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An evil spirit incarnate he seemed to her. She blanched before it every vestige of colour fled from her features she stared she gaped at him with a strange look of imbecility and the long face seemed to enjoy and protract its triumph. Without removing his gaze he was fumbling in his pocket for his note-book, which he displayed with a faint smile, grim and pallid.
'Impossible! she exclaimed also in an undertone; she shook her finger at him, and at once began to bid good-bye both to him and the long secretary, who was, to judge by every symptom, head over ears in love with her; he positively gaped every time he looked at her.
Then the princess told me many things of Govan, and among others that the poor folk held that when the Danes came and stole the bell from him he had been hidden from them in the rock wall of the chapel, which had gaped to take him in, closing on him and setting him free when danger was past.
As for Tressady, he gaped, scowled, fumbled with the dagger in his girdle, loosed it, slapped his thigh and burst into a roar of laughter. "Oh, burn me, here's a soul!" he cried. "'Tis a wench o' spirit, all hell-fire spirit and deviltry, rot me!
I started to find that I knew what he meant. Till that moment, in my Second State, I had learned no French, and didn't know I could speak any. But I recognised the words quite well as soon as he uttered them. My lost knowledge reasserted itself. They bundled on my boxes. The crowd still stood around and gaped at me, open-mouthed. I got into the cab, more dead than alive.
''Appen you may have, ma'am, he answered, quite coolly, looking down the buttons of his gaiters. 'Are you a good whip do you drive well? 'I'll drive a plough wi' most lads hereabout, answered Tom. 'Have you ever been to Knowl, Tom? Tom gaped very innocently. 'Anan, he said. 'Here, Tom, is half-a-crown. He took it readily enough.
Her stem was above the first arc of the flood; she was broken in two a little abaft the foremast though indeed she had none, both masts having broken short in her disaster; and as the pitch of the beach was very sharp and sudden, and the bows lay many feet below the stern, the fracture gaped widely open, and you could see right through her poor hull upon the farther side.
The towering buildings before him rose to unbelievable heights, bathed in ever-changing rainbow colors, and he felt his pulse thumping in his temples as he gaped. He was in the New City, of that there was no doubt. This was the part of the great metropolis which had been built again since the devastating war that had nearly wiped the city from the Earth a decade before.
She left her father's side and moved to the table, a very picture of gentle decision and practice. "Three for you, my daddy," she cried, dropping three letters on his chest, where his shirt gaped just below his neck. Then she turned about. "Only one for you, honest Jeff. Just one, and I've guessed at the writing till I'm sick." Jeff was smiling up with frank amusement. "Say, that's great.
"I know how you must feel, dear," she said, gently. "I was jealous once, of one woman. But to be jealous of a factory full oh, Lord!" "Yes," Cicily declared, in tremulous tones, "all of them, and the men besides!" Mrs. Delancy bounced from her seat, then slowly subsided into the depths of the easy chair, whence she fairly gaped at her former ward.
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