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They keep their chocolate and sandwiches for folks whose trolley do'esn't fly the wire." "What wire?" she asked, her forehead knitted to a question. "Oh, the wire that's over the tracks of respectability and vested interests and special privilege." She had been looking at him, but now her gaze went to the fire with that slow tilt of the chin he liked.
None were afraid, and all instinctively felt her friendship. Her bargain was quickly made. Soon each child had a large share not only of cake, but also of tiny flags and paper cherry blossoms which had adorned the owner's booth. Zura emptied a small knitted purse of "rins" and "sens." She had told me earlier that she had sold a picture to a postcard man. The cake dealer got it all.
The Countess read on, unnoticing, with compressed lips and knitted brows those brows that looked so black on the fair skin, under the powdered hair. "My husband! ah, I knew it, my André ... the common fate of the loyal!" A sigh lifted the fair young bosom, but she showed no other sign of weakness.
"A what do you say it is, Mistress Moggie?" asked Father Mendez. "A braw laddie; a big bouncing boy, ye would ca' him in English," answered Moggie, with a slight touch of scorn in her tone. "A boy!" exclaimed the priest and the lieutenant almost at the same moment. The priest took several rapid turns up and down the courtyard with compressed lips and knitted brow, but said nothing.
Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression, and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange, in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted.
Mary put her embroidery away, made up the fire, and sat down on a stool at her mother's feet. "Darling, how many socks have you knitted since we came here? Enough to stock a shop?" "On the contrary. I have been very idle," laughed Catharine, putting her knitting away. "How long is it? Four months?" she sighed. "It has done you good? yes, it has!" Mary looked at her closely.
By all the saints, thou hast tempted us too far! What ho, there, guards! Am I indeed so old and witless," he muttered, sinking back again upon the couch from which he had started in the moment of excitement, "as so soon to forget a knightly nobleness, which in former days would have knitted my very soul to his? Bah! 'tis this fell disease that spoke, not Edward.
Presently he came to a dead halt, and with knitted brows and set teeth, hissed, "I'll go and drown myself." Full of this intention he broke into a run, but, not being acquainted with the place, found it necessary to ask his way to the port.
She was still standing motionless, though her brows were knitted in deep thought, and her mouth had assumed the rather cross expression which such rich, rare lips always can, and which only makes their smiling the more lovely when she saw in the mirror another reflection beside her own. Her husband had come softly behind her, and put his arms round her waist.
The latter pointed at Nekhludoff by a look, and Petrov knitted his brows and went out through a door at the back. "Who will remember it? Why do they all seem so confused? Why did the sergeant-major make a sign to him?" Nekhludoff thought. The sergeant-major, again addressing Nekhludoff, said: "You cannot meet here; please step across to the office."
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