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But she did not show any dimples, though his eyes and his lips smiled together when she looked at him, and when he took up her hand and kissed each finger-tip in turn, she was as passive as a doll under the caresses of a child. "What's the matter?" he demanded, when he found that her manner did not soften. "Worrying still about what that old squaw said?" "Not in the slightest."
He got the Technical Reference Room at the Public Library and asked for the detailed plans of the big electronic National Vote Tabulating machine in Washington. At the other end a microfilm reel clicked into place, ready to obey his finger-tip control. For two hours he read and read, making notes and studying the circuits of the complicated machine.
But in such a life as I now lived, it was not a finger-tip that worked but the whole man. The cabbage I cut for dinner was fashioned from my own substance, for my sweat had nourished it. The butter I ate was part of my own energy, spent over the churn, come back to me in the freshness and firmness of edible gold. When I lay down at night I was quits with Nature.
There was a tiny letter embroidered in the corner, but already the light was growing too dim to read it, and though he held it up and looked through it and felt the embroidery with his finger-tip he could not be sure that it was either of the letters that had been engraved on the whip. Nevertheless, the little white messenger determined his course.
He carelessly took off the width of the upright, reading the figures with a touch; and then continued to run a finger-tip delicately up and down the edges of the instrument. "Four and seven-eighths," was his unspoken conclusion. "I hope it will do sir." "Admirably," replied Carrados. "But I haven't reached the end of my requirements yet, Miss Chubb."
Now suppose you were to melt some ice in the palm of one hand, and try to dip a finger-tip of the other in a saucepan of boiling water; you would find a great difference of temperature between the two, would you not? Which difference of temperature people have succeeded in measuring with the thermometer, as accurately as your mamma measures a piece of cloth with her yard measure.
The blind Anthony Croft sitting in the kitchen doorway had seemingly missed the heights of life he might have trod, and had walked his close on fifty years through level meadows of mediocrity, a witch in every finger-tip waiting to be set to work, head among the clouds, feet stumbling, eyes and ears open to hear God's secret thought; seeing and hearing it, too, but lacking force to speak it forth again; for while imperious genius surmounts all obstacles, brushes laws and formulas from its horizon, and with its own free soul sees its "path and the outlets of the sky," potential genius for ever needs an angel of deliverance to set it free.
"But Peach is so pleasant!" wailed the Little Crippled Girl. "Peach is so pleasant!" she began to scream and kick. "So it seems!" growled the Senior Surgeon. "And she's dying of it!" Tearfully the Little Girl wriggled down to the ground, and hobbled around and thrust her finger-tip into the White Linen Nurse's blushiest cheek. "I don't want Peach to die," she admitted worriedly.
That was your chair, as I remember," said Westerling after indicating to François that he might go, "and this was mine." But the teapot was not Mrs. Galland's it belonged to the staff. "This is different," observed Marta, touching her finger-tip to the coat of arms of the Grays on the side of a cup.
Dol snatched it up as a dog might snatch a bone, and touched it with longing in every finger-tip. "There's one bad thing about this place," grumbled Herb presently, surveying the landscape wherever his eye could travel, "there isn't a pint of drinking-water to be seen. There may be pools here and there in that bog; but, unless we want to keel over before morning, we'd better let 'em alone.
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