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Mary having gone to bed, I answered the bell. On the doorstep stood a tall, pale girl, rather shabbily dressed, but with a kind of beauty about her; it seemed to flash from her eyelashes, which I noticed were very heavy. The hall light fell full upon this slight figure, standing there wrapped in an insufficient shawl, against a dense background of whirling snowflakes.
Her hair was black not a glossy black, but the dusky black that is softer than any brown; her eyes were large and of a peculiarly pure blue; and her eyelashes were black, beautifully curved and of remarkable thickness. "Won't you sit down?" he said again, cutting short his thoughts with some confusion. "Thank you." She gravely accepted the proffered chair.
I regret that I may not give Yuba Bill's literal reply. It suggested a form of inquiry at once distant, indirect, outrageous, and impossible. The bar-keeper flashed a lantern upon Jeff's curls and his drooping eyelashes and mustaches. "It's that son o' Briggs o' Tuolumne pooty boy, ain't he?" Bill disdained a reply. "Played himself out down there, I reckon. Left his rifle here in pawn."
He had a little trick of flinging his head back when he laughed aloud, that showed to still greater advantage all of these wonderful teeth, and his eyelashes, and even called attention to the perfect straightness of his handsome nose.
"It's a pity," she said, "you can't have Veronica and her eyelashes instead of me. She's young and she's pretty." He sighed with pain as her nerves lashed into his. "That's what it all amounts to your wanting to get out to the Front. It's what's the matter with half the men who go there and pose as heroes.
There were no women or children, as she had seen in other gipsy camps they had passed in their wayfaring, and but one gipsy a tall athletic man, who stood with his arms folded, leaning against a tree at a little distance off, looking now at the fire, and now, under his black eyelashes, at three other men who were there, with a watchful but half-concealed interest in their conversation.
The muscles of his lips twitched convulsively, and there was a hot surge and swell somewhere in his head, as of tears about to overrun their secret reservoir. But they failed to surprise him, this time. As the first drops fell from his dark eyelashes, he loosed the rein and gave the word to his horse.
Only the grace of God and the uncommon toughness of the British soldier bluffed the Hun and prevented him pouring through the breach to Abbeville and the sea. We were no better than a mosquito curtain stuck in a doorway to stop the advance of an angry bull. The Army Commander was right; we were hanging on with our eyelashes.
"I might be induced," she answered drooping her long eyelashes, to the great amusement of Mr. Campbell, and they also wandered off, leaving the two older people for a cousinly chat. The girls were amazed at the beauty of the garden back of the house. Against the high wall surrounding the small estate clustered masses of flowers.
When I look across the narrow strait of our boarding-house table, and observe what a handsome wretch she is, I begin to think that if Mr. Seward doesn't presently take her in charge, I shall. The preceding paragraphs have little or nothing to do with what I am going to relate: they merely illustrate how wildly a fellow will write, when the eyelashes of a pretty woman get tangled with his pen.
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