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So Israel put his twitching hands behind him, remembering Naomi and the poor people of Absalam, and when at length Reuben tendered him for the casket one half what he had paid for it, he took the money in silence and went his way. "Five hundred dollars I can give no more," Reuben had said. "Do you say five hundred five?" "Five take it or leave it."
There had been passion enough then in his voice and blazing in his eyes, emotion enough in his twitching features and restless gestures to speak of the fire below. And now, pale and cold, the man who had gripped his fingers then and held on to them like a vise, seemed to find nothing except a slight boredom in this unexpected meeting. "I shall see you again, I hope," Wingrave remarked at last.
And Sam, as the bishop come closeter and closeter, got to jerking and twitching with the excitement that he had been keeping in and yet all the time Sam knowed it was dope and works and not faith that had made him spotted that-a-way. He stops, the bishop does, about ten yards from us and looks us over.
"I'm thinkin' you are laughin' at me again, ma'am," he said as he came to the edge of the porch and stood looking up at her, grinning. "Do you think I am laughing?" she questioned, again biting her lips to keep them from twitching. "No-o. I wouldn't say that you was laughin' with your lips laughin' regular. But there's a heap of it inside of you tryin' to get out."
"What's that? Roger, eh? You mean Rathburn is here?" The old man peered at the visitor from the doorway, his lean face twitching. He stroked his gray beard in indecision. His blue eyes looked long at Rathburn, then at the girl, and lastly at the gun and belt on the table. "Well, hello, Rathburn," he said finally, advancing into the room. He held out a hand which Rathburn grasped.
There could not in the world be a stronger contrast to the bland look and courteous expression of Trevanion's handsome features, than the savage scowl of the enraged Frenchman, in whose features the strong and ill-repressed workings of passion were twitching and distorting every lineament and line; indeed no words could ever convey one half so forcibly as did that look, insult open, palpable, deep, determined insult.
"No, I suppose not," said Miss Fortune, who was energetically twitching off Ellen's shoes and stockings with her fore finger and thumb "I suppose not; you were staring up at the moon or stars, I suppose." "It all looked green and smooth," said poor Ellen "one part just like another and the first thing I knew, I was up to my ankles."
His fingers were twitching with nervousness and plucking incessantly at the front of his covercoat. "Why does he wish to know?" asked the Colonel. "I do not know." "But it is evident," cried Monsieur Fardet. "He wishes to know which is the best worth keeping for his ransom." "I think we should see this thing through together," said the Colonel.
Now that she could see his lips and their little twitching to keep back the smile, she did not mind the tone at all. She had turned away to get the milk pails, and now she gave him a sidelong look, of the kind that had been utterly wasted upon Marthy.
He gave me this good-luck charm when he left, because he didn't have anything else to give, to show he appreciated our nursing him and doing for him, and he said that he'd make it bring us good luck or die a-trying and we'd hear from him some of these days." "And you did?" The old man's face was twitching with eagerness as he asked the question.
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