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If there was fault, it was in the breadth and height of brows masterful rather than feminine. She had not one delicious sensuous charm to lure man. Her large eyes were blotted with a hopeless blankness. She waited to see what would be done next. "Now I'll tell you," said Baker to his friend, with decision, "I'm not going to bring the howling Gentiles around you."
A certain blankness a feeling difficult to define attends even the slightest disappointment; and the effect of a great one is very stunning and embittering indeed.
But what was ARDATH? It was neither a country nor a city it was a "waste field," where he had seen. ... ah! WHOM had he seen? He struggled furiously with himself for some response to this, ... none came! Total dumb blankness was the sole result of the inward rack to which he subjected his thoughts!
He was used to quick operations, however, and he had only a moment of bright blankness before replying: "Oh, there is nothing I wouldn't do for the ladies; just give me a chance and you'll see." Olive was silent a moment. "What I mean is is your sympathy a sympathy with our sex, or a particular interest in Miss Tarrant?" "Well, sympathy is just sympathy that's all I can say.
He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair. Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speaking into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.
The sight filled Lily with such surprise that she felt that Bertha, at least, must read its meaning in her look, and she was proportionately disconcerted by the blankness of the look returned. But in an instant she saw that Mrs. Dorset had, of necessity, to look blank before the others, and that, to mitigate the effect of her own surprise, she must at once produce some simple reason for it.
"My dear, you have never seen the procession of the seasons from such a point of view as that which he enjoys." "No, and I do not care to. It is quite lonely enough for me right here." Redfield looked at Lee with comic blankness. "Mrs. Redfield is hopelessly urban. As the wife of a forest supervisor, she cares more for pavements and tram-cars than for the most splendid mountain park."
But gradually the blankness of his terrified face departed, and there came a new expression an expression in which there was equal terror, yet at the same time a full recognition of the danger before him. It was Leon Dudleigh. Reginald said not one word, but looked at him with a stern, relentless face.
With flying feet she followed down the dark old stairs and across the anteroom into the dim salon, only to find a candle-lighted table set for dinner in the middle of the room and Captain Kerissen bowing ceremoniously beside it. In the blankness of her disappointment she scarcely grasped what he was saying about the dinner hour being early and his sister being indisposed.
This only brings it to a head. Of course she wants money...." His thoughts came on again. "But the ugliness! "Why did I begin it?" He put his hands upon his knees and pressed his eyes against the backs of his hands and so remained very still, a blankness beneath his own question. After a long interval his mind moved again.
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