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For the first time I saw one of his features move; a fighting teeth-baring curl of the lip.... "Not Hermann, perhaps." He lost himself in thought as though he had fallen out of the world. I may note that the idea of suicide apparently did not enter his head for a single moment. It occurred to me to ask: "Where was it that this shipwreck of yours took place?"
Yonder is Goupil's; let us stop and have a look at those new engravings mamma told us about yesterday. Hattie, you can curl up in your corner, and go to sleep and dream of boiled lamb till we come back." Later in the day Mrs. Andrews went up to Edna's room, and found her correcting an exercise. "At work as usual. You are incorrigible.
And pride oh, that hateful sin what have children to do with pride? Helpless and dependent as they are on parents or friends, what have they to be proud of? Nothing! Look at that curly-headed little boy, Freddy Ellis, who would be beautiful were it not for the disdainful curl on his upper lip, and the indignant expression in his eye when he has received some supposed affront.
"Perhaps it is," the girl said, laughing, and looking round with just a little curl of her lip; "but you know better, Jack: why should you make such a figure of yourself?" "I dress here like what I am," Jack said simply, "a pitman. At your house I dress as one of your father's guests." "I suppose you please yourself, and that you always do, Mr.
Tall at least six feet-with a well-shaped head set on square shoulders, brown hair inclined to curl, large blue eyes which could be merry or exceedingly grave, I thought him a picture of manly beauty. Good-natured, clever, prosperous, and not yet thirty. What a dower!
Imagine along a line of a full mile, thirty thousand men struggling for life and prestige; the woods gathering about them but yesterday the home of hermit hawks and chipmonks now ablaze with bursting shells, and showing in the dusk the curl of flames in the tangled grass, and, rising up the boles of the pine trees, the scaling, scorching tongues.
The afternoon sun some eighteenth century afternoon sun came in through deep-casemented windows. Bringing the finishing touch of life to the old-time setting, she came, a curl of her dark hair across a white shoulder and her gown a quaintly fashioned silk brocade.
But the breath that stirred the loch where Tom Stoddart lay and mused in his boat, soon became to him merely the curl on the waters of lone St. Mary's or Loch Skene, and he began casting over the great uneducated trout of a happier time, forgetful of the Muse. He wrote another piece, with a sonorous and delightful title, "Ajalon of the Winds."
"What a fool I was!" he thought, for he felt the trunk curl round his neck and tighten gently; and his heart began to fail, when it was uncurled, and stretched out again; the wall overhead creaked loudly, and the end of the trunk was dipped in the big earthen jar.
"Why, you go down there like a whole parade and a gorgeous pageant rolled into one, in feathers and paint and diamond boulders in your ears and you come out of it in a gingham apron and coy sunbonnet as sweet sixteen." "Oh!" said Helena and her eyes were on the curl of smoke from her cigarette again.
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