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Updated: May 31, 2025
I have my father." "My child, you are in trouble. You were crying when I came in. "Indeed I was not, sir! how did you know I was crying?" "When I came in you turned your back to me, instead of facing me, which is more natural when any one enters a room; and soon after you made an excuse for leaving the room, and when you came back there was a drop of water in your right eyelash."
I denied my old calling without the quiver of an eyelash. I hadn't a scruple. Besides, my old profession many a time failed me, and it might have been dangerous to have been known as even an ex- journalist today within the zone of military operations.
In the closed doorway of the town hall a tiny group of men were gathered, a group who spoke scarcely above a whisper, who kept a sharp lookout all surrounding, who stood ready at the twitch of an eyelash to disperse to the four winds. This was revolt incipient. In the single room of Bob Manning's general store was open revolt and plotting.
"Your sister Winifred, and the Car-r-digans" she took up a tiny stick of black "and Prosper Profond." "That Belgian chap? Why him?" Annette turned her neck lazily, touched one eyelash, and said: "He amuses Winifred." "I want some one to amuse Fleur; she's restive." "R-restive?" repeated Annette. "Is it the first time you see that, my friend? She was born r-restive, as you call it."
Henry Blaine felt a glow of pardonable elation, but his usually expressive face did not betray by a single flicker of an eyelash that he had gained his point. He knew that Ramon Hamilton had never started on that mission to Long Bay, but if the young girl's health and reason were to be spared, her anxiety must be allayed.
"You're a good sport; hitherto you've taken the count, as well as given it, without the flutter of an eyelash and over far more serious matters than your humble servant, who hasn't anything to give him value." Again the sarcastic laugh. She knew he was playing the game, two games indeed, the diplomatic and his own. He had never forgot himself nor regarded her for one little instant.
"I have truly a revelation worth hearing!" She made no answer. "You owe it me," he added presently. "Behold what damaging things I have intrusted to you. You can ruin me by the droop of an eyelash." "I should have told you at first who I am," she said finally. "I will not betray what you told me in ignorance " "But Amaryllis told me this before you came."
He stood motionless while they adjusted the rope round his bronzed throat. They had judged him for a villain; they should at least know him a man. So he stood there straight and lithe, wide-shouldered and lean-flanked, a man in a thousand. Not a twitch of the well-packed muscles, not a quiver of the eyelash nor a swelling of the throat betrayed any fear. His cool eyes were quiet and steady.
But this was not all that struck him; the face before him was no longer the passionate, haggard visage that confronted him that morning; the feverish air, the burning color, the strained muscles of mouth and brow, and the staring eyes were gone; wiped away, perhaps, by the tears that still left their traces on cheek and dark eyelash.
You know," a note of passion crept into her colorless voice, "You know that there hasn't been a suggestion of scandal with our home. I married you, young, beautiful, admired; I am handsome now." She drew herself up disdainfully. "I have not wanted for opportunity, I think you might know; but not one man in all the world can boast I have dropped an eyelash for his words.
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