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For a moment he gazed from the window with her, for politeness sake, and then went out again. In a few minutes she rang. 'Hasn't Anna come in? asked Mrs. Harnham. 'No m'm. 'She ought to be in by this time. I meant her to go for ten minutes only. 'Shall I go and look for her, m'm? said the house-maid alertly. 'No. It is not necessary: she is a good girl and will come soon.
I tell 'em er not to come," she faltered, poising as if for flight. "Ma'am!" exclaimed the startled Timothy. One glance into Timothy's amazed face was enough. Pollyanna laughed and threw back her shoulders alertly. "Nothing. Never mind! I didn't mean it, of course, Timothy. Quick see! They're almost here," she panted. And Pollyanna hurried forward, quite herself once more. She knew them at once.
The men from the Halfmoon D were due back and inside of an hour they rode off, leaving only Harris's men and the five card-players in the place. Harris walked over to the table and the Three Bar men shifted positions, slouching sidewise at the bar or leaning with their backs to it, alertly watching this unexpected move as the foreman spoke to the albino.
Period of Louis XV coquettishly feminine; Period of Louis XVI lightly, alertly masculine. One soon sees why, for Louis XIV furniture does suggest masculinity by its weight and size. Over its surface, masses of decoration immobile as stone carving, are evenly dispersed, and contribute a grandiose air to all this furniture.
Let us see what I do remember." Pettifer took a chair and sat for a few moments with his forehead wrinkled in a frown. Was he really trying to remember? His wife asked herself that question as she watched him. Or had he something to tell them which he meant to let fall in his own cautiously careless way? Mrs. Pettifer listened alertly.
There were a dozen exclamations; a man in a cutaway coat left his place near the desk and advanced alertly; the stout person made a sort of lightning-like spring toward the short, dark soldier, and then the lobby closed around the little group and blotted them from the sight of Mr. In and Mr. Out. But to Mr. In and Mr.
They entered the room while he was entertaining the baby with a whistled selection from his repertoire of flute music, and he broke off short as they regarded him from the doorway. The Jewess looked up alertly as they entered. They bowed to Lucas with a manner of servility in which there was an ironic suggestion, while their eyes examined him shrewdly.
We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and strutting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them.
The brown eyes had been closed for a while in slumber, but presently they opened alertly; a fly had bitten his nose, and the owner of the nose got up to catch the fly. This done, he looked around him.
These greetings partook of the nature of pleasantries and the only note of frank hostility came from the throats of the hounds. They bristled and growled with an instinct which was softened by no artificial code of hypocrisy. Still, so long as the halt lasted, the two parties kept their eyes alertly fixed on each other.
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