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She placed one fair arm behind his head, pillowing him, and with a peacock fan which had lain amid the cushions fanned his face. The strange scene became wholly unreal to him; he thought himself some dying barbaric chief. "Rest there," murmured the sweet voice. The great eyes, unveiled now by the black lashes, were two twin lakes of fairest amber.
"So am I," said Maxton, rolling himself in a blanket, and pillowing his head on a saddle, without more ado. In a few minutes the camp was as silent as it had previously been noisy.
"But would you be a nobler character if you were poor?" Isabel asked, pillowing her round chin on her palm and examining Lawrence apparently in a spirit of scientific enquiry. "Because that is Jimmy's theory, and merely to say that you're noble now doesn't meet the case. Do you do good with your money?" "No fear! I encourage trade. I've never touched second rate stuff in my life."
All night she watched the changing shores, silvery green or dark with slumberous shadow, and followed the moon in its tranquil journey through the sky. When it set, she drew her cloak about her, and, pillowing her head upon her arm, exchanged the waking for a sleeping dream. A thick mist encompassed her when she awoke.
He turned his head toward her, pillowing his cheek on the gritty clay. "No. But where are you, Val? Can't you come to me?" "Sorry. Un unavoidably detained," he gasped. "Don't try any crawling or the rest may come down on us." "Val! What's the matter? Are you hurt?" Her questions cut sharply through the darkness. "Banged up a little.
Stephen flung himself down again contentedly in the grasses at her feet, pillowing his chin in his palms and looking up at her, adoringly. "You are so beautiful, dear lady. I love to look at you. Will you tilt that hat a little more over the left eye-brow? Yes so some day I shall paint you." His tone and manner were all simplicity. "When you are a great artist," said Beatrice, indulgently.
They flit to and fro, with something like sorrow upon their dark brows. In their midst lies a manly form, but his cheek, how deathly! His eyes are wild with the fitful fire of fever. One friend stands before him nay, I should say, kneels; for see, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breast. "O, the high, holy-looking brow! Why should death mark it, and he so young?
Maulfry, waking first, looked at her as she lay pillowing her cheek on her arm, with her wild hair spread behind her like a dark cloud. Maulfry, I say, looked at her. "You are a little beauty, my dear," she thought to herself. "Countess or bastard, you are a little beauty. And there is countess in your blood somewhere, I'll take an oath. Hands and feet, neck and head, tell the story.
Then taking Theos by the arm he turned away from the terrace, and re-entered his apartment, where he flung himself full length on his couch, pillowing his handsome head against a fold of glossy leopard skin which formed a most becoming background for the soft, dark oval beauty of his features.
Presently, lying in her berth, dreamily staring out at the moonlight through the open porthole, her lovely arms pillowing her head, the Countess became aware that the yacht was moving. So they were getting out to sea again, she told herself. A little while ago she would have been delighted, as if at an escape, because, as she had said, Noumea was hateful, and no place for pleasure-seekers.
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