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He could not see how genuinely comic was his own unreconstructed ardor how exaggerated was his cocksure manner how thoroughly he spoke as though he himself had bled on the field of honor. From her hammock she watched him with serene and inscrutable complacency, from under long, half-closed lashes. In his gaze was inarticulate wrath, but back of that idolatry.
Raimon returned from an errand to the street she was amazed to find a tall and handsome girl sitting beside the sick man's bed holding his two cold white hands in both of hers. There was a singular and thrilling serenity in the stranger's face a composure that was exaltation, while Harold, with half-closed eyelids, lay as if in awe, gazing up into the woman's face. Mrs.
Her voice trembled so that she could hardly speak. "Yes she's in the office, waiting for her pay envelope," replied one of the girls. "Turn to the left once you're inside." Marjorie needed no second invitation; in a second she had pushed open the half-closed door. She stood face to face with Frieda Hammer! "Frieda!" she cried, rushing to her, and throwing her arms about her neck.
That evening Bridge sat for a long time scrutinizing Billy through half-closed lids, and often he found his eyes wandering to the red ring about the other's wrist; but whatever may have been within his thoughts he kept to himself. It was noon when the two sauntered into Kansas City. Billy had a dollar in his pocket a whole dollar. He had earned it assisting an automobilist out of a ditch.
Drusilla, sitting before the fire, saw all these bitter years pass like shadows before her half-closed eyes; she saw the years of toil without the reward that is woman's right the love of children, husband, a home to call her own. And yet those years had left no scar upon her soul, no rancor against the world that had taken all and given nothing except the right to live.
The prisoner, his breath rattling in his chest, lay with eyes half-closed, completely done up. Suddenly Hugh spied something that made him start violently. The man's coat lay wide open and pinned on his vest was a badge. More than that, it was a police badge, one of the badges of the police of High Ridge. "Bob," gasped Hugh in alarm, "this man's a detective." "What!" cried Bob. "You're crazy."
Bored women looked idly out upon little Monroe, half-closed magazines in their hands. Card-playing men did not glance up as the village flashed by. On the platform of the observation car the usual well-wrapped girl and pipe-smoking young man were carrying on the usual flirtation. Martie saw the train nearly every day, but never without a thrill.
He stared at the hieroglyphics with a thoughtful face, with his brow knitted into tiny wrinkles over his half-closed eyes. We all, more or less, shared Captain Rudstone's curiosity. For a minute we gazed in silence at the strange marks the company men stolidly, the two voyageurs with disdainful shrugs of the shoulders.
But to preserve appearances he lowered the corners of his lips and glanced at the copper tea-kettle through half-closed eyes, feigning to suppress a private amusement. She was quite aware, however, that she had embarrassed him. And just as, a minute earlier, she had liked him for his lordly, masculine, philosophic superiority, so now she liked him for that youthful embarrassment.
"It's not a matter of my taste," Mary pronounced, "but of their merits. We must weigh them and consider them carefully and dispassionately." "You must do the weighing yourself," said Anne; there was still the trace of a smile at the corners of her mouth and round the half-closed eyes. "I won't run the risk of advising you wrongly."
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