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It was only later that I saw the significance of the instinctive French phrase. He rose, glanced around him, pounced on a little silver match-box and an empty wire waste-paper basket, and contorting his mobile face into a hideous grimace of imbecility, began to juggle with these two objects and his cigar, displaying the faultless technique of the professional.
He screwed up first the right eye and then the left, and smote his thigh repeatedly; and assuredly, if contorting his visage could have comforted Mrs Bright, she would have returned home a happy woman, for he made faces at her violently for full five minutes; but it did her no good, perhaps because she didn't see him, her eyes being suffused with tears.
Lady Swiggs is seen trembling from head to foot, her yellow complexion changing to pale white, her features contorting as with pain, and her hand clutching at her pocket. "O heavens!" she sighs, "all is gone, gone, gone: how vain and uncertain are the things here below."
I mean to say, the salary, the jolly old salary, you know . . . quite a help when a fellow's lost all his money!" Jill was surprised to observe that the Last of the Rookes was contorting his face in an unsightly manner that seemed to be an attempt at a wink, pregnant with hidden meaning. She took her cue dutifully, though without understanding. "Oh, yes," she replied. Freddie seemed grateful.
"Oh, ma," he cried, contorting himself "oh, ma, can't I go? Please, ma, can't I go? Can't I go, ma?" "It's half-past nine now, Willie." He ended by wailing out a compromise: "Well, just down to the corner, ma? Just down to the corner?" From the avenue came the sound of rushing men who wildly shouted.
"Fraid I'm a bit muddy," he said suddenly. "Oh, you might be worse," I answered reassuringly. "Do you think they'll notice it?" he inquired, contorting himself horribly in order to view the small of his back. "Well," I hesitated, "it all depends, you know." "I don't mind Dorothy, or Betty the cook, or the governess it's Auntie Lisbeth I'm thinking about." "Auntie who?"
For some three weeks, however, he contrived to remain in Hull. He shaved the grey beard he was wearing at the time of Dyson's murder, dyed his hair, put on a pair of spectacles, and for the first time made use of his singular power of contorting his features in such a way as to change altogether the character of his face. But the hue and cry after him was unremitting.
Incontinent I lifted the latch and entered the shop to behold a stout young gentleman contorting himself horribly in a vain endeavour to regard the small of his back. "There!" he gasped. "The breeches! Told you they were too tight I heard 'em crack they're too infernal tight, I tell ye!" "Oh, dear me, impossible, sir!" sighed a pale, long-visaged person, flourishing a tape-measure.
Deliberation caused sundry attacks on the moss of adjoining walls with the end of his stick, a change of his hat from the horizontal to the less so; a sense of tediousness announced itself in a lowering of the person by spreading the knees to a lozenge-shaped aperture and contorting the arms.
You'll fight me fight me!" He lifted weakly, balancing himself upon unsteady, weakened legs. Blake, stepping back, found his hand against a glass of water. He seized it advanced a step and cast the contents of the glass full into Schuyler's contorting face.... Schuyler slowly came to himself.
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