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"There'd be such a scandal," she said. Piers broke into an involuntary laugh, and Sir Beverley's thin lips twitched in a reluctant smile. "You're a saucy little baggage!" he observed. "Well, get on! Let's hear what you've come for! Cadging money, I'll be bound." Gracie nodded in eager confirmation of this suggestion. "That's just it!" she said.
As the inquisition proceeded one of his instructors repeated an impertinent remark of the boy's, and the Principal asked him whether he thought that a courteous speech to have made a woman. Paul shrugged his shoulders slightly and his eyebrows twitched. "I don't know," he replied. "I didn't mean to be polite or impolite, either. I guess it's a sort of way I have of saying things regardless."
And not only am I a Christian, but every man who calls himself mine is also one, and will let blood-eagles be cut in his back rather than change his faith." No sound came from Eric; but his mouth was half open, as though his rage were choking him, and his face was purple and twitched with passion.
"Guess you stayed away so as not to tell all you know," said Reginald. Katie nudged him sharply, but he only twitched away, laughing because Patricia looked angry. The little silver bell tinkled, and they turned to enter the cottage. "Good-by," they called to Patricia, who stood at the gate.
But at the moment of speaking and questioning Marie, Guillaume experienced sudden embarrassment, while his heart beat violently at seeing her beside him, so young and adorable with her bare arms. "Our wedding-day is drawing near," he ended by saying. And then as she turned somewhat pale, perhaps unconsciously, he himself suddenly felt cold. Had not her lips twitched as if with pain?
In a way I'm sure it wasn't his fault. I'm quite sure his eyelids twitched when he started out. I think the men who drove the car the other day had twitching eyelids, too. You should ask " The detective heard muted noises, as it a man shouted into a transmitter somewhere.
"Ah! but I knew her when she was just a child; so simple that I loved to startle her. But now but now those two ladies have done wonders with her. She has all the splendour of Mary Maxwell, and all the softness of Margaret." "Yes," said the other meditatively; "the two ladies have done it or, the grace of God." Mary looked at him sideways and her lips twitched a little.
Jim Blaisdell suspects there's somethin' strange, but he doesn't know. I'll shore never tell anyone else but you. An' you must promise to keep my secret now an' after I am gone." "I promise," said Jean. "Wal, an' now to get it out," began his father, breathing hard. His face twitched and his hands clenched. "The sheepman heah I have to reckon with is Lee Jorth, a lifelong enemy of mine.
"Something of the sort," she replied in cold stubbornness. The full knowledge of her power swept over him; the helplessness of his position filled him with sudden fury. He sprang to his feet and hurled his cigar through the open window. His thick fingers twitched to choke the insolent smile from her face. "You traitor! You blackmailer!" She arose leisurely.
"If you had not a tender brother to look after you, your young limbs might be cramped with rheumatism, and twitched with palsy, before any one would think of bringing you a cloak." "Wait a bit!" say I, recovering my good-humor with an effort, reflecting that it is no use to be vexed that they mean nothing and that, lastly, I have brought it on myself! "Wait for what?" asks Barbara, laughing.
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