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Who she was I did not know; but I soon learned, for one of the two young women in front of me said a low something to which the other gave back a swift retort, woefully audible: "<i>His wife</i>? That little dowdy thing in brown? Oh, what a pity! Such an ordinary woman!" My cheeks grew hot in sympathy with the painful red that swept to the roots of the thin gray hair under the tip-tilted bonnet.
Three at that moment came crowding into the gap a saucy-faced girl with a tip-tilted nose, whom he supposed to be Columbine, the soubrette; a lean, active youngster, who must be the lackey Harlequin; and another rather loutish youth who might be a zany or an apothecary. All this he took in at a comprehensive glance that consumed no more time than it had taken him to say good-morning.
"And you can go on eating and eating," Francey added greedily, "and it doesn't seem to matter." "Egg and cress sandwiches " "Ham pie " "Sardines " "Russian salad mayonnaise " "And something jolly in a bottle." They laughed at one another. But after that the quiet returned again. Francey sat with her hands clasped behind her head and her chair tip-tilted against the wall.
She had the divinest straight nose, tip-tilted the faintest, most alluring trifle, and a dimple cleft her chin, "the deadliest maelstrom in the world!" He thrilled through and through. He had been only vaguely conscious of the dimple in the night. It was not until he saw her by daylight that he really knew it was there. The village hummed with life before them.
Her tip-tilted nose was red and her eyes were wet when at last she laid it out upon her bed and knelt with her cheek against it. "Gee! If only I were pretty!" she sighed, "I almost believe he likes me." Tom Slater laboriously propelled himself up the hill to the bungalow that evening, and seated himself on the topmost step near where Eliza was rocking.
There was such genuine admiration in the tender voice, that Judy looked at Anne for the first time with interest at the plain, straight figure in the unfashionable blue gingham, at the freckled face, with its tip-tilted nose, and at the fair hair hanging in two neat braids far below the little girl's waist. "Do you like to live here, Anne?" she asked, suddenly.
Oblivious to everything else she was critically scanning her own small reflection great, tip-tilted eyes, violet in the shadow, and then cheeks and pointed chin until, even in spite of her preoccupation, she became aware of the hungry tremulousness of the mouth of that reflected image until the hoarse shriek of an engine's whistle leaped across the valley and brought her up sharp, her breath going in one long, quavering gasp between wide lips.
With his tip-tilted nose in the air, his carefully curled head on one side, the deputy for Arras was observing Andre-Louis attentively.
There was the coral tie at her throat, as she had planned, and perched on her curls was the jauntiest little hat imaginable that served only to keep the sun off the top of her head and was no protection whatever to her tip-tilted freckled nose. Mary and Elinor wore jimmies bought in the village, and Billie wore no hat at all. "No, we aren't, Nancy dear. We're just teasing," said Billie.
The principal stores of the small town, the one hotel and the post-office were connected by a covered walk which formed a sort of arcade, so that the men lounging against doorways or tip-tilted in chairs seemed in a sort of gallery from which they surveyed the Saturday-night crowd which paraded the street. Jane folded up the cloth which covered her basket and displayed her wares.
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