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He found Devoe with Foster and one of the coaches. The latter was lecturing them forcibly in lowered tones, and Neil hesitated to interrupt; but while he stood by undecided Devoe glanced up, his face a pucker of anxiety. Neil strode forward. "Say, Bob, get me on this half, can't you? Mills told me to see you," he begged. "Give me a chance, Bob!" Devoe frowned impatiently and shook his head.
Daphne looked dubiously at him, though he had stated the case with entire accuracy, and had suggested for her solitary meal what she most liked. There was a slight pucker in her white forehead, and she vouchsafed no answer to what she did not understand. "Addio, addio," she said earnestly. "A rivederla!" answered Giacomo, with a courtly sweep of the chamois skin.
Considering that the procedure had been in handsome time before my arrival, I thought it judicious to leave the whole business with those present, and to sit still as a spectator; and really it was very comical to observe how the bailie was driven to his wit's-end by the poor lean and yellow Frenchman, and in what a pucker of passion the pannel put himself at every new interlocutor, none of which he could understand.
The humour of this question was too much for him, and he laughed. Victoria's eyes laughed a little, but there was a pucker in her forehead. "Won't you tell me?" she demanded, "or must I get it out of him?" "I am afraid," said Austen, slowly, "that you must get it out of him if he hasn't forgotten it." "Forgotten it, dear old soul!" cried Victoria.
It it's fine so far." Lucine looked down at her essay, then across at the attentive small face that appeared quite plain when fixed in such a worried pucker. "No," she said at last, "I won't. You are not interested in the essay or in my hopes of success. You offer to help merely because you think it is your duty. I refuse to accept such grudging friendship.
And yet, although these trees showed no signs of repentance and amendment, Bert, with the quenchless hopefulness of boyhood, never quite despaired of their bringing forth an apple that he could eat without having his mouth drawn up into one tight pucker. Autumn after autumn he would watch the slowly developing fruit, trusting for the best.
Her iron-grey hair was as carefully dressed as though she were still in the twenties, moreover it was utterly untouched by any of the shams so beloved of the modern woman of advancing years. "The death of his poor wife almost seems to have unhinged him," she said, with a troubled pucker of her brows. "But but I don't wonder, I really don't. She was the sweetest girl. Poor soul.
The face itself was a seventy-year almanack, and every seam an entry upon it where public as well as private sorrow left its trace. That pucker on the forehead stood for the Mutiny, perhaps; that line of care for the Crimean winter, it may be; and that last little sheaf of wrinkles, as my fancy hoped, for the death of Gordon.
There was no smile on his face while he stood thinking, only a pucker between his dark brows, and an odd biting of his under-lip. At last he shook himself as though he found the shade chilly, and, a moment later, sauntered round to the front of the building in time to meet the others coming out. He joined the group which included Wanaha, and they talked a few minutes with the Agent and Mr.
Forgive me, my dear Here is that stupid uncle Antony of yours. A pragmatical, conceited positive. He came yesterday, in a fearful pucker, and puffed, and blowed, and stumped about our hall and parlour, while his message was carried up. My mother was dressing. These widows are as starched as the old bachelors. She would not see him in a dishabille for the world What can she mean by it?
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