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Allan laughed a blithe contented little laugh. "Any way that you like to spend the afternoon will please me," he said, "so long as I am not deprived of your presence. Oh, not that way," he added, as a little frown crept between her golden-brown eyebrows, "that way excepted." "Very well. I'll not frown at you, but you must promise not to come so near again to the verge of a compliment."
He had a small face, yellowish eyes, hair coming down to his eyebrows, a sharp nose, large transparent ears, like a bat's, and a beard that looked as if it were a fortnight's growth, and never grew more nor less. This, then, was Styopushka, whom I met on the bank of the Ista in company with another old man. I went up to him, wished him good-day, and sat down beside him.
Nor did she release her clasp until they were some yards beyond the gully. Mrs. Blake had seen not only the expression that betrayed Ashton's anger but also the action that caused it. She raised her fine eyebrows; but meeting Ashton's significant glance, she sought to pass over the incident with a smile. He refused to respond. All during the remainder of the drive he sat in sullen silence.
Mary started guiltily and denied it. "Well, what in time do you want with dogs on the basin?" Mis' Winslow demanded. Almost against her own wish, Mary told her. Mis' Winslow was one of those whose faces are invariable forerunners of the sort of thing they are going to say. With eyebrows, eyes, forehead, head, and voice she took the news. "He is! Forever and ever more. When's he going to get here?"
"Oh, that!" said Mabel. And when he had gone out into the wood yard, Low Jinks staring after him with the uplifted eyebrows with which both sisters, the glum and the grim, commonly received the master's "ways", Mabel said in the gently pained way which was her admirable method of administering rebukes in the kitchen: "The woodshed is the place for the small wood axe, Rebecca."
If we take the height of the face itself, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils is one third of it; the nose from the under side of the nostrils to a line between the eyebrows is the same; from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third, comprising the forehead.
"It matches the others," she said. He arched his eyebrows in inquiry. "I wouldn't wear it," she said with a sudden quick force, "if there was not another jewel in the world. I wish he hadn't sent it. Oh, Mark, I wish I hadn't known him before I found you," she came up to him swiftly; "such men as you," she said, "if women could only meet them first " His arm went around her.
This limping, extravagant, energetic Hugh with his whitening hair and eyebrows and flaring hazel eyes with his crooked nose and mouth, his magnificently desperate manner and his magnificently desperate voice attention would inevitably fasten upon him anywhere; how much more in an empty land such as this! Pete fancied the inquiring looks turned from the man to the man's posted picture.
"Life, as he thinks, is terrible," I thought, "so don't stand on ceremony with it, bend it to your will, and until it crushes you, snatch all you can wring from it." Marya Sergeyevna was standing on the verandah. I put my arms round her without a word, and began greedily kissing her eyebrows, her temples, her neck. . . . In my room she told me she had loved me for a long time, more than a year.
Dolly was an imaginative woman, but something told him that in this case she might not be riding past the hounds. Mrs. Ercott raised herself. He looked more good than ever; a little perplexed frown had climbed up with his eyebrows and got caught in the wrinkles across his forehead. "I'm very fond of Olive," he said. Mrs. Ercott fell back on her pillows.
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