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Patience and reason fled from me, when they fared forth; Sleep failed me and despair o'ercame me, like a blight. They left me, and with them departed all my joy; Tranquillity and peace with them have taken flight. They made mine eyes run down with tears of love laid waste; My lids for lack of them brim over day and night.
"Don't go away again, Harry, please don't, my son!" he pleaded, strangling the tears, trying to regain his self-control tears had often of late moistened Rutter's lids. "Your mother can't stand it another year, and I'm breaking up half blind. You won't go, will you?" "No not right away, father we'll talk of that later." He was still in the dark as to how it had come about.
At the same time I shall be looking for leaks and investigating time-keeping methods" he was looking straight at Bince and he could not help but note the slight narrowing of the other's lids "wage-paying systems and planning on efficiency producers."
When moon is down, when fire is out, when curtains are drawn, when lids are closed, is she not there, the little Beautiful One, though invisible, present and smiling still? Friend, the Unseen Ones are round about us. Does it not seem as if the time were drawing near when it shall be given to men to behold them?"
Under this attack, the man of the world collapsed into an awkward overgrown boy, ill at ease, with red lids to his eyes and premature yellow stains on two fingers of his left hand. He shifted his feet and said defensively: "Aw, she's a woman. A fellow can't knock her down. I wouldn't let a man do it."
But the clouds fell speedily and very human feelings peered from between those lids as she murmured, half petulantly: "Why do you look at me so? Oh, I remember, I remember!" And a flush, of which they little thought her weakened heart capable, spread over her features, hiding the scar and shaming her white lips.
There was no mistaking that incredible expanse of face, seemingly as big as the body of an ordinary man, those bleary gray eyes under the shaggy eyebrows, their great baggy lower lids, the heavy cheeks and the vast sweep of russet beard. It was Pescennius Niger himself!
"I spoke of neither of the women," said the Major, sternly; "I allude to Sir Willmott Burrell he sleeps not." "By my troth I am glad of it," exclaimed the Cavalier; "right glad am I that slumber seals not the craven's lids. Would that I were by his side, with my good steel, and where there could be no interruption; the sun should never rise upon his bridal morn."
Men went wild with enthusiasm as the tall figure rode slowly through the crowd toward the palace. Von der Tann, grim and martial, found his lids damp with the moisture of a great happiness.
But gradually, as I gazed, the look of expectation which I perceived hovering about the wistful mouth and half-open lids attracted me, and I bent above her with a more personal interest, asking myself if she were quite dead, and whether or not immediate medical assistance would be of any avail.
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