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Just that one brief exclamation, and then suddenly Jane's lower lip began to work convulsively, and two tears squeezed themselves out of her little eyes, and her whole face puckered up like a baby's. Sara caught her by the arm and shook her. "Don't cry!" she said vehemently. "You haven't time! We've got to save her we've got to get her back before any one knows. Do you understand?
For a few seconds he busied himself with a cigar, removing the band with utmost deliberation, biting the end off, applying the match, his brows puckered slightly. "It's very unwise of you to meet Monohan like that," he uttered finally. "Oh, I see," she flashed. "Do you suggest that I met him purposely by appointment? Even if I did " "That's for you to say, Stella," he interrupted gravely.
"It made me want to go and hear you preach," pursued the draper; "for no one could say but it was plucky and we all like pluck, sir," he added, with a laugh that puckered his face, showed the whitest of teeth, and swept every sign of trouble from the half-globe of his radiant countenance. "Then you know sum and substance of what I can do for you, Mr.
For a little while a faint stirring beneath the surface puckered it slightly here and there, but presently even that died away and the thing was perfectly still. Then Harringay according to Harringay's account lit his pipe and sat down and stared at the enamelled canvas, and tried to make out clearly what had happened. Then he walked round behind it, to see if the back of it was at all remarkable.
She saw, moreover, his mass of brown hair bunching disgracefully about his ears, his clear eyes lit now with a hard, cold light, his forehead puckered in a mighty scowl, the ring upon the third finger of the left hand. "Oh, they won't kill him! Surely they won't kill him!"
It was seamed with lines of cruelty; the coarse lips were hideously puckered about the pipe stem; his eyes drooped in bestial satisfaction as he sucked at it. While he was getting the light, thus creating a noise in his own ears that would drown a slighter noise from me, I took the opportunity to arrange my position somewhat, and now felt satisfied.
"You don't think he could have known something about the dagger all along?" ventured Craig. Norton puckered his eyes. "He never said anything," he replied. "If he had asked me to drop other things for that, why, of course, I would have done so. We can't afford to lose him as a contributor to the exploration fund. Confound it I'm afraid I've put my foot in it this time."
"Useful," said Arline, and snapped her jaws together as if she feared to let another word loose. "Larger than a sewing machine, and useful." Val puckered her brows over the puzzle. "And all the neighbors gave it. Do you know, I've been thinking all sorts of nasty things about our poor neighbors, because they refused to sell Manley any hay.
Nora's puckered red lips emitted a surprised whistle. "This is news," averred Jessica. "But Miriam could never care for him. He is so much older." "How old do you imagine Mr. Southard to be, Jessica?" asked Anne slyly. "Oh, I don't know. He must be " Jessica paused reflectively. Then a sudden look of astonishment passed over her face. "Why how funny! He isn't really old.
"I spoke first. It's my first chance," Dan cried. "It's my job! I'm going " "Wait a minute!" O'Neil silenced the two, who were glaring at each other angrily. "Don't let's have any fighting; there will be enough of that later." "I spoke first," Dan repeated, stubbornly. "I had my mouth puckered to spit, that's why," the fat man explained. "A fellow has to spit "
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