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Oh, blessed experiment! for the value of one quarter dollar I got rid of this dishonest girl for ever; rather than pay me, she never entered the house again. About a month after this, I was busy making an apple-pie in the kitchen. A cadaverous-looking woman, very long-faced and witch-like, popped her ill-looking visage into the door, and drawled through her nose "Do you want to buy a rooster?"
It was a droll scene: the sly blacksmith in a profound fox's sleep the declaimer pretending to be asleep, and wide awake all the time and the thin, long-faced American, too wise to betray his colleagues, but evidently annoyed beyond measure at the trick they had played him. I once went to hear a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute, delivered by a very eccentric person, who styled himself the Hon.
Russian literature is full of it. My oldest brother, who is a great stickler for everything Russian, is always speaking about it." "Always referring to her papa and her brother," I thought. "What a sweet child." Presently she and her long-faced chum were hailed by a group of young men and women, and, excusing themselves to us, they ran over to join them.
Read now what we will do!" The secretary read. It had a certain largeness and goodliness, as go rewards for adventure, even for great adventure, what the sovereigns would do. The room thought it should answer. The King spoke, "We can promise no more nor other than this. It contents you, Master Christopherus?" The long-faced, high-nosed, gray-eyed man answered, "No, my lord King."
Then the first two notes were struck by Terry's two little thumbs. How strange and audacious they sounded in the silence of the lonely room! Terry glanced over her shoulder at the pictures, and saw a long-faced man in a pointed collar looking at her severely. "Oh, how can I?" she exclaimed, dropping her hands into her lap. "How can I if he goes on like that?"
You, with your cool head, ought to have known better than to start a young hot-brained fellow like me, just let loose from college, upon such a wild adventure. I'm afraid that if Jones had once got me fairly into his clutches, he would have made daylight shine through me." "Ha! ha! No doubt of it. But come, don't begin to look long-faced.
Be this as it may, the two Misses Neverbend walked on, each with a stubborn long-faced Frenchman at her side, looking altogether not ill pleased at this instance of the excellence of French manners.
You remember he said that the days had quite gone by for a 'long-faced Christianity. I thought it a very sensible remark." "Winifred has not troubled us with a very long face lately," remarked her father, glancing at her. "It has lengthened somewhat since we began our discussion, but I think it has been unusually cheerful for a week or so." Winifred colored under these personal observations.
Phyl glanced at these pictures as she followed Miss Pinckney, who opened doors shewing the dining-room, a room rather heavily furnished, hung with portraits of long-faced gentlemen and ladies of old time, and then the drawing-room.
From behind the big desk rose the figure of a man about five and forty, sandy-haired, long-faced and sallow, with a pair of the coldest, fishiest eyes eyes set too close together that ever looked out of a flat and ugly face.
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