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The Prof was a bulky old boy, with long gray hair and long black eyebrows, and the habit of prevailing in argument. Him and Oswald never did agree on anything in my hearing, except the Chink's corn muffins; and they looked kind of mad at each other when they had to agree on them. Take the age of this earth on which we make our living.
Your crooked paths also lead to the goal, and perhaps one is less likely to stumble in them; but straight ways suit me better, and I think I have already found the right one. A friend will invite Barine to an estate far away from here, perhaps in the lake regions." "You?" cried Iras, her narrow eyebrows suddenly contracting.
"I wish you to understand, Lord Ronald," she said stiffly as she did so, "that my reply is final." He lifted his eyebrows for a second, and she fancied could it have been mere fancy? that the grey eyes shone with a certain steely determination that was assuredly foreign to his whole nature as he made deliberate reply: "That is quite understood, Mrs. Denvers.
"Is this unpleasant?" he asked, looking up from under his eyebrows. Leam blushed, hesitated, trembled. "No," she then said in a low voice, "not from you." On which he kissed it again, and Leam had no wish to retract her confession. "Now go and make ready to come to the castle," he said after a moment's pause. "I told you before that you must obey me, now that you have promised to be my wife.
Thick eyebrows well formed except that the left one took a whimsical turn upward; heavy lashes, the high, thin nose of the Mexican who is part Indian as are practically all of the lower, or peon class that much he had plenty of time to note. Then there was the mouth, which Starr knew might be utterly changed in appearance when one saw the chin that went with it.
But I am not bad. If there was any sense in things they would give me an order and a nice long title Grande Maitresse de la Vie Princesse de Joie." She lifted her eyebrows at him to see whether he appreciated the joke. "Ah well no. I talk too much about myself. Tell me instead what you think of my leetle 'ome. C'est joli, n'cest-ce-pas?"
Pavel Afanasievitch was sitting in his own room, looking through a collection of faded butterflies. With lifted eyebrows and protruding lips, he was carefully, with a pin, turning over the fragile wings of a 'night sphinx' moth, when he was suddenly aware of a small but heavy hand on his shoulder. He looked round. Vassily stood before him.
Then her eyebrows are too large; therefore, indeed, she doth all in her power to remedy this with her pincers; for if it was not for those, her eyebrows would be preposterous. And lastly, she is both too short, and too tall. Well, you may laugh, Mr. James, I know what I mean, though I cannot well express it. I mean, that she is too tall for a pretty woman, and too short for a fine woman.
'What does the pigmy say to the giant? rejoined Ralph, elevating his eyebrows and looking down upon his questioner. 'He doesn't know what to say, replied Arthur Gride. 'He hopes and fears. But is she not a dainty morsel? 'I have no great taste for beauty, growled Ralph. 'But I have, rejoined Arthur, rubbing his hands. 'Oh dear! How handsome her eyes looked when she was stooping over him!
Spargo a mild little man lifted his eyebrows. "Surely, madam " he began in a scandalized tone. "This is Harry Brooks." Mrs. Stimcoe introduced me loftily. "If you wish him to retire, be kind enough to say so, and have done with it. Our boarders, I may say, have the run of the house it is part of Mr. Stimcoe's system. But Harry has too much delicacy to remain where he feels himself de trop.
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