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His hands were upon his knees; he raised his chin, and smiled at vacancy. 'You thought me unworthy of you. You can confess to me that you were mistaken. 'I didn't know you as I do now, fell from the expressionless lips. 'Thank you for saying that! Well, then, your anxiety is at an end.
The wine was powerful, but it brought no tinge of colour to his cheeks, nor any lustre to his eyes. He continued in the same firm, expressionless tone. "There came a night when I found myself thinking, and I knew then that a new terror was stealing into my life.
Anstruther fairly jumped at that, and shot a keen glance at Eleanor, who still stood rigidly silent with the curious feeling strong on her that the direction of affairs did not lie with her at all. This stern old man who was eyeing her so severely would bring them to a crisis far more swiftly than she was capable of doing. From her expressionless face he looked straight into Mrs.
His eyes were fixed upon the still expressionless face of the woman whose story was slowly unfolding its tragic course. "A rumour of this," Madame de Melbain continued, "reached us in Mexonia! I telegraphed to Amy! She and Louise were at their wits' ends.
He looked beyond Captain Boone at the gulf with the impersonal and expressionless dignity of a Chinese emperor. "Thinkin' of buyin' that'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage. "Why, no," said the Kid gently, "I reckon not. I never saw it before. I was just looking at it. Not thinking of selling it, are you?"
Her white face was turned piteously upward and from her expressionless eyes flashed a glance of fear. I felt myself in a brutal mood. "Why," I asked, "are you avoiding me as if I were a pestilence?" She murmured that she was not avoiding me, but was in a hurry.
He as rather an old man and his movements were slack; his face was hard, but on the whole expressionless. "Hallo!" he said. "Late again! The others have pulled out a quarter of an hour since." "I saw them," Charnock answered with a languid hint of meaning. "Didn't want to join the procession and thought they might load up my rig if I got here on time."
There was a beauty in the white, sunlit landscape spread before me that compelled my glance. To some it might compare but ill with the luxuriant splendour that is of the vernal season; but to me there was a wondrously impressive charm about that solemn, silent, virginal expanse of snow, expressionless as the Sphinx, and imposing and majestic by virtue of that very lack of expression.
The intruder passed by to the vacant seat, while the now thoroughly awakened and annoyed Hochwaldian whirled, to find himself looking into a pair of expressionless brown goggles. With a snort of fury, the diplomat struck backward. The glasses and the solemn face behind them dodged smartly.
Then the nurse brought him a chair; and he removed his coat and hat and seated himself beside the cot, his face resolutely straightened into an expressionless gravity. As he watched, the nurse administered a hypodermic of strychnia, and then bathed the burning face and hands with cool water.
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