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She had carried down her little scissors the night before, and had snipped it, and here it was an omen for her own rose-colored future! Starry-eyed she lay back among her pillows. "Oh, Polly-Ann, Polly-Ann," she said tensely, to the small cat on the cushions, "if I should ever wake up and find that it wasn't true " Polly-Ann stared at her with mystical green orbs.
The plain prose of which is, that night by night above the horizon rise the bright orbs, and roll on their path obedient to the Sovereign will; 'because He is strong in might not one' is lacking. Astronomers have taught us, what the prophet did not know, that even in the apparently serene spaces there are collisions and catastrophes, and that stars may dwindle and dim, and finally go out.
The whole night long, he would lift his splendor-blasted orbs to the moon and stars; he turned his face eastward, at sunrise, as duly as a Perisan idolater; he made a pilgrimage to Rome, to witness the magnificent illumination of St.
The little red silk riding-mask, that was wont to look down from the wall, null and inexpressive, with no suggestion in its vacant, sightless orbs of the brightness of vanished eyes, with no faint trace of the fair face that it had once sheltered, save as memory might fill the blank contour, began to blaze humbly as he thrust it among the burning papers on the hearth.
He looked her full in the eye, his own blue orbs alight with resolution. She returned his gaze, fierce as a tigress. But at last she spread out her deprecating hands. "Señor," she said, "I am but a woman. I am in the Señor Secretary's hands. I am even in his hand. What can he wish?" "In no unfair way, Señora, I beg you to understand, in no improper way are you in our hands.
In person he was taller than Wallingford, and had the easy, confident manner of one who had seen the world, as we say. His face was called handsome; but it was not a manly face manly in that best sense which includes character and thought. The chin and mouth were feeble, and the forehead narrow, throwing the small orbs close together.
One night, while thus employed, I was startled by a mocking voice which said, "'All this fury is needless. Thou hast only to wish for me, and I come. "It was profoundly dark. I could see nothing but a pair of red orbs, glowing like flaming carbuncles. "'Thou wouldst be free, continued the voice. 'Thou shalt be so. Arise, and follow me.
But when now she spoke with him these charms became forgettable as he discovered, or fancied he did, in her self-oblivious eyes, a depth of thought and feeling not in the orbs alone but also in the brows and lids, and between upper and under lashes as he glimpsed them in profile while she turned to Mandeville.
And now, gently lifting up those two bright orbs which had already begun to make an impression on poor Jones, she discharged a volley of small charms at once from her whole countenance in a smile.
At this, Strozzi sprang up, and, staring at Barbesieur, with eyes that glowed like the orbs of a wild animal "Sir," exclaimed he, "you are an insolent intruder!" "I know it," cried Barbesieur "and what next?" The marquis gazed in bewilderment at the threatening face of his self-invited guest, and then, slowly turning around, prepared to leave the room. Barbesieur rose and followed him.
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