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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I beg pardon " began Mortimer; then stared in blank amazement, cutting short his apology. The victim of his assault was Mr. Crane. The latter's close-lidded eyes had rounded open perceptibly in a look of surprise. "Mr. Mortimer!" he exclaimed, "You here? May I ask who's running the bank?"
Belle was determined that he should open the subject himself, and in the awkward pause that ensued she busied herself basting up a lining for her frock. At last, clearing his throat, Lowe began: "Belle, I've got something else to say to you." She looked at him squarely, the direct gaze of her clear, dark eyes in striking contrast with his close-lidded, shifting glance.
Because we're friends. Because he wouldn't think it fair " "Fair to who?" "To me, of course." "Why shouldn't it be fair to you?" Her eyes, close-lidded, were fixed upon the floor. As long as she looked at him Spinks held himself well in hand; but the sudden withdrawing of those dangerous weapons threw him off his guard. "Because he knows I Oh hang it all, that's what I swore I wouldn't say."
It had been her wont to come, punctual to some holy, foreappointed hour, with firm hands folded, with a back that, even in bowing, preserved its pride; with meek eyes, close-lidded; with breathing hushed for the calm passage of her prayer; herself marshalling the procession of her dedicated thoughts, virgins all, veiled even before their God.
This hunting-lodge of the King would have been grimly ugly, were it not for its rocky throne, high above the river bed, and its background of glistening white mountains. The huge pile looked like a sleeping dragon with its hundreds of window-eyes close-lidded, and I could not imagine it an amusing place for a house party.
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