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Black lashes long and up-curling swept the unexplainable curve of her cheek, at the present time apparently masking eyes too rare for the vision of man. The nose, thin and ever so slightly bridged, was an epitome of aristocracy. The mouth, just beginning to quiver with reanimation, was curved in the curl of flowers in bud, and sweet and kind as the animate soul of a rose.

Men of heroic nerve decline similarly to let explosions shake them, though earth be shaken. Dragged into the monstrous grotesque of the scene at the Gardens, Livia and Henrietta went through the ordeal, masking any signs that they were stripped for a flagellation.

He recovered in a minute, however, and, riding to his late companion, said in a low voice, "Sir knight, is this the way you serve an old comrade, masking under a black shield? I know you now better than you deem. I will not reveal your disguise, but by my troth I vow I will never try buffets with you again, and, if I keep my wits, sword of yours shall never come near my headpiece."

Not even the hoofprints of horses could be found on the softer ground a short distance back from the stream. There are tricks in masking one's trail that the Kentucky mountaineers had learned from generations of feuds and attacks by revenue agents, which Grace Harlowe knew nothing of.

But if it is for ever, my average will be right honourable if I live to be a hundred." Alice noticed how boyish the clean-cut features looked when he smiled that way. The other smile the masking, cynical smile made him ten years older. The face was once more grave, and he raised the bottle from the rock.

Dark red had suited her! Suited the look on her face when she said: "You're not to go!" Odd, indeed, if she had not some devil in her, with that parentage! Next day they had summoned him from the studio to see a peculiar phenomenon Johnny Dromore, very well groomed, talking to Sylvia with unnatural suavity, and carefully masking the goggle in his eyes! Mrs. Lennan ride? Ah! Too busy, of course.

Sackcloth is the raiment of sorrow, and as such it was interdicted by the Persian monarch. We still follow the insane course, minimizing, despising, masking, denying suffering. Society sometimes attempts this. The affluent entrench themselves within belts of beauty and fashion, excluding the sights and sounds of a suffering world.

Conceding, perforce, that Denmark was not to be left hostile in the rear, although he indicates that this object might be attained by masking her power with a detachment, while the main effort was immediately directed against Revel, his suggestions to Parker for reducing Denmark speedily are dominated by the same conception.

I must go just for half an hour. 'Why do you want to see her? Lydia asked, masking her curiosity with a half-absent tone. 'Oh, nothing to explain. I feel I want to talk, that's all. From time to time in her more difficult moments Lydia had felt a little hurt that the course of circumstances made no difference in Thyrza's friendship for Totty.

Tell him to send a picked squad quietly across and find out what he can. I hope to God there'll come another order for us all to cross at its heels!" Stafford, riding on, presently found himself in a strip of bog and thicket and tall trees masking a narrow, sluggish piece of water. The brigade behind him was hidden, the regiment in front not yet visible.