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Updated: June 10, 2025
The preliminary hearing will be at three o'clock to-morrow." Hunnicott knew when he was definitely at the string's end; and when he was out of the judge's room and the Court House, he made a dash for his office, dry-lipped and panting.
"Your honour," said Alison Breck, who was next in age to the deceased, "suld send doun something to us for keeping up our hearts at the lykewake, for a' Saunders's gin, puir man, was drucken out at the burial o' Steenie, and we'll no get mony to sit dry-lipped aside the corpse.
Again he looked toward Ware, who, dry-lipped and ashen, was regarding him steadfastly. Glance met glance, for a brief instant they looked deep into each other's eyes and then the hand Slosson had rested on Murrell's shoulder dropped at his side. The judge's and Mr.
"At five minutes to eight I will tell you," he said, in a loud, overbearing voice. "Very good," answered Indiman, placidly. But the fellow's courage deserted him at the pinch, in accordance with Indiman's prediction. He sat there dry-lipped and wet-browed, a half-burned cigarette in his yellow-stained fingers, and his eyes fixed immovably on Indiman's watch.
Minutes after she knew that he had had time to come, and more, she still clung there, staring wide-eyed, villageward. It wasn't a recollection of that half dismantled wreck of a house under the opposite ridge that finally drew her dry-lipped gaze from the road; she did not even think of it that moment.
And where else would her ladyship have graciously consented to sit by that dry-lipped feminine figure prematurely old, withered after short bloom like her artificial flowers, holding a shabby velvet reticule before her, and occasionally putting in her mouth the point with which she pricked her card?
I felt nearly certain you were the woman I wanted, so I rigged up a plan. You know how it worked out." "Maybe I'm stupid," Annesley said, dry-lipped. "I don't understand yet." "Why, I thought the thing over, and it seemed to me that married life if it came to that would be easier for both if the man could make some sort of appeal to the love of romance in a girl.
You love the factor!" "Hush!" whispered Maren, dry-lipped. The roar from the river bank had sharpened itself into one point of utterance which pierced the calm heavens in a mingling of native speech, French and broken English from Nakonkirhirinon and halfbreed, and, worse than both, dissolute "white Indian," and its burden was, "A skin for a skin!"
And in the lean years, which are the seventh years the years of the rabbit plague starvation stalks in the teepees, and gaunt, sunken-eyed forms, dry-lipped, and with the skin drawn tightly over protruding ribs, stiffen between shoddy blankets. For even the philosophers of the land of God and the H.B.C. must eat to live if not this week, at least once next week.
On occasion the tones of his voice told her, the look that came into his eyes proclaimed it to her, his feverishness and restlessness made it certain. How many a night had she thrown her arm over his shoulder, and sought his hand and held it while in the dark silence, wide-eyed, dry-lipped, and with a throat like fire he had held himself back from falling.
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