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He has his meals out and the portress keeps the house as best she can. The woman is devoted to us..." Prasville persisted in his investigations for nearly an hour and a half, shifting and fingering all the knick-knacks, but taking care to put everything back exactly where he found it. At nine o'clock, however, the two detectives who had followed Daubrecq burst into the study: "He's coming back!"
Such skill as yours should be put to more manly uses than fingering the harp and carrying the wine cup, and I have now a mind to see what you can do in active warfare. There is trouble among the people over in the Isle of Dago. I have had news that a rebellion has broken out, and that the islanders have chosen a new king to themselves and refused to acknowledge their rightful sovereign.
"Some things never grow old, my dear, and shame is one of them." Laura dismissed the assertion with a shrug of scornful protest, and turned the conversation at once into another channel. "Am I anything like my mother, Uncle Percival?" she asked abruptly. For a moment the old man pondered the question in silence, his little red hands fingering the mouth of his flute.
Inside were the discoloured pearls on their bed of yellowed satin, and the ivory-tinted slip of paper on which he had written, so long ago, in his clear, boyish hand: "First, from the depths of the sea, and then from the depths of my love." Being unemotional, he experienced nothing at first, save natural surprise. He stood there, staring into vacancy, idly fingering the pearls.
Men that like the touch of the sloe in me shall never be drawn away by your sweet lips. She was, indeed, like a magpie, never still for a minute, fingering Katharine's hair, lifting the medallion upon her chest, poking her dark eyes close to the embroidery on her stomacher.
"One point Paderewski is very particular about, and that is fingering. He often carefully marks the fingering for a whole piece; once this is decided upon it must be kept to. He believes in employing a fingering which is most comfortable to the hand, as well as one which, in the long run, will render the passage most effective.
He was there for some time, and they could hear him fingering the tubes and treading on the broken glass. He came out again at last. He was seriously offended. "You should have told us your husband was an inventor." "I didn't think it was of importance," said Vera. "Everything is of importance," he answered. The atmosphere was now entirely changed.
He was a ragged-looking being, yet his loose, untidy clothing became him so well that his appearance seemed almost neat it was certainly natural: he was dressed in the day, the garden, the open air. Judy and Tim ran up fearlessly and began fingering the bits of stuff that clung to him from the fields and ditches. In his beard were some stray rose leaves and the feather of a little bird.
She moved about the place, fingering the rare tapestries, contemplating probably what gorgeous hangings they would make for her own apartment. Dora's preoccupation gave Long Fang his opportunity to confer with Paul alone and he moved closer to him. "Master," he nodded, "why not use the beautiful lady to lure the other one into our power?" Paul shook his head negatively.
A conference was held over the turkey, lying limp in the center of the kitchen table. The six eyed him respectfully. "Oughtn't this be firm?" asked Anna, fingering a flexible breast- bone. "No-o " But Susan was not very sure. "Do you know how to stuff them, Anna?" "Look in the books," suggested Philip.
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