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Those schools wherein the last of the Farquaharsons had derived his primary education had not starred or featured the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier. Stuart's eyes dwelt devouringly on the elocutionist as yet unruffled by suspicion. They were doing their best to say the things at which his lips balked.

She shook her head. "No," she said. "I never possessed anything so beautiful in my life." "But you drop it as you come, I think, yes?" The man's eyes were levelled at her devouringly. Quick as thought he turned to Elas watching the scene. "Is it yours? I see it on the carpet, yes?" The manager was prompt to take his cue. "It's not mine," he said. "It must be yours, Miss McDonald.

"I don't know," he replied, evasively. "Something about politics, I suppose." She came over and stood beside him in silence. She was very girlish, in spite of her assumption of a young lady's dress and airs, and she loved him devouringly. She stood so close to him that she could put her hand on his, as it lay on the table.

Guy understood this illusion and winced, the unsteady voice still continued: "Since Honor's welfare in the dim future, when I shall be dead and gone, promises to be safe, I have had no reluctance to die. I lived for her." At these words Guy strained every nerve in his body and listened devouringly. Vivian spoke next,

Her eyes hung devouringly upon the blank door a door opening and Erik standing, smiling at her. It was still a dream. It would never become real. She would always feel frightened. Though he came home a hundred thousand times she would always wait like now for the door to open with a fear and a dream in her heart. But why did he knock? She opened the door with a feverish jerk. Not Erik.

Larkin never hurt anyone; tut, tut; sit down, and look at your book. But Rachel, with a smile of love and gratification, lifted the little man up in her arms, and kissed him; and his thin, little legs were clasped about her waist, and his arms round her neck, and he kissed her with his wet face, devouringly, blubbering 'the frightle man you doatie! the frightle man! 'Then, Mr.

For that must be the idolatrous devotion desired by them all. Weyburn struck down upon his man's nature the bad in us, when beauty of woman is viewed; or say, the old original revolutionary, best kept untouched; for a touch or a meditative pause above him, fetches him up to roam the civilized world devouringly and lawlessly.

Her neighbor looked at her devouringly, once or twice, when he saw Tristram could not observe him, and then began to murmur immensely entreprenant love sentences in his own tongue, as he played with his bread. She knew he had recognized her. And Tristram wondered why his lady's little nostrils should begin to quiver and her eyes to flash.

Modern zoologic science explodes the popular fallacy that chameleons assume, and reflect at will, the color of the substance on which they rest or feed; but, with a profound salaam to savants, it is respectfully submitted that the mental saurian human thought certainly takes its changing hues, day by day, from the books through which it crawls devouringly.

What she really learned was, as with her mates, another matter for, of course, those devouringly active little minds did not spend six hours a day in school without learning something incessantly.