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"I was shocked to know he had killed a man, and Hugh looked up with his big mother-eyes, while the captain said coolly: "'Yes; a sad business, and about a woman, of course. It is dreadful to have that kind of a disposition, boys, that makes you dangerous to some one who wants what you want. He was very young too. A pity! a pity!
He was much annoyed at himself, but the picture of the lusty outlaws lying in the dust with the life stricken out of them had been too much. "All right. I'll be hustlin' along," Dud said, and went. Bob leaned against the wall. June looked at him with wise, understanding mother-eyes. "It was kinda awful, wasn't it? Gave me a turn when I saw them lying there. Must have been worse for you.
A faint line about the mouth, a fairy tracing at the corners of the eyes, a mere vague touch just at the nostrils and the thing is done. Even Emma McChesney's eyes those mother-eyes which make the lynx seem a mole had failed to note the subtle change. Then, suddenly, one night, the lines leaped out at her.
For a week he did no more than speak to me a word when business made it needful, and then the monotonous days went on as before in the gray, dismal home, out of which the light of life's gladness departed when those dear mother-eyes were closed in death. While, throughout that sad summer, my Jack was slowly coming back to health, even the vast events of the war now under way moved me but little.
She's such a dear and she's so rich and she's travelled around so much." "Why, bless the heart of her, she's nothing but a child!" "Mother!" Beryl's voice rang impatiently. "We'll just never grow up in your eyes! Why, Robin's twenty. Well, I should think anyone'd like Tom Granger." "Oh, my dear!" And Mother Moira, reading the girl's heart with her wise mother-eyes, gave a tiny sigh.
I had a chance afterwards of doing him a good turn, which he was most generous in acknowledging; and as he belonged to the court, I had the offer of a lieutenant's commission. The Scotch are in favour." A deep cloud had settled on the face of the young man. The lady looked at him for a moment with keenest mother-eyes, suppressed a deep sigh, and betook herself again to her work.
"So I asked him to have some with us." Her voice sounded very gay; the little flush had not died out of her cheeks. "I am very pleased you have come," said Christine's mother. She shook hands with Jimmy, and smiled at him with her mother-eyes. Jimmy wished they would not be so kind to him. It made him feel a thousand times more miserable.
I had a chance afterwards of doing him a good turn, which he was most generous in acknowledging; and as he belonged to the court, I had the offer of a lieutenant's commission. The Scotch are in favour." A deep cloud had settled on the face of the young man. The lady looked at him for a moment with keenest mother-eyes, suppressed a deep sigh, and betook herself again to her work.
"Yes," said Verty, "and I saw the lips smile when I spoke." They stood thus hand in hand the tender mother-eyes upon them: then he turned and went away, looking back tenderly to the last. Had the dim canvas smiled upon them, as they stood there hand in hand a blessing on them from the far other world?
I had, and I meant to make it up with him, but my father's effort as a peacemaker did not render my course the more easy. Still, with the mother-eyes on me, I kept my temper. "I was about to say thou hast done all a man can do," said I. "Then let us shake hands honestly," he replied, "and let bygones be bygones." I saw both my parents glance at me.
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