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Her hair was beautiful, a bright chestnut brown with a good deal of red, its brilliant gloss broken into innumerable high-lights by the ripple of its waviness; and she had one other positive beauty, the clearly penciled line of her long, dark eyebrows, which ran up a trifle at the outer ends with a little quirk, giving an indescribable air of alertness and vivacity to her expression.
You decide at last to cast off your ignorance and be of the elect to know what chit means and if possible become a chitter. Very disappointed are you when told that chit is simply Asian for memorandum, in popular phrase, an "I. O. U.," hurriedly penciled and given in lieu of cash. Its purpose?
And Blaine, looking curiously around, happened to be turned the wrong way when a uniformed porter came up to Bangs, touched his cap and said: "Pardon, messieurs, but will you come with me?" And be presented a card upon which was engraved the name of Senator Walsen. Under this was hastily penciled in a feminine hand: "We are waiting. Please follow the porter." That was all.
He penciled a name upon the bottom of each and then handed them to Patsy, saying: "Will you kindly present these, with my compliments, to the Misses Stanton, and to their aunt, when they return this evening? Thank you!" And then, before they could recover from their astonishment, he turned abruptly and fled to his room. The girls stared at one another a moment and then began laughing.
His features were so entirely destitute of expression that I could not help saying to myself helplessly, as if in the clutches of a night-mare "they are only penciled in: no final touches as yet!"
The moonlight was not sufficiently vivid, however, for him to read the penciled scrawl. He felt in his pocket for a match. Because his mind was operating clear and sure, his thoughts flashed at once to his enemies in their cabins along the creek. He did not want them to know he had found the body. His first instinct was to work in the dark, to achieve his ends by stealth and cunning!
The brown and yellow scales and nut-shells are as abundant and as delicately penciled and tinted as the shells along the sea-shore; while the beautiful red and purple seed-wings mingled with them would lead one to fancy that innumerable butterflies had there met their fate.
I took out my note, which contained a somewhat rudely penciled plan of the gate and the streets leading to it, just as I had been directed by the lady's-maid, and in addition the words "Eleven o'clock, at the little door." Two long hours to wait! Nevertheless I should have set out immediately, for I could not stay still, had not the painter, who had brought me hither, rushed up.
His suspicions fully confirmed, Banneker drove away. It was now Ives's move, he remarked to himself, smiling. Or perhaps Marrineal's. He would wait. Within a few days he had his opportunity. Returning to his office after luncheon, he found a penciled note from Ives on his desk, notifying him that Miss Raleigh had called him on the 'phone.
The broad white forehead the raven hair, sparsely sprinkled with silver the round temples the delicately penciled brow, encircling, like a sable arch, the large and almond-formed eye the full calm lip, and the chiseled chin and nostril all these were as perfect now as when last before the reader.
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