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"Oh, yes," said Ruth, her eyes dilating. "If," continued Miss Mackenzie, interrupting Mrs. Naylor, and speaking in a very firm tone "if, instead of these pleasant things happening, a little girl learns to join insurrectionists, to forget those to whom she is indebted for such tremendous advantages, then how do matters stand eh, Ruth Craven?" "I don't understand," said Ruth.
Many's the time they'd dropped in at the ranch when antelope-stalking down the foot-hills. Nolan had prospered. He and Feeny, both, when last heard of were somewhere up among the mines. Burns was in Collins's Camp on Lance Creek. Toomey and Scully had got "cleaned out" and were firing on the Transcontinental. "Where?" demanded Geordie, his eyes dilating. "Mountain Division, both of 'em.
She had no sooner turned the angle of the chateau than she started back with a convulsive cry, and her momentary feebleness left her directly; she crouched against the wall and griped the ancient corner-stone with her tender hand till it powdered, and she spied with dilating eye into the Pleasaunce, Rose and Jacintha panting behind her.
Ere she could finish the sentence, a strange interruption occurred. A loud voice cried out, "I SEE HIM, I SEE HIM." And the old man with dilating eyes seemed to be looking right through the wall of the house. "IN A BOAT; ON A GREAT RIVER; COMING THIS WAY. Sore disfigured; but I knew him. Gone! gone! all dark." And he sank back, and asked feebly where was Margaret.
"I have done very wrong," murmured Ruth, but so low, that perhaps he did not hear her, for he went on, lashing himself up. "I welcomed her. At the mention of Leonard, Ruth lifted up her eyes for the first time since the conversation began, the pupils dilating, as if she were just becoming aware of some new agony in store for her.
At all events, she had made up her mind to get rid of the commoner without further ceremony. Putting her fine ears back and dilating her nostrils, she suddenly gave a snort and a whisk with her tail, and up went her heels toward the eternal stars that is, if there had been any stars visible just then.
The gurgle of that cloistered brooklet was already in Pem's heart as her dilating gaze spanned the Housatonic, broad and open, "warbling" amid its soft meadow slopes, as she had looked upon it from the Devil's Chair. "But, goody! I hope we won't run across him there Jack at a Pinch! Flaunting round like a grosbeak!" She bit the thought into an olive.
She sniffed in the breeze with dilating nostrils, and the wild look of her set him to wondering how such a gentle mother could have such a gypsy daughter. Perhaps it was the father yes, the old man had been an Apache in his youth according to the slang of the studios. "But you must paint me as I wish, not as you will," resumed Berenice. "I hate conventional portraits.
She made no secret of her doubts that he was the one; at the same time, she said she had decided to take him home with her and give him every possible advantage. Then, a little wearily, she told what were the plans she had made for him. At the foot of the bed Mrs. Murphy listened, crying softly. Across the room Jerry Murphy, his eyes dilating, emitted an occasional low "Gee!
It is also a fashionable resort for pedestrians, equestrians, and carriages, and whilst I am dilating on the attractions of the Champs-Elysées, I must not omit to direct the attention of my readers to the very delightful establishment which Doctor Achille Hoffman has formed in the Avenue Fortuné, which is called the Villa Beaujon, uniting within its interior every object desirable for health, comfort, and pleasure.
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