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On this particular day almost all the seduction of an October day was in the air, a splendid dull warm-cool crispness, which filtered down through the faded chestnut leaves from the sunlight, and left pale splotches of purple and orange on the trottoirs ... a really marvellous day, which I was spending in that most excellent occupation in Paris of gazing into shops and, passing cafés, staring into the faces of those who sat on the terrasses.... But this is an occupation for one alone; so, when I met Sitgreaves, we joined a terrasse ourselves.
About the small figure of the daughter there was always something distinguishing, even if you rode up from behind, that told of youth, of mettle, of self-regard; a neatness of fit in the dress, a firm erectness in the little slim back, a faint proudness of neck, a glimpse of ribbon at the throat, another at the waist; a something of assertion in the slight crispness of her homespun sunbonnet, and a ravishing glint of two sparks inside it as you got one glance within no more.
The smell of varnish on new furniture is as delightfully novel as the odor of the orange-blossoms; the brightness of the new carpets and the crispness of the new curtains both mark an era, even if the stove is obstinate about drawing or a man is called out of bed to put up the coffee-mill.
For even in the world of wheat, when deep among the varnished crispness of the jointed stalks, and below the feathered yielding of the graceful heads, even as I gripped the swathes and swept the sickle round them, even as I flung them by to rest on brother stubble, through the whirling yellow world, and eagerness of reaping, came the vision of my love, as with downcast eyes she wondered at my power of passion.
Dry cereals are served in the same way. Puffed grains or flakes gain crispness and flavor when reheated, not browned, before serving. The best breakfast toast is that made at the table over an electric toaster. Be sure, if you have French toast, hot cakes or waffles served, that they come from the kitchen hot.
The sea, lying between the cliffs and the clouds on the horizon, might have suggested a mountain-lake slumbering in the hollow of the enclosing rocks, were it not for that crispness in the air and those pale, soft and indefinite colours in the sky which give a special charm to certain days in Normandy. "It's delicious," murmured Hortense.
The day was beautiful; but the roads were heavy and toilsome to the foot-passenger; for the snow lay deep; and frost had succeeded just sufficient to glaze the surface into a crispness which retarded without absolutely resisting the pressure of the foot.
And she called me 'dearest. It THRILLED me. I could tell her ANYTHING." "So you liked Miss West, Faith?" Mr. Meredith asked, with a rather odd intonation. "I love her," cried Faith. "Ah!" said Mr. Meredith. "Ah!" John Meredith walked meditatively through the clear crispness of a winter night in Rainbow Valley. The hills beyond glistened with the chill splendid lustre of moonlight on snow.
And Babs wore her office manner, all crispness and business, until they were seated. But this swimming pool was not like a pool on Earth. The water was deeply sunk beneath the pool's rim, and great waves surged back and forth. The swimmers . Babs gasped. A man stood on a board quite thirty feet above the water. He prepared to dive. "That's Johnny Simms!" she said, awed. "Who's he?"
And all under the inviolable seal of my profession." Some quality of unexpressed insistence in the stranger or was it the speaker's own uneasiness of spirit? brought back the roving, brilliant eyes to the square face below. "A little blackmail on the side, eh?" The words were spoken low, but with a peculiar, abrupt crispness. This, then, was direct challenge. Professor Certain tautened.
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