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At all events, we were taught wisely and well, in directions to which the fashionable girls' schools of the day did not lift an eye-lash.
Another had a printed address in the corner an address that started his pulse a beat or two faster; for he had not yet reached that blase stage where he could receive a personal letter from one of the "Eight Leading" without the flicker of an eye-lash. He still gloated over his successes, and was cast into the deeps by his failures.
"Yes," said Mr. Blithers. Robin grinned. He was amused in spite of himself. "You take it for granted that I can be bought?" "I have not made any such statement." "And how much will you hand over to the man of her choice when she marries him?" enquired the young man. "You will be her choice," said the other, without the quiver of an eye-lash. "How can you be sure of that?
Into this wide waste of muddy ripples every sound in the school-room swam, and also sights and colors, till between her eye-lash and that filmy distant margin nothing existed but a freshet, alive yet with nothing, eddying around with purposeless power, and still moving onward with an under force.
Not until he halted to seek quarters for the soldiers did he hear from Hornecht, the captain of the archers, what had happened during the night. He listened silently, without the quiver of an eye-lash, or a word of questioning, until his men had pitched their tents.
His stockings, of apple rind, they tie With eye-lash plucked from his mother's eye, His shoes were made of a mouse's skin, Nicely tanned, with the hair within."
Sanderson, during his visits to the Bartlett farm and they became more frequent as time went on would look at Anna with cold curiosity, not unmixed with contempt, when by chance they happened to be alone for a moment. But the girl never displayed by so much as the quiver of an eye-lash that she had ever seen him before.
When I look back it seems strange that the gay and inocent young girl of the train can have been!. So much that is tradgic has since happened. If I had not had a cinder in my eye things would have been diferent. But why repine? Fate frequently hangs thus on a single hair an eye-lash, as one may say. Father met me at the train.
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