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Both were comely, with delicate features full of sensibility. Neither, I judged, had reached the age of thirty. In the moment of meeting a moment notable for a stammering of incoherent phrases, a darting of sidelong looks at Antonio, a general effect of furtiveness and excitement no one remembered to present me to these ladies.
His surprise had evidently impressed her as furtiveness, for she said, "So it is Mr. Easterday?" He was at a loss what to do with her how to turn her away. For Maisie's sake she must not be allowed to enter, for then she would discover that they had been alone. He opened the door a few inches wider and parried to gain time. "If it's Mr.
The others smiled with varying degrees of furtiveness. Pete, as they all knew, could always placate an incensed Clara by offering her some loot of the homeward way: a bunch of flowers, a handful of nuts, beautifully colored pebbles, shells with the iridescence still wet on them. She soon tired of these toys, but she liked the excitement of the surprise. "Generous to us!"
From under lowered eyelids he had been watching, with a moody furtiveness, Mary Rochefort and Burnaby, who were oblivious to the other two in the manner of people who are glad they have met. Mrs. Ennis found herself annoyed, her sense of good manners shocked.
These men are firmly against all the divertissements of more cultured regions. They oppose prize-fighting, horse-racing, Sunday baseball and games of chance. They are bitter prohibitionists. By their incessant vice-crusades they reduce the romance of sex to furtiveness and piggishness. They know nothing of music or the drama, and view a public library merely as something to be rigorously censored.
They paused before a dairy restaurant that advertised its "Surpassing Coffee" in white-enamel letters on its shop-front windows. Mrs. Cregan's hunger drew her in, but slowly; and Mrs. Byrne followed, coughing to conceal her embarrassment. It was the first time that Mrs. And she glanced about her at tiled walls and mosaic floors with a furtiveness that was none the less critical for being so sly.
"Rowlett, be ye one of these hyar lavish of lovers ye jest told me erbout?" The mountaineer is, by nature, secretive to furtiveness, and under so outright a questioning the visitor stiffened with affront. But at once his expression cleared of displeasure and he met frankness with a show of equal candour.
Apart from this circumstance, however, there was a certain suggestion of furtiveness in the movements of the figure, a something indicative of a desire to avoid observation, that attracted my attention from my book and aroused my curiosity.
From this time the conversation continued between Bourgonef and myself; and he not only succeeded in entirely dissipating my absurd antipathy which I now saw to have been founded on purely imaginary grounds, for neither the falseness nor the furtiveness could now be detected but he succeeded in captivating all my sympathy.
Henceforth she read with understanding the changes in his manner, and saw behind the mingled abstraction and fanciful meditation of his talk. She had not yet made up her mind what to do. She saw that he hid it from her assiduously. He did so more because he wished not to pain her than from furtiveness. By nature he was open and brave, and had always had a reputation for plainness and sincerity.
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