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After a long time, his protruding lower lip moved two or three times before he spoke. The jester should have come forward at his first glance, to answer any question asked him. Instead, his colourless lips were parted and tightly drawn back, and his teeth were chattering, do what he could to close them.
"She didn't know yer was comin'. I didn't tell her!" It seemed to Rose-Marie that there was a scared sort of appeal in the woman's eyes as they travelled, slowly, over her face. But there was not even appeal in the tone of her voice it was all a drab, colourless monotone. "Whatcha come here fer?" she questioned. "Pa, he's home. If he should ter wake up " She left the sentence unfinished.
The colouring and sandbanks this first day are undoubtedly suggestive of the Nile, but the Irrawaddy is wider; the sand edge falls in the same kind of chunks; the Nile is silvery and blue, with colourless shadows, here everywhere rainbow tints spread out most delicately, and here instead of Egyptians in floppy robes you have refined people exquisitely dressed.
He knew well enough that if he had declared his full mind on the subject to his father, the extent to which he felt forced to suspend his judgment in religious matters, his father would have desired the step no longer. With the rest of the family circle, in these years, Hugh's relations were affectionate but colourless.
I noticed, too, that his face was angular and humorous; his eyes keen and merry by turns; his hair of the colourless brown one sees among fisherfolk whose lives are spent in the sun and rain.
My two living tritonia, contained in a large clear colourless glass cylinder, filled with pure sea water, and placed on the central table of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, around which many members were sitting, continued to clink audibly within the distance of twelve feet during the whole meeting.
He had thought himself very sharp that first day in hitting them all off in his mind with the "cosmopolite" label. Later it seemed feeble and colourless confessedly helplessly provisional. He yet when he first applied it felt a glow of joy for an instructor he was still empirical rise from the apprehension that living with them would really he to see life.
After all, we might not have been watched while returning, I mean. Of course we were seen leaving the house." The girl sat down again. The great wealth of her hair looked very dark above her colourless face. She raised her eyes, glistening softly in the light with a sort of unreadable appeal, with a strange effect of unseeing innocence.
I find it hard to understand, anybody would, that you could take so much good from me and not so much more." She opened her lips again, but kept back the words. "Yes," she added, "that is enough to say." But for the colourless face and the tenseness about her lips it might have been thought that she definitely abandoned what she had learned she could not have.
He had flushed cheeks, and his hair was somewhat disorderly. In contrast with Eve's colourless composure, his appearance was decidedly bacchanalian; but the thought merely amused him. They crossed Holborn, and took their way up Southampton Row, neither speaking until they were within sight of Russell Square. "I like this part of London," said Hilliard at length, pointing before him.
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