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It was over; she had seen him, she had smiled, but alongside his delight lurked another feeling, and, by a bitter freak, not her face came up before him but the face of that lady in the restaurant short, round, and powdered, with black-circled eyes. What right had we to scorn them? Had they mothers, footmen, porters, maids?
Oh! he had only run at her with a hoe, because she was troublesome; she did not mind it, and Norman must not and she clung to him as if to keep him back, while he pursued his researches in the tool-house, where, nearly concealed by a great bushel-basket, lurked Master Thomas, crouching down, with a volume of Gil Bias in his hand. "You here, Tom! What have you hidden yourself here for?
No abuse of that put the drop of savage blood in motion, till the Spaniards began to regard their women with indiscriminate desire. That was the first outrage for which a Spanish life had to atone. But neither treachery nor cruelty lurked beneath their flowery ways; it was sullen despair which broke their gayety, brief spasms of wrath followed by melancholy.
"When are you going away?" he asked. "To-morrow morning earlier than I like to think of. I have to be in New York by to-morrow night." She flashed at him a look of approbation for his self-control, and then, by a swift transition which he had often remarked, her expression changed to one of amusement, although a seriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes. Mrs.
Haldane did not hide his name from her, for he resolved to spend the night in the street before dropping a name which now seemed to turn people from him as if contagion lurked in it, and he was relieved to find that, as yet, it had to her no disgraceful associations.
But now the sun was out, every fence and farm-yard rope was a string of diamond drops. There was one to every blade of grass; they lurked among the wild roses; larks, drunken with song, shook them from their wings. The whole earth shone so gloriously with them that for a time Tommy ceased to care whether he was admired. We can pay nature no higher compliment. But when they came to the Slugs!
Most of the men were away at work, some in Monopoly or Economy, whither they went in the early morning in their tin Lizzies to a little store or a country bank, or a dusty law office; some in the fields of the fertile valley; and others off behind the thick willow fringe where lurked the home industries of tanning and canning and knitting, with a plush mill higher up the slope behind a group of alders and beeches, its ugly stone chimneys picturesque against the mountain, but doing its best to spoil the little stream at its feet with all colors of the rainbow, at intervals dyeing its bright waters.
While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing what can disturb our peace?" And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?
And the woman's face on the wall smiled behind them the smile of a witch, mysterious, derisive, aloof, yet touched with that same magic with which Piers had learned even in his infancy to charm away the evil spirit that lurked in his grandfather's soul. "Going away to-morrow, are you?" said Ina Rose, in her cool young voice. "I hope you'll enjoy it." "Thanks!" said Piers. "No doubt I shall."
Don't cry like that you mustn't...." She obeyed instinctively; and stood there, like a chidden child, battling with her sobs. "Where's the thing? What's happened?" he asked, seeming to disregard her effort at control. "There over there. Look ... the mugger!" "Mugger?" He sighted it. "Well, I'm the thieving brute!" Humour lurked in his voice more tonic than sympathy; yet in a sense, more upsetting.
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