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'Twould have been strange indeed had she NOT known!" and he caught at a down-drooping rose and crushed its fragrant head in his hand with a sort of wanton petulance "The King himself is less acquainted with his people's doings than the wearer of the All- Reflecting Eye!
The more one tries to peer into such veiled, down-drooping eyes, the more do they fascinate, since they still withhold a part of their mystery. What her eyes held and there was often a roguish gleam in the corners and in particular what thoughts of himself they hid, Mansana would have given much to know.
They had come to a bend in the slowly flowing river, where, instead of torch-bright maples and poplars, rank upon rank of somber pines marched away to the summit of a steeply ascending foothill. The river was clouded dark with their melancholy reflections. On their edge, overhanging the water, stood a single sumac, a standard-bearer with a thousand little down-drooping flags of crimson.
The next morning at eight o'clock a horseman loped out of the brush to the Nopalito ranch-house. He dismounted stiffly, and strode, with whizzing spurs, to the house. His horse gave a great sigh and swayed foam-streaked, with down-drooping head and closed eyes. But waste not your pity upon Belshazzar, the flea-bitten sorrel.
The daughter's small, plump figure promised to develop in that direction; but at present it had only a soft and budding roundness of contour, that looked charming in the simple morning-dress, in which alone Mansana had seen her. The father's eyes had lost their colour and fire; the daughter's were half-hidden by down-drooping eyelids, and a slight bend of the head.
Travelling quicker than the cattle, we were camped and at dinner at "Abraham's" another lily-strewn billabong when the mob came in, the thirsty brutes travelling with down-drooping heads and lowing deeply and incessantly.
"Those are your old, discarded theories, Ronsard!" said Von Glauben, shaking his head; "You said you would never return to them!" "Aye!" rejoined Ronsard; "I have tried to put away all my old thoughts and dreams for her sake" and his gaze rested lovingly on Gloria as, standing on tiptoe to reach a down-drooping rose, she gathered it and fastened it in her bosom.
"Thank you kindly, sir," she mocked him, curtseying. "You're welcome, ma'am," Sandy returned, with a clumsy bow, failing to realize her change of attitude. "If you guess I'm right for marryin', maybe you'll hand me my diploma," she said, with a demure down-drooping of her eyelids. She waited, and finally glanced up into his flushed face.
Yet the effect was more than charming. "I'll be only too happy, if Carmena has no objection." He glanced up into the face of the older girl and surprised a look not meant for him to see. As the down-drooping lashes veiled her dark eyes a deep blush glowed under the tan of her dust-grimed, haggard face. The realization of the meaning of that blush and glance sobered Lennon.
He was no frisky animal to show his delight by yelping and gamboling, but he laid his long nose in her hand, and slowly wagged the down-drooping curve of his shaggy tail; and then he placidly walked by her side up into the hall, where he stood awaiting her. She would go along and beg of her husband to leave his work for a day and go with her for a walk down to Richmond Park.
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