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Daisy eyed her rough bristling hair, with an odd kind of feeling that it would not be more difficult to comb down into smoothness than the unregulated thoughts of her mind. She must begin gently. But Daisy's eyes grew most wistfully earnest. "Would you shoot Mr. Lamb for taking away your nuts?" "Just as lieves." "Then how do you think he would feel about your taking his nuts?" "I don't care!"
Dodge eyed the young man dubiously for a dozen seconds or so. "Comin'! comin'!" cried Mr. Dodge, in response to a seemingly vociferous call which had failed to reach Lynde's ear. When Edward Lynde had finished dinner, Mary was brought to the door. Under the supervision of a group of spectators assembled on the piazza, Lynde mounted, and turned the mare's head directly for Rivermouth.
Finn eyed her gravely, appraisingly, yet also without thought. He, too, had been unreflectingly absorbing the beauty of the morning; and now his enjoyment became suddenly narrowed down and concentrated.
Dashing from behind the desk, he skated recklessly across the tiles to open the door. "Say you're all right!" His tone was emphatic and sincere. Kate eyed him without enthusiasm. "Why didn't you tell me?" he demanded. "Tell you what?" He held up the afternoon newspaper that he had in his hand.
The man's face was flushed with wine; proud of his many victories, he eyed me with a boastful contempt my patience had perhaps given him the right to feel. 'Ha! well met, sir, he said, sweeping the floor with his cap in an exaggeration of respect, 'now, perhaps, your high-mightiness will condescend to unmask?
"In fact, if I were permitted to offer a criticism, I should say you had more wire than anything else. How lengthy a circuit do you expect to cover?" "Oh, we're not ambitious," Laurie replied. "If we can cross the room we shall be satisfied, although now that you mention it, perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing if it could run from my room at home over here." He eyed his father furtively.
"Forty-five, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty " counted Tex, and with a five-dollar bill between his thumb and forefinger, eyed Purdy condescendingly: "I'm a-goin' to let you drag down that five if you want to," he said, "'cause you've sure kissed good-bye to the rest of it.
Gerald himself seemed to be much occupied. Precisely at eleven every morning, however, he appeared at the gymnasium for his practice; and in this Orde dropped into the habit of joining him. When the young men first stripped in each other's presence, they eyed each other with a secret surprise.
He sat staring at the telegram, his mouth open. His friend eyed him solicitously. "No bad news, I hope?" Mr. Brewster gurgled in a strangled way. "Bad news? Bad ? Here, read it for yourself." Professor Binstead, one of the three most inquisitive men in New York, took the slip of paper with gratitude. "'Returning New York to-day with darling Archie," he read. "'Lots of love from us both.
The mate eyed him with interest, and was about to supply him with further details when his attention was attracted by footsteps descending the companion-ladder. Then he put down his cup with great care, and stared in stolid amazement at the figure of Miss Jewell in the doorway. "I'm a bit late," she said, flushing slightly.
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