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"What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!" "Ay, mistress so I did. But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!"
"O, it looks like a little baked apple, all wrinkled up; but it's right sweet. Ugh!" added Horace, making a wry face; "you better look out when they're green: they pucker your mouth up a good deal worse'n choke-cherries." "What's a papaw?" "A papaw? Well, it's a curious thing, not much account. The pigs eat it. It tastes like a custard, right soft and mellow. Come, let's go to work."
I had the same "gone" feeling in the pit of the stomach that you have when you drop fast in an elevator. The skin on my face felt tight, and I remember that I wanted to pucker my nose and pull my upper lip down over my teeth. We got clean up to their wire before they spotted us.
At other times, when attempting to speak, my lips would pucker up, firmly set together, and I would be unable to separate them, until my breath was exhausted.
I was sure that Pierre was laughing under his wrinkled red skin, and I was childish enough to be ready to rate him if he showed so much as a pucker of an eye. For I had always refused to let my men adopt the slightest particular of the savage dress.
Down the stairs skipped Polly, glad to get away from the too eager children. The Doctor received them delightedly. Polly watched him with thoughtful eyes. "Do you think they look like me?" she ventured at last. "Very much," he answered, smiling at the anxious pucker between Polly's eyebrows. "What is the trouble?" The pink in her cheeks deepened to crimson.
"Nonsense, dearest," said Cardo cheerfully, though the little pucker between his eyes seemed to speak of the same anxiety and fear. "Isn't the separation which we must bear enough to account for all sorts of fears and depressing thoughts?
"Well! that is carrying honor to an extreme. I am afraid I should not be able to suppress my curiosity to that extent. Is he afraid of the old lady returning unexpectedly and catching him?" I could not echo her laugh; I could not even smile; I could only pucker up my brows as if angry.
And you won't look me in the eyes as you are doing now, saucy girl, with your chin pushed forward and your mouth all in a pucker who's to know whether you are going to pout or giggle? and your pert green eyes wide open, as if to say "Who's this old thickhead staring at me so hard?" No, Bettina, you will drop them instead; you will blush all over your neck and cheeks, and hang your round head.
Coyne had slyly hid himself, but emerged when she came down to the carriage, and she shook him warmly by the hand, and he bowed at the door incessantly, with his face all in a pucker, till the cavalcade dashed away. LADY BASSETT timed her next visit so that she found Dr. Suaby at home.
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