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Old Jerry's sparrowlike, thinly, wistful face flamed red, and then faded a ghastly white, but no one seemed conscious at that moment of the ignominy of it all. It was hours later that they recalled it and realized that they had looked upon history in the making.
And in his attitude there was something of infantile, derisive, sparrowlike impudence as he peered back into the Judge's face something that was very like the attitude of an outraged, ruffled old reprobate of a parrot rearing himself erect. Old Jerry made no haste. It was a thing which required a nice deliberation. And so he waited waited and prolonged the moment to its last, sweetest second.
Miggleton's restaurant, on Forty-second Street, was a romantic discovery. Though it had "popular prices" plain omelet, fifteen cents it had red and green bracket lights, mission-style tables, and music played by a sparrowlike pianist and a violinist. Mr.
Once, watching with his head cocked pertly, sparrowlike, on one side, the old man's eyes went to the white-bandaged knuckles of Denny's right hand; once while he waited Old Jerry saw her lift her face saw the big, shoulder-heavy figure fold her in his arms and bend and touch the glory of her hair with his lips while she clung to him, before she turned and went slowly toward the open kitchen door.
There was something birdlike in the brilliancy of the beady little eyes; something of sparrowlike pertness in the tilt of the old man's head, perked far over to one side. "Still a-waitin', be ye?" he exclaimed peevishly. "Well, it's lucky you ain't been kept a-standin' there a whole sight longer half the night, mebby!
She shook her head again and laughed softly, as if from sheer joyous excitement. "No," she said. "No, I've been planning it for days and days oh, for more than a week!" Then she seemed to catch for the first time the dreariness of his whole attitude the dejection of his spare angular body and sparrowlike, anxious face.
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