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Then on a impulse he pushed ajar the swinging door and looked back inside. Fay was sitting as he'd left him, apparently lost in listless brooding. On his shoulder Pooh-Bah was rapidly crossing and uncrossing its little metal arms, tearing the memo to smaller and smaller shreds.
Another momentary glance went through her eyes, as it were, and was withdrawn, before he gave a short, grave 'yes. Hazel went back to her musings without another word, and only the least bit of a triumphant curl about the corners of her mouth. 'I wonder how it would feel? she said, crossing and uncrossing her hands. 'What? said Primrose.
"It is one, fortunately, that isn't marketable," she said, "and it's the only quality you've mentioned that's worth anything." "A woman's valuation," said Mr. Crewe. "If it made you forget your own affairs, it would be priceless." "Look here, Victoria," cried Mr. Crewe, uncrossing his knees, "joking's all very well, but I haven't time for it to-day. And I'm in a serious mood.
After waiting ten minutes longer, and crossing and uncrossing their legs repeatedly, the audience stamped and whistled very much in the manner of an impatient crowd at a real theatre. Mrs. At eight and a quarter o'clock, the orchestra, consisting of two flutes and a violin, issued from behind the curtain, and seated itself before some music stands ranged against the wall. Mrs.
It was some moments before Abbe Miollens divined whither he was tending. As soon as he had grasped a ray of light, his face contracted, and uncrossing his limbs, he cried: "Ah, what a misfortune!
But 'tis given to flutes to make a noticeable sound, whether tunable or false." "Terrible shy he looks, poor chap!" The three men turned and contemplated Young Zeb Minards, who sat on their left and fidgeted, crossing and uncrossing his legs. "How be feelin', my son?" "Very whitely, father; very whitely, an' yet very redly." Elias Sweetland, moved by sympathy, handed across a peppermint drop.
He rose when they were introduced, and, uncrossing his fat little thighs, asked what he could do for them. Felix propounded the story of the arrest, so far as might be, in words of one syllable, avoiding the sentimental aspect of the question, and finding it hard to be on the side of disorder, as any modern writer might. There was something, however, about Mr. Pogram that reassured him.
But her spirit seemed broken altogether. "There is one more matter," said Robin presently, uncrossing one splashed leg from over the other. "I had not thought to speak of it; but I think it best now to do so. It concerns myself a little; and, therefore, if I may flatter myself, it concerns my friends, too."
"Hel-lo!" he said, finally, uncrossing a knee grown slightly corpulent and his rather small eyes crinkling to slits. "Hel-lo!" She was arch and laughed back. "A bad penny, you see." He swung a chair toward her without rising. "Turned up, didn't you? Good."
"And you should have seen Paw come down off from there," commented his spouse. "I didn't know he could run that fast, his time of life." "If they let me have my gun," said Paw, uncrossing one leg from the other, "I could mighty soon get me a pair of elk horns for myself. But what can a fellow do when they tie his gun up, time he comes in the park?"
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