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O self! self! self! are we eternally masking in a domino that reveals your hideous old face when we could be most positive we had escaped you? Eternally! the desolating answer knelled. Nevertheless the poor, the starving, the overtaxed in labour, they have a right to the cry of Now! now!
"It was a mighty house," Koogah said, masking his unbelief with wonder. "And many trees went into the making of such a house," Opee-Kwan added, taking the cue. "That is nothing." Nam-Bok shrugged his shoulders in belittling fashion. "As our houses are to that house, so that house was to the houses I was yet to see." "And they are not big men?" "Nay; mere men like you and me," Nam-Bok answered.
In the east a wall of vapor, dull and lusterless, had taken body since the dawn, masking the skies and shutting down upon the sea like some vast curtain; and out of the heart of this a bitter and vicious wind played like a sword. To the north, Shoeburyness loomed vaguely, like a low-drifted bank of cloud.
"I'm hanged if you look anxious!" muttered Greg, studying his chum's face keenly. "I fancy I've got to display a good deal of skill in masking my feelings," smiled Dick wearily. "Oh, I don't know," returned Cadet Holmes hopefully. "It may not turn out to be so bad." "Then a permanent silence hasn't been imposed?" "Not yet," replied Greg.
It was thus a very disgusted Princess who made her early exit from the palace between a double line of bowing flunkeys, masking her anger behind an affectation of ultra-Royal dignity. Still, Pauline was now a grande dame indeed, who could really afford to patronise even Napoleon's wife. Her Court was more splendid than that of Josephine.
He motioned to them to drive off and, as they did so, pulled off his masking handkerchief and dived into a narrow street leading up to a thoroughfare. Craig gazed into our living room cautiously. "I can't see anything wrong," he said to me as I stood just beside him. "Miss Dodge," he added, "will you and the rest excuse me if I ask you to wait just a moment longer?"
The unexpected sight of Blanco brought a start and an immediate masking of his face, but in the first momentary glimpse the Andalusian caught a haggard distress which frightened him. "I didn't know you had come," said Benton quietly. "How long have you been here?" "I should say a half-hour, Señor," replied Manuel, casually rolling a cigarette. "Why didn't you rouse me?
With an internal groan, the outward aspect of which she had vast difficulty in masking, she said: 'You are right he has no head. Easily cajoled! Old Tom sat down in a chair, and laughed outright. Lady Jocelyn, in pity for the poor lady, who always amused her, thought it time to put an end to the scene. 'I hope your brother will come to us in about a week, she said.
That he may have seen me sometime to-day, walking upon the street, is quite possible, but certainly of no consequence. Your bracelet has become unfastened." She bent down to clasp the topaz crescent, and Olga laid her hand on the girl's shoulder. "Something pains you very much, and your face has not yet learned the great feminine art of masking misery in smiles, and burying it in dimples.
I only saw in your incredulous smile that I had succeeded in masking my poverty even from you, and in making you suppose that my economy was avarice. But it is needless for me to give you any further explanation just now. Let it suffice you to know that what I say is strictly, honestly true. I possess nothing, nothing!"
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