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Never before had she seemed so remote, so colorless and high so intangible and unreal. And yet he had never admired her more than when she sat there by him in the rickety spring wagon, chiming no more with his mood and with her environment than the Matterhorn chimes with a peasant's cabbage garden.
From the wine list she designated an appropriate and desirable brand. He looked at her with some admiration. She was beaming with the innocent excitement that woman derives from the exercise of her gregariousness. She was talking to him about a hundred things with animation and delight. And as the meal progressed her cheeks, colorless from a life indoors, took on a delicate flush.
When Etta rose and came toward him her face was colorless. "Let me see this room," she said. He opened the door and followed her into the apartment, which has already been described. Here he told further somewhat bald details of the work he had attempted to do. It is to be feared that he made neither an interesting nor a romantic story of it.
Meanwhile the object of his hostility had relinquished his hold of the horse, and appeared kneeling on the ground, supporting the form of a woman, dressed in a tasteful white dress, with dark, disordered hair lying around her colorless face. Mr. Reynolds immediately paused, and regarded this group for some moments with an air of singular sagacity and archness.
And the Spirit waits to charge with electric certainty the teaching of God's truth to the man who in meekness adjusts himself to it. Cold and colorless glows the transparent prism in the shadow. But let the sun shine through it, and lo! it is alive with all the colors of glory and beauty.
He encountered a tourist in clerical garb a thin-chested man with a colorless face, but with sad, benevolent eyes sitting in the plaza near the sinister old cuartel. He sat down and asked abruptly in a voice strangely high-pitched for his own: "Is a man ever justified in leaving his wife?"
A five-year-old girl points her tiny finger at Louise and twitters, "She wants a man." In the Place is Véron, going about aimlessly, like a dead leaf Véron, who revolves, when he may, round Antonia. An ungainly man, whose tiny head leans to the right and wears a colorless smile. He lives on a few rents and does not work.
From the pigeonholes of her secretary she produced the letters she needed, and meanwhile kept a wary eye upon the camphor bottle, always within reach for the benefit of sensitive patrons likely to succumb to the ordeal of fitting. To judge from young Mrs. Thompson's colorless face, she might need it at any moment.
Max's masterful knock, and the bearded little man appeared on the threshold. He was clad in a purple dressing-gown that suggested some woman had picked it. Surely no man could have fallen victim to that riot of color. "Come in," said the hermit, in a tone so colorless it called added attention to the gown. "Miss, you have the chair.
The luggage from the after house was carried up on deck by Adams and Clarke, and stood waiting for the customhouse. Turner, his hands behind him, paced the deck hour by hour, his heavy face colorless. His wife, dark, repressed, with a look of being always on guard, watched him furtively. Mrs.
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