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He turned to Beatrix. "Otto? What about him, Miss Dane?" "Only good. Miss Gannion was speaking to me about him, last night." "You know Miss Gannion?" "Who doesn't?" He laughed silently from between his close-shut teeth. "That can be interpreted in two senses." "Not if you know Miss Gannion. She is of the salt of the earth." "I am glad to hear you say so.
We have but to run back over the lines and go our way. They will not see whence the shot came. Wait here at least till the dawn. What manner of fakir art thou, to shiver at a little watching? 'Oho! thought Kim, behind close-shut eyes. 'Once again it is Mahbub. Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to Sahibs! Or maybe Mahbub has been selling other news.
He kindled her thus, and the close-shut but expanded and knew the fretting desire to breathe out the secret within it, and be appreciated in turn. The young flower of her sex burned to speak, to deliver an opinion. She was unaccustomed to yield a fascinated ear.
"That is the one who is in custody," he observed at last. "The other, that is Franklin, has gone scot-free thus far, I hear." No answer from her close-shut lips. He waited. Still no answer. "If you do not know either of these gentlemen," he insinuated at last, "how did you come to leave the rings at their office?" "I knew their names I inquired my way It is all a dream now.
I was carried up the steps into a close-shut hall. A candle flaring in the socket, scarcely dispersed the darkness, though it displayed to me the ferocious countenance of the wretch who held me. "He mounted a wide staircase. Large figures painted on the walls seemed to start on me, and glaring eyes to meet me at every turn.
A certain gravity of demeanour had early taken possession of him, and while his close-shut lips showed his ability to cling tenaciously to a resolution, his bright eyes sparkled with the glow of enthusiasm.
The rising sun, darting an inquisitive beam 'twixt a leafy opening, fell upon Beltane's wide, slow-heaving breast; crept upwards to his chin, his cheek, and finally strove to peep beneath his slumberous, close-shut lids; whereat Beltane stirred, yawned, threw wide and stretched his mighty arms, and thereafter, blinking drowsily, sat up, his golden hair be-tousled, and stared sleepily about him.
The growing silence worried him; he wished that he could gain her confidence, not in order to gratify curiosity, but to enable him to be of real service. One afternoon he called at the hospital reinforced with a box of roses. The flowers had an immediate effect upon Joan. She buried her face in them and closed her eyes, and then Cameron saw large, slow tears escaping the close-shut lids.
A little later they entered the sharp-cut shadows beneath the trees and were swallowed in the darkness. With fixed eyes and close-shut lips, as doggedly, as inexorably as though he were a Nemesis hunting his enemy down, Hiram followed their footsteps across the stretch of moonlit open. Then, by and by, he also was in the shadow of the pines. Here, not a sound broke the midnight hush.
Its little, innocent-looking, three-toed foot, or three and a half toed how unreptilian it looks through my pocket glass! A baby's hand is not more so. Its throbbing throat, its close-shut mouth, its jet-black eyes with a glint of gold above them only a close view of these satisfies one. Here is another remarkable transformation among the small wild folk.
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