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That remark expresses the difference between them." He paused a moment. "Go on go on," I said, leaning forward, with my eyes fixed upon his keen, puckered face. He seemed pleased with my suddenly-aroused interest.. "Cats are as subtle and as difficult to understand as the most complex woman, and almost as full of intuitions.
'I don't know whether the aunts will ever let us make a mess, said Gillian; 'they don't look like it. At which Valetta's face puckered up in the way only too familiar to her friends. 'Come, don't be silly, Val. You won't have much time, you know; you will go to school, and get some friends to play with, and not want to make messes here. 'I hate friends! 'Oh, Val!
As soon as they reached the Omaha side of the river, she and Katy jumped down from the car, and immediately found themselves face to face with an anxious-looking little old lady, with white hair frizzled and banged over a puckered forehead, and a pair of watery blue eyes peering from beneath, evidently in search of somebody.
"You see I'm not afraid to give her address to my friends!" Her glance and accent so plainly included Rosedale in this privileged circle that his small eyes puckered with gratification, and a knowing smile drew up his moustache. "By Jove, you needn't be!" he declared. "You could give 'em the whole outfit and win at a canter!"
I used to think things couldn't be brighter and shine more but now they glitter like the sun, all new." "I expect so," said Peter. Then she had a little stab of remorse; for Peter had been turned out of the place of glittering things, and moved in a grey and dusty world among things no one could like. "'Tis so stupid that your work is like that," she said, with puckered forehead.
Yet she showed evidences of effort, of self-consciousness, of serious intention; now and then the arriere pensee disclosed its puckered front. This, and nothing but this, could excuse Virgilia to-day. For she was too old to giggle, far too learned, much too sober-minded.
Now, mind, no larks." "No what?" said Valmai, with puckered eyebrows. "Larks, larks! Don't you know what 'larks' are, child? Ay bet you do, with that pretty face of yours." Valmai still looked puzzled. "Well, 'high jinks, then; flirtation, then; will that suit your ladyship?" "Oh, flirtation! Very well, uncle, good-night."
Ay, you start, but you cannot dance in a net before me, as I said before; and so the king runs the frowning humour on you, and the Court vapours you the go-by; and the Prince scowls at you from under his cap; and the favourite serves you out the puckered brow and the cold shoulder; and the favourite's favourite "
For the man hesitated, it was evident; he brooded with a puckered brow and gloomy eyes; an observer might have fancied that he traced pain as well as doubt in his face. At last "There is a thing," he said slowly and with a sort of glare at her, "which, it may be, you have not reckoned. You press me now, and will stand on your terms and your conditions, your ifs and your unlesses!
Miss Bree's nose grew apprehensive; it drew itself up with a little, visible, trembling gasp, her small eyes glanced timidly from under the drawn, puckered lids, it was evidently all she could do to hold her ground. But Bel had put her there, and loyalty to Bel kept her passive. It is so much harder for some poor meek things ever to take anything, than it is forever to go without.
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