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Dirzed and Dalla struggled across the room, pushing a heavy steel cabinet between them; Verkan Vall, who was holding Olirzon's submachine-gun, moved aside to allow them to drop it on edge in the open doorway, then wedged the door half-shut against it. Sarnax came over, bringing rifles, hunting pistols, and ammunition. "What's the situation, up there?" Verkan Vall asked him.
She sat on the edge of the fender, and without looking up she knew that he was watching her from under half-shut eyelids. His eyelids were so old, so tired, so very tired and old. "What did you cut it all off for?" "Oh, just for fun."
I assured him that it was of no consequence. "Perhaps," he replied, looking steadily at me through his keen, half-shut eyes, "you vill not say zat ven you regard ze 'ole. And you others, I spik to you: sometimes von loses a somzing vich is qvite near all ze time. It is ver' droll, eh? my vord, ha, ha, ha!" And he ambled off, with an aggressively fiendish laugh that chilled my blood.
So Charming Billy, tilted back in his chair and watching with half-shut eyes the intangible smoke-wreath from his cigarette, found words for his own particular air-castle which he had builded on sunny days when the Double-Crank herds grazed peacefully around him; or on stormy nights when he sat alone in the line-camp and played solitaire with the mourning wind crooning accompaniment; or on long rides alone, when the trail was plain before him and the grassland stretched away and away to a far sky-line, and the white clouds sailed sleepily over his head and about him the meadowlarks sang.
The waitress regarded Joe with half-shut eyes. "You want veal cutlets." And she wafted the information to the cook. "Well, Joe," said the practical Briggs, unable to hold in his excitement any longer, "let's get down to business." Joe leaned forward. "I'm thinking of starting up the printery, Marty." Marty flushed, choked, and could hardly speak. "I knew you would, Joe."
"Ay, O Queen," said Charmion, who stood by with downcast eyes, and I thought that there was bitter meaning in her soft tones; "may no rougher words ever affront thy ears, and no evil presage tread less closely upon its happy sense." Cleopatra placed her hands behind her head and, leaning back, looked at me with half-shut eyes. "Come, show us of thy magic, Egyptian," she said.
Richard seized some dead champagne, emptied the bottle into a tumbler, and drank it off. John footman entered to clear the table, and they were left without further interruption. "Bella! Bella!" Richard uttered in a deep sad voice, as he walked the room. She leaned on her arm, her hair crushed against a reddened cheek, her eyes half-shut and dreamy. "Bella!" he dropped beside her.
Just as the last gleam of the blood-red sky which reflected the setting sun was swallowed up in the swirling masses of ice motes, Peoria Red sank beside the track, and although I tried everything to cause him to realize his danger if he failed to follow me, he keeled helplessly over into the snow, while a glassy stare in his half-shut eyes told me that he was doomed.
Lemm, who was conducting him to the door, immediately consented, pressing his hand cordially. But when he found himself alone in the fresh, damp air, beneath the just-appearing dawn, he looked round, half-shut his eyes, bent himself together, and crept back, like a culprit, to his bed-room. He tried to make out that he was ill when, a few days later, Lavretsky's carriage came for him.
In her eyes, perhaps, the secret lay, they were violet- grey in hue, and drowsy-lidded, with long lashes that swept the delicate pale cheeks in a dark golden fringe of shadow, through which the sparkle of vision gleamed, now warningly, now tenderly, and anon, these same half-shut and deep fringed lids would open wide, letting the full brilliance of the soul behind the eyes pour forth its luminance, in flashes of such lightning-like clearness and compelling force, that it was impossible not to recognise something higher than mere woman in the dazzle of that spiritual glory.