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He looked at her inquiringly, and her eyes laughed lazily into his as she stretched her arms. "That's all," she concluded. "I've told you everything, which I've never done before to any one. And it's your turn now." "Not much of a turn, Saxon. I've never cared for girls that is, not enough to want to marry 'em. I always liked men better fellows like Billy Murphy.
And, following the light cascading ripples of the harp, when her low contralto lifted in one of the "old songs," she often turned inquiringly to see if the listener liked the music, and her brilliant, dark eyes would rest on his with an appeal that blinded his entranced soul.
Paul Schlieben was very dissatisfied with Wolfgang. "If only I knew where he's always wandering about. I suppose he's at home at night eh?" An involuntary sound from his wife had interrupted him, now he looked at her inquiringly. But she did not change countenance in the slightest, she only gave an affirmative nod. So the husband relied upon his wife.
The move in a few minutes brought them so close to the big ship that the girls could look into the fresh sea-blown faces of the passengers who crowded the rails on that side of the liner. It seemed as if the sloop must crash into the side of the larger boat. Harriet glanced inquiringly at Captain Billy, who nodded encouragingly, from which she understood that there was no cause for alarm.
I saw the affair from the hill, through my telescope," said young d'Avranche, smiling. "My little daughter must have better manners," responded the lady, looking down at her child reprovingly yet lovingly. "Or the Bailly must eh, Madame?" replied d'Avranche, and, stooping, he offered his hand to the child. Glancing up inquiringly at her mother, she took it. He held hers in a clasp of good nature.
But you will help me to conquer it, papa?" she added, half inquiringly, half in assertion. "I fully intend to do all in my power to that end," he said in a tender tone; "but, my beloved child, the hardest part of the battle must inevitably be your own. You must watch and pray against that, your besetting sin, never allowing yourself to be a moment off your guard."
You have wasted half an hour of this glorious morning over them already!" she exclaimed. "Wasted?" rejoined Ridge Norris, inquiringly, and looking up with a smile. "I thought you were too fond of flowers to speak of time spent in showing them off to best advantage as 'wasted."
It was a breakneck path around the face of a precipice forty or fifty feet high, and nothing to hang on to but some iron railings. I got along, slowly, safely, and uncomfortably, and finally reached the middle. My hopes began to rise a little, but they were quickly blighted; for there I met a hog a long-nosed, bristly fellow, that held up his snout and worked his nostrils at me inquiringly.
He looks up inquiringly at his sister his breath on the door has also turned to hoar frost. From the village, lying in a shroud of mist, come the measured sounds of the thresher's flail, now in sudden volleys, now slowly and with a dragging cadence, now in sharp, crackling bursts, and now again with a dull and hollow beat.
The sight brought us abruptly to a stand-still on the threshold Smellie and I looking at each other inquiringly, as though each would ask the other what could be the meaning of it all. Then with a quick stride my companion passed in before me, glanced round the room, and uttered a low exclamation of horror.
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