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I had, it is true, seen sufficient of life to be of charitable mind, and yet there was that within me which instantly revolted. She read all this in my face, but fronted me without the quiver of an eyelash, firmly withdrawing her hand. "It is easy to perceive your disapproval," she said more coldly, "but I have no further explanation to make.
And did Dolly never once look behind not once? Was there not one little fleeting glimpse of the dark eyelash, almost resting on her flushed cheek, and of the downcast sparkling eye it shaded? Joe thought there was and he is not likely to have been mistaken; for there were not many eyes like Dolly's, that's the truth.
For a moment he watched her silently; then he continued slowly, in low, nonchalant tones: "I am positive that when I at last gain your consent to marry me," he paused an instant to note the effect of his words, but there was not the quiver of an eyelash on her part, "even then, you will have the audacity to tell me that you gave it for any other reason under heaven than consideration for me or my wishes."
That he watched her she knew, for she had been feminine enough to trap him into changing his position that he might keep her in view. Besides, was there not the miraculous bunch of flowers? She had, to be sure, never acknowledged them even by the lifting of an eyelash, nor had she proof that Martin's hand had really put them within her reach; nevertheless, she could have staked her oath upon it.
When he passed the Royal he never turned an eyelash, and when he met Captain Roper on the Front, three days after having been introduced to him, he "cut him dead" another privileged consequence of a social relation rather than seem to himself to make the remotest approach to the question of whether Miss Cookham had left Properley.
Butscha looked at Modeste. The pair walked some distance in silence; the girl was impenetrable and not an eyelash quivered. "Mademoiselle, permit me to be the exponent of the thoughts that are lying at the bottom of your heart like sea-mosses under the waves, and which you do not choose to gather up." "Eh!" said Modeste, "so my intimate friend and counsellor thinks himself a mirror, does he?"
She went to dances, but though sometimes she toddled a bit, mostly she sat out or tucked in. During her three years as a waitress several customers looked at her with interest though without much principle. The president of a well-known bank, the proprietor of a folding-bed concern, a retired plumber, a Divinity student and a ticket-chopper. None of these made her bat an eyelash.
Then there was much parley o'er the fitting o' the shoe, as both damsels did straightway sit down upon their feet, neither for a long time would they move an eyelash, till his lordship, with a twink o' his eye at me, did suggest corns and bunions as a reason for their 'havior and, Lord! then 'twas pretty to mark how like little chicks beneath their dam's feathers, first one little foot and then the other did steal out from the rich lace o' their petticoats.
The girl flung herself on her knees by the sofa, and, clutching her head in both hands, fastened her eyes, not an eyelash quivering, on her brother. Sanin rubbed on, and kept stealing glances at her. Mercy! what a beautiful creature she was!
Then I peered through the low bushes, without moving so much as an eyelash, expecting every instant that my eyes would fall upon him, and certain that not a leaf had rustled nor a twig sprung back, when all at once I heard him on the other side. He had flitted through the underbrush, not flying much, but hopping on or very near the ground, without a breath to betray him.
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