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Graeme kept the humorous wrinkles about his eyes and mouth in order with difficulty as he read this very characteristic effusion, but Margaret was the only one who saw it. Charles had kept his eyes intently on the pool below, and Miss Penny had been regarding him sympathetically. "What do you make of it?" said Charles. "It makes me sick." "He evidently needs your help," said Miss Penny.
He leaned forward to join in the conversation which had started between Lady Underhill and some friends she had discovered in the seats in front; and Jill, turning, became aware that the man on her right was looking at her intently. He was a big man with rough, wiry hair and a humorous mouth. His age appeared to be somewhere in the middle twenties.
They were face to face again, and looking on each other, as intently and awfully as at the time of the bestowal of the gift, across the boy who still lay on the ground between them, at the Phantom's feet. But there is one thing " "You speak to me of what is lying here," the phantom interposed, and pointed with its finger to the boy. "I do," returned the Chemist. "You know what I would ask.
Stooping down now, he saw where the earth had been fretted by the stone as it had been pulled out and in; then he placed his ear to the ground, and listened intently; instantly he glided from the cellar, and stood with folded arms before Captain Manly. "Well, what luck?" asked the captain. "Long Hair find pappoose."
Nelly Welch stood close to a number of Indian girls, but slightly behind them. She held the hand of little Janet Cameron. Although she appeared to share in the interest of the Indians in the dance, a close observer would have had no difficulty in perceiving that Nelly was preoccupied. She was, indeed, intently listening for the signal.
Some one showed him a handkerchief, a sodden bit of linen which had been taken from under the heap of logs. It was a woman's handkerchief, and as Eddring spread it out on his hand he noted in one corner a curious embroidered mark. At this he gazed intently, with a vague feeling that somewhere he had seen a similar mark before. It was like some rude monogram or crest.
But she and I could never get away from each other. There were no distractions. Our nerves got simply raw at least mine did." There was a pause. She lifted her brown eyes, and looked at Ellesborough intently. "I suppose my mother would have borne it. But girls nowadays can't. Not girls like me, anyway. Mother was a Christian. I don't suppose I am. I don't know what I am.
If it's mere intellectual curiosity, tell me, for we mustn't play with awful matters." "No, it isn't that," said Maskull slowly. "I'm not a student. My journey is no holiday tour." "Isn't there blood on your soul?" asked Corpang, eying him intently. The blood rose steadily to Maskull's face, but in that light it caused it to appear black. "Unfortunately there is, and not a little."
Yet, she is standing by him through thick and thin. Yes, I confess, Amelia Lethbury puzzles me. I don't understand her mental attitude." Musgrave was looking at Anne very intently as he ended. "Why, but of course," said Anne, "she realizes that it was all the fault of that that other woman; and, besides, the the entanglement has been going on only a little over eight years not ten, Rudolph."
She had ceased her song, and was gazing beyond intently. On the naked limb of a desolate, thunder-riven tree that stood apart from its lush, green-boughed neighbours, sat a lonely thrush in seeming melancholy. Every few seconds he would utter a note of song.
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