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No! her eyes were on the flames which were so bright now that he could actually see them glassed in her eyeballs. Would a shout attract her? The air was full of cries as the yards filled with escaping figures, but he would attempt it at the first lull now while her head was turned his way. Did she hear him? Yes. She is looking at him. "Don't jump," he cried. "Tie your sheet to the bedpost.
One end of the room was glassed in as if in a huge oak frame, and the wall behind it was literally covered with signed photographs. "Most of 'em are royalties," Joyselle explained with a certain naïf pride, "beginning with your late Queen. I used to play Norman folk-songs to her.
would make gentle George amorous of a worse-featured face than high-nosed Isabel; 'strange to spell or rede, as I would wager my best destrier to a tailor's hobby, the damozel surely is." John to one of his Towton comrades, as, leaning against the wall, they overheard the sarcasms of Anthony, and the laugh of the courtiers, who glassed their faces and moods to his.
Whenever a Stoic appeared, he was at once cut out, framed, glassed, and hung alongside his fellows in this room. And George moved from one to another till he came to the last. It was himself. He was represented in very perfectly cut clothes, with slightly crooked elbows, and race-glasses slung across him.
He rose from where he sat, and shuffled awkwardly around the great room, devoting exaggerated attention to some books in the glassed cases, and twirling his fingers in acute embarrassment. "You scared him away," chided Ruth, under her breath, as our glances met. "He and I were getting positively chummy." "Why was he talking of your birthday? I asked. "I don't know, I'm sure.
At these moments for I took pains to overlook the shocking scene the Honourable George followed her with eyes no longer glassed; the eyes of helpless infatuation. "He looks at her," Cousin Egbert had said. He had told it all and told it well.
Her lips were firmly compressed; her eyes were fixed on some distant dream, glassed with two tears, that stood still in their chalices, forbidden to fall. I almost trembled as I caught her glance. "Sister! Agnes Emily!" she exclaimed, in a husky whisper. "Hush! be calm! Don't break my heart! Do I love home less than " The effort was too much; the words died on her lips.
In the middle of the glassed front was the big brass wheel, shining with polish and friction, and revolving artistically in the hands of its steersman, who kept his eye fixed alternately on the water and on his compass.
He passed down the lines of huts and paused outside each bunkhouse. His reason was obvious. There was a question in his mind as to the whereabouts of the crowd of his men who usually thronged the liquor store at this hour of the evening. It was at the last bunkhouse he paused longest. He stood for quite a while listening under the double glassed window.
It was she, she, indeed! and judgment was glassed in the look I met judgment and nothing more kindly, however I might appeal to Heaven for mercy or whatever the need of my fiercely startled and repentant soul. Dead! Adelaide! the woman I had planned to wrong that very night, and who had thus wronged me!
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