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"Monsieur, she cannot even be moved from her bed to a chair; they lift her with pulleys." "You are not a physician, I suppose?" said the Jewish doctor, with a singular grimace which made his face appear more wicked than it really was. "If the Baron de Nucingen sent word that he was ill and wanted you to visit him, would you reply, 'Let him come here to me'?"
Her temple struck a sharp rock, and Claudio missed his bride. He had to keep quiet about it, though. What could he prove? what could any one prove? Where knives are sharp and people mind their own business, or express their opinions only by a shrug of the shoulders and a grimace, how is a poor boy, how is even a rich man or a rich woman, to come at the truth in such a case?
There was plenty of light, even if the sun had gone down. She was not uncertain at all as to the nature of the figure that confronted her that of a man. She saw almost instantly that the old man's brown eyes were more like a child's in expression than like an angry man's. He grinned at her, but the grimace was involuntary or meaningless. "Hush!" he whispered. "Hush!"
"No, I won't," she said, more than half to herself. She sat brooding for a moment; then suddenly her mood changed. She sprang up, shook her skirts free, and seated herself at the piano. To Orde, who had also arisen, she made a quaint grimace over her shoulder. "Admire your handiwork!" she told him.
I suppose they'll have to come some day" with a small grimace of disgust. "You'll be snowed under with them," Gillian assured her encouragingly. The public announcement of the engagement preceded Magda's return from Netherway by a few days, so that by the time the Hermitage house-party actually broke up, its various members returning to town, all London was fairly humming with the news.
A Prince of Auhalt who is here is very much in love with her; but the good gentleman is ugly enough, so that there is no danger. She dances well, and sings better; reads music at sight, and understands the accompaniment perfectly; and she sings without any grimace.
Hilda noticed that, instead of raising his voice, Christian spoke in the same tone, or even lower, as he said: "We want some details of the establishment at Porton Abbey, Signor Bruno." The old gentleman made a little grimace expressive of disgust, at the same time spreading out his hands as if to ward off something hurtful. "Ach!" he said, "do not ask me.
He made a curious grimace one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations threw down his cue and followed me from the room. "Well, Jane?" he said, as he rested his back against the schoolroom door, which he had shut. "If you please, sir, I want leave of absence for a week or two." "What to do? where to go?" "To see a sick lady who has sent for me." "What sick lady? where does she live?"
Besides, she says Lieutenant Brown would have got well if you'd minded her, and let him have plenty of thoroughwort tea, and put a split fowl at the pit of his stomach." "A split stick on her own tongue would be better," said the Doctor, with a wicked grimace. "The Jezebel! Let her look out for herself the next time she gets the rheumatism; I'll blister her from head to heel.
Penurot's pale face turned almost green; Brandelaar's hard features were frightfully distorted in a grimace of rage. Half choking in the effort to keep down a furious curse, he drew a deep breath, and said "I don't know any Admiral Hollway, and I have never been in Dover in my life." "Well, well! Let us talk about your business or yours, M. Penurot.
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