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So Ester sat and toyed with hers, and came to the very unwarrantable conclusion that what her uncle offered for her entertainment it must be proper for her to take!
What, makes you look so sober? Have I done something naughty that you are going to scold me for?" she concluded, playfully, as she bent forward and looked archly into his eyes. His face grew luminous instantly as he met her gaze, while he captured her small hand and toyed with the rosy, taper fingers. "Do I look sober?" and a brilliant smile chased the gloom from lip and brow.
They're winged dollars like all their mates, and most of them, I'm sorry to say, have already flown to places where they'd long been expected." Mrs. Milbrey's sensation was no longer to be repressed. She had toyed with the situation sufficiently. Her husband was now skilfully dissecting the devilled thighs of an immature chicken.
He placed his finger tips together and smiled at the seven crooks, who had gathered together, staring breathlessly at this man who toyed with death. Gertie ran from the room. For a moment they looked at each other, undecided, then one by one, they stepped away from Kennedy toward the door. The leader was the last to go. He had scarcely taken a step. "Stop!" ordered Kennedy. The crook did so.
He shot her a furtive, sidelong glance from under his heavy, beetling brows, and now, indeed, he observed a change ripple over the composure of her face like a sudden breeze across a sheet of water. The deep lace collar at her throat rose and fell, and her fingers toyed nervously with a ribbon of her grey bodice.
John Blunt leant back in his comfortable chair and toyed with the key of the safe, while he tried to realize his new position. He, John Blunt, was junior partner in the great London firm of Macnaughton, Macnaughton, Macnaughton, Macnaughton & Macnaughton!
Murray regarded Estelle reminded Edna of the account given by a traveller of the playful mood of a lion, who, having devoured one gazelle, kept his paw on another, and, amid occasional growls, teased and toyed with his victim. As the orphan sat bending over her work listening to the conversation, she asked herself scornfully: "What hallucination has seized me?
"And his fair niece, she takes kindly to the town and its gaieties?" "Very kindly," dryly. "A beautiful girl, our young Australian!" The elder man toyed with his glass, stirred the contents and sipped. "By the way, didn't I see John Steele in their box at the opera the other night?" "It is possible," shortly. "Rising man, that!" observed the other lightly. "Combination of brains and force!
You have made me cold." "Cold? You are a flame from the crown of gold on your head to your shoes of gold." "Now that you are become a success, monsieur, what will you do? To you is given the heart's desire." She toyed with the quivering jelly, merely tasting it. It too was golden in hue, and golden lights danced in the heart of it. "A great success? I am dreaming.
I toyed with the little light-ray cylinder in my hand quite casually through the brief interview, and I saw he was thoroughly impressed, for he seemed unable to take his eyes from it. "Where are your men just now?" I asked. He raised his hands deprecatingly and poured out a flood of words to Miela when my question was translated to him.
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