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Their chamber was dimly lit by the hole above; and the cubs, directly they were able to crawl, feebly climbed to a recess behind the shaft, where they blinked at the clouds that sailed beneath the dome of June, and at the stars that peeped out when night drew on, or watched the limpid water as, flowing past the end of the pipe below, it bore along a twirling leaf or rolled a pebble down the river-bed.
He expected her to cry and scream, but she bit her lips, blinked her brown eyes rapidly to keep the tears back, and stood like a statue until he dropped his stick. Then choking back the sobs in her throat, she faced him with the curt demand, "Give me a receipt, please." "A a what?" "A receipt. Gail says we should never settle a bill without getting a receipt." "What do you want of a receipt?"
His eyes blinked as if a blow had been aimed at him nearly. Then he recovered his poise. "How mad?" "As mad as a March hare." "You can attend to it," he said, looking the clergyman full in the face. "I don't want her to suffer. There will be some expense. Can you get her into a comfortable place for for a thousand dollars?" "I will try.
He spoke quietly, in the tone of a superior granting terms. The thick lips opposite him were puckering a little, and the eyes behind the great spectacles blinked mistily. "I must have time," repeated the little man "time to think of it." The count's face clouded a shade. "We depend on you," he said. The tone had changed subtly. It was less assertive.
All those brown-faced fanatics remained staring upward, silent in a kind of thunder-struck amazement. The major, peering down through the trap, swore luridly. Leclair muttered something to himself, with wrinkled brow. "Captain Alden's" eyes blinked strangely, through the holes of the mask. The others stared in frank astonishment.
Bill blinked. Either there was some mistake or trouble had turned his brain. He pushed himself together with a supreme effort. 'A lady said I would pay her fare? 'Yes. 'But but why? demanded Bill, feebly. The conductor seemed unwilling to go into first causes. 'Search me! he replied. 'Pay her fare! 'Told me to collect it off the gentleman in the grey suit in the smoking-car.
He retained the same implacable resentment toward Gower, and he found himself wishing to set Gower's daughter apart and outside the consequences of that ancient feud. And that, he knew, was trying to reconcile the irreconcilable. It couldn't be done. "Was the Arrow holed in the crash?" Betty stood staring at him. She blinked. Her fingers began again that nervous plucking at the blanket.
He dreamt he was married and it made such a profound impression upon him that he went and married somebody. He slept through his wooing and he slept through his wedding and I gave him the hay and the cart and Dick Whittington. I don't think he entirely appreciated Dick either, for he blinked some. All of which primarily engendered the music-machine inspiration.
Her eyelids blinked with marvellous quickness, and therefore, perhaps, she did not notice her mother's chalky pallor, trembling hands, and despairing expression of eyes. Apparently noticing nothing she spoke in a loud voice and joyously: "You have an ocean of various silks left after so many things which we made in company. Let us search among them. Shall we go? They are in your chamber.
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