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No, it was only that pall of shyness; he tried to fling it off, but could not. Behold Tommy being buried alive! Elspeth showed less contemptibly than her brother, but it was Grizel who did most of the talking. She nodded her head and smiled crookedly at Tommy, but she was watching him all the time.
There were several pretty pictures on the walls, but they were all hung crookedly; the curtain at the window was unlooped, and you could write your name anywhere in the dust that covered mantel, stove, and furniture. And this was Gypsy's room.
A red blind had been pulled down over the light, but pulled crookedly, so that it gaped on one side, and by risking his neck along a branch that looked as treacherous as a twig, Flambeau could just see Colonel Dubosc walking about in a brilliantly-lighted and luxurious bedroom.
He held her and caressed her with a morose satisfaction, as if he had to make sure to himself that she was really his, and she permitted it and abetted it with a guile that astonished her. "What is the matter?" she urged. "Are things going crookedly at Burlingame?" "Things are going as crooked as you please, but not at Burlingame.
A pair of pince-nez sat crookedly on his nose and two fat volumes under his arm completed the picture. Fisher, who was an observer of some discernment, noticed under the overcoat a creased blue suit, large black boots and a pair of pearl studs. The newcomer glared round at the valet. "Take these!" he ordered peremptorily, pointing to the books under his arm.
But not long had Varnopi proceeded, when Donjalolo changed color. "What!" he exclaimed, "will ye contradict each other before our very face. Oh Oro! how hard is truth to be come at by proxy! Fifty accounts have I had of Rafona; none of which wholly agreed; and here, these two varlets, sent expressly to behold and report, these two lying knaves, speak crookedly both. How is it?
The worst of all to make me ashamed of bearing my head so high a thing I saw no way to help, for I never could hang my chin down, and my back was like a gatepost whenever I tried to bend it the worst of all was our little Eliza, who never could come to a size herself, though she had the wine from the Sacrament at Easter and Allhallowmas, only to be small and skinny, sharp, and clever crookedly.
"Did I not foresee that thou wouldst deal crookedly? Restore unto me my bottle!" "I'll go and get it at once," said Horace; "I shan't be five minutes." And he prepared to go. "Thou shalt not leave this house," cried Fakrash, "for I perceive plainly that this is but a device of thine to escape and betray me to the Press Devil!"
For I had a sudden feeling that there was Something just outside the door which he hadn't dared to bring in to me, a little dead body with pinched face and trailing arms. I tried to speak, but I couldn't. I merely gulped. And Whinnie's rough hand pushed me back into my chair. "Dinna greet," he said, with two tears creeping crookedly down his own seamed and wind-roughened face.
Now it had a couple of crazy windows cut crookedly into its sides and a stovepipe thrust up, also crookedly, through the shake roof, and was known as the McQuarry place. Here one might count on finding Swen Brodie at such times as he favoured Coloma with his hulking presence; here foregathered his hangers-on.
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