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Updated: June 23, 2025
He watched her nimble fingers on the delicate embroidery; he glanced at her quiet face and down-turned eyelids, wondering who she was thinking of. Suddenly she raised her eyes and caught him in the fact.
During five consecutive days Henchard's rush basket rode along upon his shoulder between the highway hedges, the new yellow of the rushes catching the eye of an occasional field-labourer as he glanced through the quickset, together with the wayfarer's hat and head, and down-turned face, over which the twig shadows moved in endless procession.
"Come hither, child," called her mother; and Janice, with a burning face and down-turned eyes, sped to her side. "This is my daughter Janice, your Excellency," she told the tall man with whom she had been speaking. "Indeed, madam," said Washington, bowing politely over the girl 's hand, and then looking her in the face with pleasure.
"No; one of the Miss Denyers did. He had given them to her" "Oh!" He at once brightened. "And how did they strike you?" "I'm sorry to say they didn't interest me much. But I have no right to sit in judgment." Elgar had the good taste to say nothing more on the subject. He let his eyes rest on her down-turned face for a moment. "You see a good deal of Miriam, I'm glad to hear."
And then the loser, with the little girl's father and mother and her brothers and sisters, and her kitchen, drawing-room, and bedroom, and her smoking chimney and her memories and all that was hers, in the stern of it, slid beneath the boys' down-turned faces while the whip cracked away beyond the bridge.
But mingled with it there came from another section a horrible sibilant sound, the stage death warrant of many an artist's dreams, the modern down-turned thumb of the Roman populace demanding a gladiator's doom. The curtain fell. Blank silence now from its further side. A man swiftly bundled together the properties and drew them off.
Joe gazed enviously at the row of down-turned faces. They were all going to their homes, while he he was going he knew not whither, at the will of French Pete. He was half tempted to cry out for help; but the foolishness of such an act struck him, and he held his tongue.
So that she might not weep in front of all those people, Margaret with down-turned face walked to the door. She felt utterly lost. As she walked along the interminable street that led to her own house, she was shaken with sobs. 'God has forsaken me, she repeated. 'God has foresaken me. Next day, her eyes red with weeping, she dragged herself to Haddo's door.
So intently was he watching her that he realized no others in the vivid pantomime until the music maidens had gathered closely about her with hushed lutes and a mysterious silence fell as of night upon the plain spreading with the slow movement of the down-turned palms of all that girlish throng the graceful, swaying figures scarce advancing, yet seeming to encompass the plain.
In such wise she rambled on as a bewildered but unresisting girl surrendered herself to her wiles and hands. When Katie returned from a call to the telephone it was to find Ann rubbing her hand over a pretty ankle adorned with the most silky of silken hose. "Likes them," Katie made of it, at sight of the down-turned face; "always wanted them maybe never had them.
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