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Updated: June 22, 2025
I have seen you linger near a honeysuckle in full bloom and question the blossoms in your questioning way you who are always wishing to probe the heart of things, to drain out of them the red drop of their significance. But, gray-eyed querist of actuality, those fragrant trumpets could blow to your ear no message about their origin.
Haven't you guessed by this time who was the particular gray-eyed girl I had in mind?" "Of course I have; it was Mabel, wasn't it?" "Mabel! Oh, hang Mabel! Jane, it was you." "Me! Why, Decatur Brown!" Either surprise or indignation rang in her tone. He concluded that it must be the latter. "Oh, well," he said, dejectedly, "I had no right to suppose that you'd like it.
Spring came, and still that most devoted of lovers, Sir Everard Kingsland, lingered in Paris, near his gray-eyed divinity. His life was no dull one in the gayest capital of Europe. He had hosts of friends, the purse of Fortunatus, the youth and beauty of a demi-god.
"Really, I didn't mean for you to try," she explained in swift penitence. "I don't think you're afraid!" Ben opened and closed the gate silently. "Please don't do it," pleaded the girl. "You'll be hurt!" But for all the effect her petition had, she might as well have asked the sun to cease shining. Nothing could stop that gray-eyed boy.
As for my employees, I see them chiefly through their work." "Then you don't really know them," she announced. "Possibly, but I know their results. It sounds a little inhuman, doesn't it?" "I think I understand." Elsie was tempted to probe this gray-eyed man about Belding, but presently gave it up.
She was very tall, one of those cool, gray-eyed, ivory-skinned brunettes who always remind the beholder of white lilies blooming in the dark. Her lips were full, faintly pinkly purple, and affirmative, not beseeching.
You are well started, Andrew. Your father's and his partner's estate will give you an income of $10,000. What will you do?" "I have no idea whatever. My mind is not ready for business. My serious experience has been followed by a sort of stupor an inquiry, a detached relation to everything." "Let it be so awhile," answered the strong, gray-eyed man. "Such rests are often medicine, as sleep is.
Bravery was blazing in her glorious brown eyes, and firmness came upon her manner as she stepped inside, closed the door, and silently confronted the detective. The man she was studying was a fine-looking, clean-cut fellow, gray-eyed, smooth-shaven, with thick brown hair, and with a gentleman-athlete air that made him distinctly attractive.
I want you to believe, Jane, that when I admitted my preference for gray eyes and and all that, I was thinking of one gray-eyed girl in particular. Can you believe that?" "Oh, I did from the very first; that is, I did as soon as Aunt Judith " "Never mind about Aunt Judith," interrupted Decatur, firmly. "We will get to her in time. We are talking now about that interview.
It was the thought of what those uncounted thousands of gray-eyed girls must conceive as his attitude towards them that hurt. Why, it was almost as though he had put a matrimonial advertisement in the newspapers. When he pictured himself looked upon as assuming to be a connoisseur of a certain type of femininity he felt as keenly disgraced as if he had set himself up for an Apollo.
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