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He squared his shoulders, determined once more to put it to the touch to win or lose it all. He found her at the bow-window, staring up at the moon. As I remarked, this room was dark, and she did not instantly recognize him. "I am moon-gazing," she said. "Let me sigh for it with you. Perhaps together we may bring it down." There was something very pleasing in the quality of his tone.
"You're a funny girl," he laughed. "Why am I funny?" Her tone was a little wistful. "Why, moon-gazing instead of dancing, and everything." "But I like to dance too," emphasized Missy, as if to defend herself against a charge. "I'll take you up on that. Come straight in and dance the next dance with me!" Missy obeyed. And then she knew that she had met the Dancer of the World.
"The ultimatum has been reached, at last, in the possessor of a pretty face and a broken fiddle! and dreams for the restoration of the race are to end in a broken-down hovel by the sea, in darning the Cradlebow's socks, and dressing the clams for dinner, while the bucolic George Olver and the versatile Harvey, and all the rest of the awkward, moon-gazing crew, take turns in sitting on the door-step, and dilating on the weather!
Anthea repeated, and walked some dozen paces, or so, before she answered, "no, of course not." "Then none of your fortune, nothing she told you has ever come true?" Once more Anthea hesitated, this time so long that Bellew turned from his moon-gazing to look at her. "I mean," he went on, "has none of it ever come true, about this Man with the Tiger-Mark, for instance?"
"Really," said Kenwick, with a hint of annoyance in his manner, to conceal which he continued talking volubly. "Now, I should have thought you would have been the one to go moon-gazing. I should not have associated your sister with the pale and melancholy orb." "You are very penetrating, Mr. Kenwick. But I don't think you would find the moon especially pale or melancholy this evening.
"It is half-past eleven didn't you know it? and all the lights are out." "Good Heaven!" Edith cried, starting up aghast; "half-past eleven! What will Trixy say? Really, moon-gazing must be absorbing work. I had no idea it was after ten."
Likely he's snug at Blairs'. I do wonder if Thyra suspicions that he goes after Damaris. I've never dared to hint it to her. She'd be as liable to fly at me, tooth and claw, as not." "Well, she picks out a precious queer night for moon-gazing," said Carl, who was a jolly soul and took life as he found it. "It's bitter cold there'll be a hard frost.
The knot was hopeless now, double-tied and pulled to smooth compactness. The Portier jerked at it. "No Fraulein stays here alone. It is not respectable. And what saw I last night, after she entered and you stood moon-gazing up the stair after her! A man in the gateway!" The Portier was angry.
Lessingham to take leave of her. "The Grotta Azzurra to-morrow," he said gaily. "Perhaps you won't care to go again? My grave sister will make a very proper chaperon." "Let us discuss that when to-morrow comes. Please to limit your moon-gazing to five minutes." "At the utmost."
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