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Bines," he said, coming up hurriedly behind Percival with several specimens of ore, "you forgot these." "-r-r-r. Bines, how do you do!" concluded the girl with an eye-flash of gratitude at the humble instrument that had prevented an undue hiatus in her salutation. They were apart from the others and for the moment unnoticed.
Wings have so many uses that I am curious to try them all." "May each new flight they take be for the good of Atlantis." "Oh," she said, with an eye-flash, "I know what you have most at heart. But we will go back to the pyramid, and talk this out at more leisure. I pray you now, my lord, conduct me back to my riding beast."
"For a moment, a vital moment, the prince hesitated, but brief as the pause, scarcely the durance of an eye-flash, Lal Lu saw it, and gazed upon the prince with a disconcerting directness as he added, with the haste we note in the accused who attempt to distract suspicion by the utterance of glib generalities: "'My queen! Thou art always that!
For monumental beauty kills only poets and dreamers, and these young gentlemen were Squires. The verdict of one of them about her tells its tale: "A stunner to look at, but too standoffish for my money!" She was nothing of the sort; and would gladly, to oblige, have shot a smile or an eye-flash at either of them if her heart had not been so heavy.
It seemed almost certain that her appearance had once been disarming, that the threat in her eye-flash and tilted head was a trick learned by contact with many young ladies who needed finishing more than they would admit. Of course this did not explain why Miss Lansdale should visually but patently disparage me at this moment.
"Oh come in," he said cordially, and his pause of absolute astonishment was brief as an eye-flash. "This is delightful " And as she passed into the room he caught her eyes and, looking a warning, said: "I am so glad to see you. I began to be afraid you wouldn't be able to come." "I saw you in the Bois the other day," said Lady St. Craye, "and I have been wanting to know you ever since."
These were the earliest forms in which that subtle, all-pervading force revealed itself to men. In the childhood of the race men stood dumb in the presence of its more terrible manifestations. When it gleamed in the purple aurora, or shot dusky-red from the clouds, it was the eye-flash of an angry God before whom mortals quailed in helpless fear."
He accompanied the compliment by a glance of admiration, extinguished in an eye-flash, for the white radiance that had bathed the deck suddenly vanished. "Now you will see a lovely sight," said the woman, deigning no reply to his tribute; "listen! That is the signal." The air was shaken with the boom of cannon. Once, twice, thrice. Directly the boat-whistles took up the roar, making a hideous din.
In his first astounded sight of her, in her limp nankeen sunbonnet, thrown back from her head by the impetus of her flight, he saw only too much hair, two much white teeth, too much eye-flash, and, above all, as it appeared to him, too much confidence in the power of these qualities.
An eye-flash from the maid may have perceived his abjectness, for she said haughtily at length, "I'm astonished no one in this house knows where Clytie is!" He drew nearer by as far as he could slowly spread his feet twice. "I know now she went to get two glasses from the dresser to take to my grandfather and that gentleman." He felt voluble from the mere ease of the answer.
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