am persuaded that when I left him a little behind, I saw him heave up his hand, for I got just a waft of it with the tail of my eye.
At the far end of the school was a wooden bar a foot from the floor, and a little behind it another.
As the Earl spoke, I, who stood a little behind with my finger on the cock of my pistol, saw my lord raise a questioning eyebrow at me, as if to ask his uncle who the young squire might be whom he had brought with him.
But since there was none that directly knew of our adventure, no one stood forth save our Marjorie and Nell, till I myself stepped forth with them, with Robert Harburgh and the Dominie a little behind us.
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