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But, half-baked or no, David rose to it greedily. After a few moments' listening, he pressed up closer to the speaker, his broad shoulders already making themselves felt in a crowd, his eyes beginning to glow with the dissenter's hatred of parsons. In the full tide of discourse, however, the orator was arrested by an indignant sexton, who, coming quickly up the church, laid hold upon him.
If she had her way the Astronef should go back to Washington as she had left it, by means of her own motive force, and so, of course, it came to pass. Even Murgatroyd's grim and homely features seemed irradiated by a glow of what he afterwards thought unholy pride when he once more stood by his levers and heard the familiar signal coming from the conning-tower. "A tenth."
In the golden glow of the autumn sun there came up the stream overlooked by the Sun Rock one day a man, a woman and a child in a canoe. Civilization had done for lovely Joan what it had done for many another wild flower transplanted from the depths of the wilderness. Her cheeks were thin. Her blue eyes had lost their luster.
"That's what you said about Dan's coming home," remarked Georgina from under the shade of her pink parasol. That parasol and the pink dress and the rose-like glow on the happy little face was attracting even more admiration from the passengers than Captain Kidd's tricks.
Rogers has a pure taste in the fine arts, and has cultivated it con amore; Luttrell brings to the study a practised eye and a matured judgment; but Lord John, nurtured from infancy in dwellings, the walls of which glow with the chefs-d'oeuvre of the old masters and the best works of the modern ones, possesses an exquisite tact in recognizing at a glance the finest points in a picture, and reasons on them with all the savoir of a connoisseur and the feeling of an amateur.
"Do you intend, under this view, continuing the search for a will?" Something in the tone of voice touched her unpleasantly. I saw the light in her eyes glow intenser, and her lips arch. "Why not?" she asked, looking at me steadily. I could have given another meaning to my question from the one I intended to convey, had it so pleased me, and thus avoided a probable offence.
It is so long since I have seemed to belong to anyone." "But now you belong to us," said Sheba. He stood silently looking down at her a moment. "Your eyes look just as they did when you were a little child," he said. He lifted her hand and pressed his warm young lips to it. He awoke the next morning with a glow in his heart which should not be new to youth, but was new to him.
He fastened his eyes on her with a deep, earnest look, and the girl turned away her face. She felt embarrassed. "We shall be happy when you have built your house and you dwell in it as my koitza," Okoya whispered. Mitsha cast her eyes to the ground, and a faint glow appeared on her bronzed cheeks.
Her swift change of expression from glow to defensive sombreness admitted its significance. "Nothing is different," she said curtly. "Things are exactly the same." She bent forward and looked at me straight from beneath lowering brows. "If you think just because he and I are good friends now there's any difference, you're making a great mistake. And just you tell Barbara that."
There were green buds and white blossoms all around; the sky showed blue between the waving branches, and the birds were singing. Ann in her pretty petticoat of rose-colored stuff, stepping daintily over the young grass and the flowers, looked and felt like a part of it all. Her dark cheeks had a beautiful red glow on them; her black eyes shone.
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