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"After his lordship's it might be something of a down-come," said John Splendid, half to me and half to the woman. She caught his meaning, though he spoke in the English; and in our own tongue, laughing toothlessly, she said
She left the room, and he followed her; in the passage they disturbed an old hag who did the casual cooking of the household, though she was so decrepit as to be hardly able to understand human speech. She got up and hobbled behind them, mumbling toothlessly. On the verandah a hammock of sail-cloth, belonging to Cornelius, swayed lightly to the touch of Jim's elbow. It was empty.
Braile took his pipe out and cackled toothlessly. "I'm almost afraid to think, Abel. Something awful, though. You say Sally told you?" "Yes." "I should think Sally would know what he meant, if anybody." He looked at Abel, and Sally's husband joined him in safe derision. "Tell you anything else?" "Well, no, not just in so many words.
Possibly she was from wicked, fashionable, reckless New York, and being in mourning had come here with but few possessions to recuperate. "Wall, how are ye likin'?" asked Cap'n Lem, when they had deposited the trunk. He set his arms akimbo and smiled toothlessly upon the visitor. "I said 'twas Miss Lacey, didn't I?" he added to Mrs. Lem, with a delighted wink.
The baby, looking over the maternal shoulder, encountered the stern eyes staring at her. She stared gravely too. Then with a bounce and a gurgle she beamed upon him from out the retirement of her flapping sun-bonnet; she smiled radiantly, and finally laughed outright, and waved her hands and again bounced beguilingly, and thus toothlessly coquetting, disappeared within the door.
"Can I speak with you a minute, spaceman?" Roger turned from the automatic food dispenser and stared at a wizened little man standing beside him, grinning up at him toothlessly. "What do you want?" asked Roger. "Just talk. Let's sit down at this table, eh?" said the little man, taking the cadet by the arm. "Gotta little deal I think you might be interested in."
He rose to the bait of one dark-eyed miss who had her hair done in two braids crossed and tied close to her head with red-white-and-blue ribbon, and who smiled alluringly and somewhat toothlessly and remarked that she liked to go 'way, 'way up till it most turned over, and that it didn't scare her a bit.
Brigit thought that she did not greatly care for the Chevreuil d'Or. Then eight o'clock struck and she rose and rang for hot water. The "maid," who was incidentally a grandmother, wore a blue skirt and a red blouse and smiled cheerfully and toothlessly. "Yes, yes, mademoiselle, de l'eau chaude. I have brought it! Je connais ma clientèle, moi."
The tired sea had gone to sleep, and was breathing deeply in its dreams, but to Mary it was not the same happy sea that she had looked out upon from her window at Rose Winter's, and at the Villa Mirasole. The little mumbling, baby mouths of the breathing waves bit toothlessly upon the rocks.
Madame Gugou beamed with delight. "Tiens! C'est joli, a! Gugou!" she called. "We must kill a chicken and cut some haricots and a lettuce. They shall dine well in Vallcy these two." Gugou grinned toothlessly from the doorway of the shed where he was stabling Clarissa, and then hobbled his way up to the garden.
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