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And then, underneath, was the addition "He never stops smiling." Twice over Dunn read this strange, disturbing message, and then a third time, and he made a little gesture of annoyance for it did not seem to him that the words he read made sense, or else it was that his brain no longer worked normally, and could not interpret them. "Oh, but that's absurd," he said aloud.
The whole dignity of his features and person depended upon the expression of serene, yet solemn, purpose sustaining a feeble frame; and the painter, by way of flattering him, strengthened him, and made him athletic in body, gay in countenance, idle in gesture; and the whole power and being of the man himself were lost. And this is still more the case with our public portraits.
She passed her hand across her brow and eyes, and pushed back her heavy hair. It was a gesture that was common to her. To Evelyn it brought a sudden stinging memory of the ballroom at the Palace; of how this girl had looked in her splendid dress, with the roses in her hair; of Haward's words at the coach door. She had not seen him since that night. "I am going a long way," continued Audrey.
The woman whose vision rose before the old man, who sat, a bowed and desolate figure, in his chair, had wrecked his. Strange that the meeting with this young man had called up that vision, strange that his face and voice had revivified the memory of the past. With a sigh, a gesture of the flexible hand, as if he were putting the matter from him, Mr.
"I don't care what Jim says to me; he can say anything he likes." Her beautiful face, half turned over her shoulder, quivered slightly. "If you knew how I " she began, then stopped short. "That's just what I was saying to Jim," put in her mother eagerly. The girl flung up both hands in a gesture of angry protest. "Please don't talk about me, mother to Jim, or anybody. Do you hear?"
He still held that persistence was the greatest lever in the world, that unswerving persistence was the master of opportunity. They had now come to two paths in the park leading different ways. "This road leads to Kenilworth, this to your prison," he said with a slow gesture, his eyes fixed upon hers. "I will go to my prison, then," she said, stepping forward, "and alone, by your leave."
In neither case, then, is the gesture or rite magical in intent. Dr.
I know poets are accused of inconsistency oh! very unjustly," she added, as Canalis made a gesture of denial; "that alleged defect which comes from the brilliant activity of their minds which commonplace people cannot take into account. I do not believe, however, that a man of genius can invent such irreconcilable conditions and call his invention life.
'Oh, don't exaggerate, Monsieur Valmont, cried Dacre with a gesture of pathetic protest; 'his pocket held one sixpence, two pennies, and a halfpenny. How came you to suspect he was penniless? 'I knew he ordered a case of champagne from the London representative of Camelot Frères, and was refused unless he paid the money down.
She turned from the bed with the gesture of one who could bear no more, and without further words he led her from the room. "I've been prayin' for you, dear Noel," said Peggy importantly, with her arms round her hero's neck. "Have you, though?" said Noel. "I say, little pal, how decent of you! How often?" "Ever so many times," said Peggy. "Every mornin', every evenin', and after grace besides."
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