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There were yellow daffodils between white curtains very white and high up. As he stepped out, the Doctor glanced involuntarily towards them, and a half-breath of relief escaped him, instantly quenched in a nervous frown and jump as his arm was seized by a firm gloved hand. "Doctor, this is really providential! You are the very person I wished to see!"
Then Helen saw in his eyes his mental start; the look of resignation vanished and his black brows, so like Bruce's, contracted in a frown. "He's alive then," Burt's voice was hard. Helen nodded. "I've come to see you on his behalf." "Oh, he's in trouble." His voice had an acid edge. "He wants me to help him out." "In trouble yes but I'm not sure he'd forgive me if he knew I had come."
He opened it with a contemptuous frown, expecting to find within only indignant upbraidings; but his face changed rapidly as he read the following words: "MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND I hardly know which of us should apologize. I now perceive and frankly admit that there was wrong on my side.
Thus tantalized, he lounged with them to the door of the house in which they lodged, when his mistress, perceiving, by the countenance of her comrade, that she was on the point of desiring him to walk in, checked her intention with a frown; then, turning to Mr. Pickle, dropped him a very formal curtsy, seized the other young lady by the arm, and saying, "Come, cousin Sophy," vanished in a moment.
She passed out swiftly with the words before her step-mother's gathering wrath could descend upon her. One of Mrs. Ingleton's main grievances was that it was so difficult to corner Sylvia when she wanted to give free vent to her violence. She watched the girl's slim figure pass out into the pale November sunshine, and her frown turned to a very bitter smile.
"Do you know, we were so frightened about putting in that advertisement you answered! Dan was terribly against it." A troubled little frown knitted her level brows. "But we've had such bad luck on the farm since we were married the rain spoilt all our crops last year and we lost several valuable animals so I thought it would help a bit if we took paying-guests this summer.
She stood for a minute looking down toward the stables, and the wind that blew down the coulee seized upon the scant folds of her skirt, and flapped them impishly against the silken-clad ankles that were exceedingly good to look upon, since fashion has now made it quite permissible to look upon ankles. Her lips did not relax with the waiting. Her frown grew a trifle more pronounced. "Mr.
The pupils of Livingstone's eyes contracted ominously; a lurid flash shot out from under his black, bent brows, and there came on his lip that peculiar smile that we fancy on the face of Homeric heroes more fell, and cruel, and terrible than even their own frown just before they leveled the spear.
"Forasmuch as the common fine and amercement of the whole county in Eyre of the justices for false judgments, or for other trespass, is unjustly assessed by sheriffs and baretors in the shires, it is provided, and the king wills, that frown henceforth such sums shall be assessed before the justices in Eyre, afore their departure, by the oath of knights and other honest men," &c. 3 Edward I., Ch. 18.
Here Don Luis bit his lips, and a frown contracted his brow. Yet he controlled himself, and asked with barely perceptible excitement, "Then I may inform his Majesty that you would be disposed to keep this secret?" "Yes," she answered curtly. "But, so far as the convent is concerned, you persist in your refusal?" "Even a noble and kind man would never induce me to take the veil."
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