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"Tell me when," and Packard held the roll in a tight-shut hand, "and I'll leave them with you." "Las' Saturday night," said Hodges, after a brief moment of reflection. Packard tossed the little roll to the bar. "There's the money. Tell Blenham I thought it was his!"
If he so much as brushed a flying tire against one of the millions of spikes clutching out, striking out from the cactus, there would be a shock, a splitting wave of air an end. Madeline thought she saw that Link's bulging cheek and jaw were gray, that his tight-shut lips were white, that the smile was gone. Then he really was human not a demon. She felt a strange sense of brotherhood.
And she was so sorry for herself, and so hurt with the sheer strength of her longing to be good and true, and noble and womanly, that as she sat in the front of the Cresslers' box on that marvellous evening, the tears ran down her cheeks again and again, and dropped upon her tight-shut, white-gloved fingers.
The winds flew home and, hurrying back into their cave, blew the door tight-shut with a bang. Then everybody waited to see what King Neptune would do. "He ordered some of his ocean train to pry the three ships off the rocks, but they could not, and he had to help them with his trident, or three-pointed spear.
That all was clear within her while she sat and waited with tight-shut lids. But the next moment she opened her eyes with a sudden realization of something more. The presence that it sought was after all not hers. It was the presence of some one other than herself. And then she understood. Her eyes had opened with a click, it seemed, but the sound, in reality, was outside herself.
He looked at the wearied, pained old face again, at the tight-shut eyes, the jerking movements of the unshaven lips, and wondered what was passing behind; what strange colloquy of the soul with itself or its Master or great personages of the Court of Heaven.
"I'll do as I please, as I please," and with the words she sank down in the chair by her desk and struck her bare knuckles again and again upon the open lid, crying out through her tears and her sobs, and from between her tight-shut teeth: "I'll do as I please, do you understand? As I please, as I please! I will be happy. I will, I will, I will!" But Laura, on her feet once more, thrust her back.
Even for a Spanish Mexican his face was dark. Swart it was, the cheeks hollow; a tiny, tight mustache with ends truculently pointed and erect helped out the belligerency of the tight-shut lips. The eyes were black as bitumen, and flashed continually under heavy brows. "Perhaps," thought Felipe, "he is a toreador from Mexico."
And, drawing forward my hand, which up to this moment I had held tight-shut behind my back, I slowly unclosed it before their astonished eyes. A bit of lace lay in my palm, a delicate bit, such as is only worn by women in full dress. "Where did you find that?" asked the major, with the first show of deep emotion I have ever observed in him.
Before his tight-shut eyes danced the face of Maisie, laughing, with parted lips. There was a great bustle and clamour about him. He grew afraid and almost called for George. 'I say, have you got your mules ready? It was the voice of the subaltern over his shoulder. 'My man's looking after them. The the fact is I've a touch of ophthalmia and can't see very well. 'By Jove! that's bad.
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