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Is it Maud's doing or your own?" Toby laughed again lightly and bafflingly. "I can do anything I want to do," she said. "Oh, can you?" Bunny pounced. "Then you've got to meet me sometimes away from the rest. See? Come! That's only fair." Toby made a face at him. "Suppose I don't want to?" she said. He laughed into her eyes. "Don't tell me that! When and where?" She laughed back.
Galled by such terrible insinuations, Lady Chelmer had dared to sound the girl. "I love his letters," gushed Amber, bafflingly. "He writes such cute things." "He doesn't dress very well," said Lady Chelmer, feebly fighting. "Oh, of course, he doesn't bother as much as Tolly, who looks as if he had been poured into his clothes " "Yes, the mould of fashion," quoted Lady Chelmer, vaguely.
At the side, and somewhat in the rear of the President, on a chair quite different from "the chair," discreetly gowned and of a bafflingly serene demeanor, sat Miss Bell. All eyes were upon her even some opera glasses. "She's a good-looker anyhow," was one masculine opinion. "She's a peach," was another, "Tell you the chap that gets her is well heeled!" said a third.
I'll see that you get a much better position than Culver's giving you." Over her face crept one of those mysterious transformations that made her so bafflingly fascinating to him. Behind that worldly-wise, satirical mask was she mocking at him? All she said was: "I couldn't work there. I've settled it with Mr. Tetlow. I go to work to-morrow." "To-morrow!" he cried, starting up.
But he seemed so detached, so bafflingly absorbed, that all the old ache that she had felt that day when he had advised her to marry Billy Dalton and since came suffocatingly back. The old doubt suddenly gripped her could her aunt be mistaken? Finally, it came to her, intuitively, that her whole future was hanging on this moment, and the impulse was overwhelming to forget that she was the woman.
She stood there a little shyly at first, as slender and as gracefully upright as a birch, and her dark hair caught the fire of the sinking sun with a bronze glow like that of the turkey's wing. Her eyes, over which heavy lashes drooped diffidently, were bafflingly deep, as with rich colour drowned in duskiness. "This hyar's my gal, Dorothy," announced the old man and then she disappeared.
Now Reverence, Forethought's child, putteth valour and the joy of battle into the hearts of men; yet withal there cometh upon them bafflingly the cloud of forgetfulness and maketh the mind to swerve from the straight path of action. For they though they had brands burning yet kindled not the seed of flame, but with fireless rites they made a grove on the hill of the citadel.
We left that stricken but undefeated town, dodged a few miles down the roads beside which the women tended their cows, and dropped into a place on a hill where a Moroccan regiment of many experiences was in billets. They were Mohammedans bafflingly like half a dozen of our Indian frontier types, though they spoke no accessible tongue.
"And a princess?" asked the English girl, keenly interested. "No, there is no princess." "Only you and the dragon?" "Generally only me, mademoiselle." "Whatever do you do there?" she asked curiously. His smile was bafflingly direct. "Me? I make magic, mademoiselle." "What sort of magic?" "What sort? That is a difficult question." "May I come and see it?" asked Chris eagerly, scenting a mystery.
But that grim truth had been forced on him, bitterly, bafflingly, after he had climbed the narrow streets of that town which always seemed to him a patchwork of nationalities, a polyglot mosaic of outlandish tongues, climbed up through alien-looking lanes and courts, past Moorish bazaars and Turkish lace-stores and English tobacco-shops, in final and frenzied search of the American Consul.
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