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Her light hair, and the like-color'd lashes, so long and silky, that droop'd over her blue eyes of such uncommon size and softness her rounded shape, well set off by a little modest art of dress her smile the graceful ease of her motions, always attracted the admiration of the strangers who stopped there, and were quite a pride to her parents and friends.
There was something almost flippant in her tone. Strange that Courtland did not recognize it. But the firelight, the white gown, the pure profile, the down-drooped lashes had done for him once more what the red light had done before taken him out of his normal senses and made him see a Gila that was not really there: soft, sweet, tender, womanly.
"Dear uncle," said the lady as she rode up, "I hope you are not hurt?" She was very handsome as she sat there trying not to laugh. A lithe figure in a gray habit and a broad-brimmed hat, fair as a Swede, but with dark eyes and heavy lashes. Just then she was showing her brilliant teeth, ostensibly in delight at her dear uncle's escape, and her whole expression was animated and amused.
"Yes, sir, that's my name," replied Fetters without enthusiasm, but eyeing the colonel keenly between narrowed lashes. "I've been trying to see you for some time, about a matter," continued the colonel, "but never seemed able to catch up with you before." "Yes, I heard you were at my house, but I was asleep upstairs, and didn't know you'd be'n there till you'd gone."
"Wait for me, Genie," she said, "and we'll go down to Puss's house together. It may cheer her to see us." "But not in that dress," said Eugenie, aghast. "They will arrest you." "Oh, how I wish they would!" cried Virginia. And her eyes flashed so that Eugenie was frightened. "How I wish they would!" Miss Renault regarded her friend with something of adoration from beneath her black lashes.
He stooped and smoothed down the blankets of his bunk, for no trace of him must be seen if any other man should come during this night. He would go far away see and be seen apart from Sally Fortune. He picked up his saddle. Before he departed he leaned low above her as she must have done above him, until the dark shadow of lashes was tremulous against her cheek.
There she is indeed, the dishevelled vampire in her place right enough, stretched at full length, but looking always as if she were about to leap up; and straightway I meet the sidelong glance of her enamelled pupils, shining out of half-closed eyelids, with lashes that are still almost perfect. Oh! the terrifying person!
"But then there are others who are not sisters, but who are equally interested in your welfare," said Lady Beaumaris, looking up into his face with her wondrous eyes; but the lashes were so long, that it was impossible to decide whether the glance was an anxious one or one half of mockery. "Well, I do not think I shall ever marry," said Endymion.
"And I think it would have broken his heart if he had never found it," said Bellew, "and I couldn't let that happen, could I?" Anthea did not answer, and he saw that her eyes were very bright in the shadow of her lashes though she kept them lowered to the rose in her fingers. "Anthea!" said he, suddenly, and reached out his hand to her. But she started and drew from his touch.
And if she first came to me in the morning with a halo round her head, she seemed still to retain it when I at last watched her kneeling in the little bed perfectly motionless, with her hands placed together, and her long lashes sweeping her cheeks to repeat two verses of a hymn which Janet had taught her.
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