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A chance phrase that he had heard at the theatre, a whispered sneer that had reached his ears one night as he waited at the stage-door, had set loose a train of horrible thoughts. He remembered it as if it had been the lash of a hunting-crop across his face. His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his under-lip.
As soon as they are nearly marriageable, an incision is made in the under-lip, and a bone passed through it, which is exchanged from time to time for a thicker one, that the opening may be continually widened.
Yesterday my husband gained his case and divorced me! she closes her eyes and draws in her under-lip to stop its quivering. I want to take her in my arms, but I am afraid to. 'I did not ask you any more than if you were free! 'No, but I am afraid you don't quite take in the meaning. I did not divorce my husband, he divorced me, he got a decree nisi; do you understand now?
But Elsley had vanished into a chamber bestrewn with plaids, pipes, hob-nail boots, fishing-tackle, mathematical books, scraps of ore, and the wild confusion of a gownsman's den. "The party is taken ill with a poem," said Wynd. Naylor stuck out his heavy under-lip and glanced sidelong at his friend. "With something worse, Ned. That man's eye and voice had something uncanny in them.
"No disappointment," returned Elleney; her eyes were steady, though that red under-lip of hers would quiver; "no disappointment, a'nt, I hope. He'll be sure to pick out one of the girls, won't he?" "I b'lieve so," answered Mrs. McNally, propping herself against the counter. "He's afther tellin' me his father 'ud be the death of him if " "Sure that's all right," interrupted her niece.
Yet perhaps Katherine's beauty had never been more rare and sweet than as she sat there, leaning a little forward in the eagerness of her watchfulness. The dark circles about her eyes made them look very large and sombre. The corners of her mouth turned down and her under-lip quivered now and then, giving her expression a childlike piteousness of appeal.
"Brooks," he began but his voice rattled like a dried pea in a pod, and he had to moisten his under-lip with his tongue before he could proceed "Brooks, are you in any way a superstitious kind o' boy?" "That depends, sir," said I, diplomatically. "After all these years, too," he groaned, "an' agen' all likelihood o' natur'. But you saw him hey? You heard what he said, an' that cussed song, too?
The lamps were extinguished, and in her hand was the glory of the Serpent Jewel, no other light save it in the vaulted chamber. So the old miser perked his chin and brows, and cried wondering, 'I know it, this Jewel, O my mistress. She turned to the Vizier, and said, lifting the red gloom of the Jewel on him, 'And thou? Aswarak ate his under-lip.
The priest drew down his under-lip like a snarling dog, revealing the discolored stumps. But he made no other reply. Estenega lit a match, and, kneeling beside the priest, held it to his stubbled beard. As the flame licked the flesh the man uttered a yell like a kicked brute. Estenega sprang to his feet with an oath. "I can't do it!" he exclaimed, with bitter disgust.
Austria was once full of Protestants; but the hide-bound Flemish-Spanish Kaiser-element presiding over it, obstinately, for two centuries, kept saying, "No; we, with our dull obstinate Cimburgis under-lip and lazy eyes, with our ponderous Austrian depth of Habituality and indolence of Intellect, we prefer steady Darkness to uncertain new Light!" and all men may see where Austria now is.
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