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Updated: May 31, 2025
She took off her glove, wiped a finger across each eyelash, and sat still. "Have you read your little note, Mr. Halifax?" No answer. "I will take your message back. She told me what she had said to you." Ay, all the world might have read those simple lines: "MY DEAR FRIEND, "I did not know till yesterday that you had been ill. I have not forgotten how kind you were to my poor father.
"You remember me, Santan, the Apache, at Fort Bent?" he questioned. Jondo looked keenly to be sure that his memory fitted the man before him. "Yes, you are Santan. You brought me a message from Father Josef once." The Indian's face did not change by the twitch of an eyelash as he replied. "I would bring another message from him. He would see you an hour later than you planned.
They were so long, so lustrous, yet at times so very soft under their thick fringe of eyelash! The nut-brown hair was carefully braided beneath the border of delicate lace: it was evident the little village beauty knew how to make the most of all her attractions, for the gay colours which were displayed in her neckerchief were in complete harmony with the complexion.
He glanced anxiously up the broad white ribbon of a road that gleamed now in the moonlight, and then pulling out his pocket flash, flooded it swiftly over Billy's upturned freckled face that lay there still as death without the flicker of an eyelash. The man was panic-stricken.
With clenched fingers gripping the arms of his great chair, and head held forward, he looked like one frozen at the moment of doom, such the expression of features usually so noble, and now almost unrecognisable were it not for the snow of his locks and his unmistakable brow. Frozen! Not an eyelash quivered, nor was there any perceptible movement in his sturdy chest.
"If if fate or something hadn't brought you here to-day I don't know what would've happened to Betty and me. ..." "Never mind," Duncan tried to soothe him. "Just don't you think about it." Graham shook his head, still bewildered. "Perhaps," he stumbled on, "to a gentleman of your wealth four hundred dollars isn't much " "No," said Duncan gravely, without the flicker of an eyelash: "nothing."
The Curate saw instantly that there was comprehension in the flicker of the eyelash and the tremulous movement of the hand upon the bed. It was a new and unaccustomed part which he had now to play; he went hurriedly to the other side and leaned over the pillow to make out the stammering words which began to be audible.
There was not an instant when I dared relax my watch, first at this window, now at that, for who could tell by which way the Spanish Woman would approach through the sand-hills, driven up in her carriage, or, what was more probable, on foot over the tree-guarded slopes of the hill. The blink of an eyelash might lose her!
"Well, yes, some," returned David with an open countenance, no suspicion of a trap in even the flicker of an eyelash. "They sent Mrs. Cherry. Blooming more every day isn't she, don't you think? She didn't fall on my neck worth a cent though I had braced myself for the shock. She managed to convey the fact that the whole organization is for me just the same. It's some pumpkins to be a candidate.
In that first moment of consciousness he understood why men of proven honour and courage have been known to take liberties with the laws of life and death. Zyarulla, entering soundlessly, set down the chota hassri on a small table at his master's elbow without betraying his surprise and concern by so much as the flicker of an eyelash.
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