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It was well done on his lordship's part, but the lady did not seem convinced by it. Her face looked whiter, and her eyes had an alarmed, half-suspicious expression. "We must begin again," said Mr. Jenkins. And he began again. Mr. Caryll listened and watched, and he began to enjoy himself exceedingly.
Her figure was graceful beyond the imagination of a poet her eyes beamed with tenderness, and her eye-brows were black as ebony. Her golden ringlets, interwoven by the fingers of Love, played upon shoulders whiter than snow.
Martin, in his concern, pulled off the blue spectacles. She caught them from him with one hand, sat down on the nearest chair, and hid her face with the other. Mr. Carlyle, scarcely understanding the scuffle, came forward. "Are you ill, Madame Vine?" She was putting her spectacles under her veil, her face whiter than ever. "Pray do not interrupt your conversation to pay attention to me!
Whitey arose a shade whiter, and now blasphemously bent upon vital injuries.
The wood-strawberry is seldom larger than a horse-bean, of a brilliant red, and the flesh whiter than that of any cultivated species; the flavour is remarkably clear and full a pleasant subacid, with more of the peculiar strawberry perfume in the taste than any other. They are very wholesome, indeed considered valuable medicinally.
He came out into the yard and looked round. The sun was high, the ground had dried after the rain; the wind from the ravines brought the song of birds and a damp, cheerful smell; the fields had become green during the night. The sky looked as if it had been freshened up, and the cottage seemed whiter. 'A nice day, he murmured, gaining courage, and went indoors to dress.
The sick man's face had gone even whiter. "I'll trade yo' beans," offered the Texan. "Mine's black!" gasped the other. "I know," The Kid whispered in reply. "Trade with me!" "It means that yuh give yore life for mine," was the agonized answer. "I can't let yuh do that." "Believe me or not, but I have a plan," urged the Texan in a low tone. "And it might work. Hurry."
Please!" Involuntarily the young girl's eyes left his face, and Rod, weakly following her gaze, saw that a blanket had been spread over a huddled heap in the middle of the floor. He shuddered, and feeling the sudden tremor in his hand Minnetaki turned to him quickly, her cheeks whiter than before, but her eyes shining like stars. "It is Woonga," she whispered. In her voice was a thrilling tremble.
Still there was no change, save that the white face on the pillow grew whiter, with a tinge of gray on it now. The clock on the mantel seemed to tick louder and louder, and cry out hoarsely: "Time is fleeing fast! It will soon be too late for Gerelda to clear Hubert Varrick and save him from a felon's death!" Jessie Bain paced the floor up and down, in agony.
Sometimes, returning through the Craddock Woods, Hadria would pass through the churchyard on her way home, after her walk, and there she would come upon Dodge patiently at work upon some new grave, the sound of his pickaxe breaking the autumn silence, ominously. His head was more bent than of yore, and his hair was whiter.