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She never even raised her eyes, giving me the opportunity to contemplate mutely that adolescent, delicately masculine head, so mysteriously feminine in the power of instant seduction, so infinitely suave in its firm design, almost childlike in the freshness of detail: altogether ravishing in the inspired strength of the modelling.
I looked mutely at her. "What offended you?" "Nothing, madame." "Did you want Doctor Chantry to lame himself hobbling around in search of you, and the count to send people out in every direction?" "No, madame." "What explanation will you make to the count?" "None, madame." I raised my head. "I may go out in the woods without asking leave of Count de Chaumont."
"Yeah, tha's the way you've always spoiled that kid. Look a' them pale cheeks! Li'l ole pale face!" Howard taunted, stretching a teasing hand toward Freddy. "Mamma's boy! Reg'lar sissy, he is!" He gave Freddy a poke in the ribs. Freddy shrank back, made himself as small as possible in his chair, looked mutely at Florette. "Aw, cut it out, Howard," she begged. "Quit raggin' the kid, can't you?"
Mutely eloquent, he turned back the lapel of his coat, exposing a small shield; at which Maitland glanced casually. "Very well," he consented, bored but resigned. "Fire ahead, but make it as brief as you can; I've an engagement in" glancing at the clock "an hour, and must dress." "I'll detain you no longer than is essential.... Of course you understand how keen we are after this man, Anisty."
She gazed mutely and thoughtfully into vacancy, until at last, turning to Bias, she began more calmly: "You will see her again, man, and must tell her what the clan of Tabus bought with her talents. Take her my curse, and let her know that her friends would be my foes, and her foes should find in Tabus a benefactress!"
He had to deal with them and he dealt with them, and though he wondered mutely at their abiding sense of the present and their apparent lack of faith in the inevitable future, he descended from the heights of his own imagination and parleyed in the bald and merciless language of strictly commercial affairs. It was at the end of his visit that Thorpe asked about the sulphur plant.
Now he stood, a pitiable shadow, and begged mutely of the only tender hand he had known for understanding of this strange weakness that took his limbs and sent the heavens whirling. McElroy looked long upon him. "'Tis a shame," he said, his straight brows drawing together, "the dog is a better brute than Bois."
But five pairs of eyes were upon her and retreat was impossible; so she strove mutely to win any possible sympathy by covering, with one unsteady hand, the ear that had been pulled. No one spoke for a moment. And in that brief space the little girl divined, as she sought each face, that but one of the group before her was eager to see her punished, and that one was the teacher.
Clara looked mutely in his face, with a sort of inquiring dismay. 'You'll hear all about it when my father has told Aunt Kitty, said Louis. 'Clara, he paused, and spoke lower 'tell her I see what is right now; tell her to to pray for me, that I may not be talked into tampering with my conscience or with hers. Don't let it dwell on you or on my aunt, he added, cheerfully.
It was the state of mind of a man who was at once chagrined, amazed, suspicious, and wondering. The older man could picture Barrant thinking to himself: "This man before me how far is he involved in this?" And, watching him mutely, Austin steeled himself for a sudden outburst: "You picked up the key. You declared it was suicide. What does that mean now?"
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