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Behind that moon-face with the troubled eyes, what conflict was in progress between unquestioning morality and unquestioning belief in Gyp, between fears for her and wishes for her happiness, between the loyal retainer's habit of accepting and the old nurse's feeling of being in charge? She said faintly: "Oh dear! He's a nice gentleman, too!"
Offer some other inducement, O'mie," Marjie replied laughingly. "Oh, well, Tillhurst'll be there, and one or two of the new folks, all eligible." "What makes you call me 'Star-face'? That's what Jean Pahusca used to call me." She shivered. "Oh, it fits you; but if you object, I can make it, 'Moon-face, or 'Sun-up." "Or 'Skylight, or 'Big Dipper'; so you can keep to the blue firmament.
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She drove one man nearly wild with the pretty little treachery, and the other man abandoned her and came West to forget the trickery. Moon-face was that man. We rounded and limped over a low spur of hill, and came out upon a field of aching, snowy lime rolled in sheets, twisted into knots, riven with rents, and diamonds, and stars, stretching for more than half a mile in every direction.
I knew what I was about, for I was aware of a little weakness of his, and of a little private sinning of which he was regularly and inveterately guilty. "No," he said, when I placed the end of the rope in his hand. "No, you don't mean it." And his mouth opened wide and he grinned all over his damnable moon-face. "I I kind of thought, somehow, you didn't like me," he explained.
"There we are," he said genially; "all paid up to date." "This?" touching the note. "A gift for all your patience and kindness." "You go 'way?" the smile leaving her pretty moon-face. "Yes." "You like?" with a gesture which indicated the parlor and its contents. "Be boss? Half an' half?" He shook his head soberly. She picked up the money and jingled it in her hand. "Goo'-by!" softly.
Not more than a third of a mile away a point of yellow flame flared up in the night. "Give me the revolver, Peter." Peter gave it to her without a word. She went to Uppy, and at the touch of her foot he was out of his sleeping-bag, his moon-face staring at her. She pointed back to the fire. Her face was dead white. The revolver was pointed straight at Uppy's heart.
Where are your night-gowns and night-caps? and your petticoats and stockings? and your hair-pins and bear's grease, and all the rest of it?" "My luggage is left at the railway station," said Magdalen. Mrs. Wragge's moon-face brightened dimly. The ineradicable female instinct of Curiosity tried to sparkle in her faded blue eyes flickered piteously and died out.
Obeying the order meant twenty-four hour's delay in making sure of his wages, perhaps a week, spring weather being uncertain. He didn't "see no blow." Besides, if there was one coming, it wasn't his sloop or his stone. When he reached the foot of the bowsprit Moon-face sent this answer over the water: "Let her blow and be d ! This sloop's chartered to deliver this stone.
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear.
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