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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Thinking you a mad monkey, and that your keeper," said Marian, looking proudly at the handsome face and dancing black eyes of her beautiful brother. "Why! how you are grown, Gerald! Do stand up, and let me see if you are not taller than I am." "No, not quite so tall, unless it is your bonnet," said Gerald, after craning up his neck in vain. "At any rate, you are taller than Lionel.
"Oh, you'll learn," he said, with such heavenly soothing in his voice that I almost reached out my hands and clung to him as he settled the fussing poultry in the bottom of the carriage in such a way as to leave room for my feet among them. Mr. G. Bird was perched on the seat at my side and was craning his neck down and soothingly scolding his family. "How are you, Mr. Craddock?"
"So you do," he rejoined, adjusting his hat with precision as he spoke, and craning his neck to see himself sideways in the glass. "You look like a silly little idiot. But never mind. That's all a girl need be if she's pretty; and if she isn't pretty, she's of no account, so it doesn't matter what she is."
A bevy of bridesmaids ran laughing after them, and then came a pause. Capper edged a little nearer to the churchyard steps and waited. The clamour of bells was incessant, wholly drowning the clamour of voices. Everyone was craning forward to see the crowd of guests. The long procession had already begun to issue from the church porch.
Each soldier as he passed turned and looked down on it, some craning their necks curiously, others giving a careless glance, and some without any interest at all, as they would have looked at a house by the roadside or a passing cart or a hole in the road. One young soldier caught his foot in a trailing vine, and fell forward just opposite to it.
Craning out as far as he could, he made an inspection of the fall. It was about thirty feet in clear descent. Below, the water ran frothing away and soon became smooth and tranquil, as if reposing after the violent leap. Should he allow himself to be carried over the cataract? This was the question he now commenced considering.
"If here isn't Mr Snell coming in alonger Pa," said Agnetta, craning her neck to see out of the window. "He's sure to stay to tea." She immediately drew her chair up to the table and helped herself largely to jam. "And of all evenings in the week I wish he hadn't chosen this," said Mrs Greenways. "Poking and meddling in other folks' concerns.
Gone all real recollection; except that it had hurt him horribly. In this blankness he stood passing his handkerchief over hands and lips, which were very dry. By craning his head he could just see Fleur, standing with her back to that piano still grinding out its tune, her arms tight crossed on her breast, a lighted cigarette between her lips, whose smoke half veiled her face.
Yet, was it Lucy he kissed? Lucy he gathered in his arms? Or was it not rather Love itself? the love he had sought, had missed, but must still seek and seek? 'Daddy! said a little voice. The owner of it, a child of four, had pushed open a glass door, and was craning his curly head through it towards a garden that lay beyond. 'Yes, you rascal, what do you want now? 'Daddy, come here!
I would rather that you thought quietly over what I have told you. Perhaps, on second thoughts, you will see your way to give me some slight hope. I should really advise it." "I did not ask your advice. What is your knowledge?" "You will have it?" he hissed. "Yes." He leant forward, craning his neck, pushing his yellow face and hungering black eyes close into hers.
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