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Accepting the proffered aid, Rebecca found herself in the midst of a thicket of bushes, many of which were thorny and all of which seemed bent upon repelling nocturnal adventurers. Droop, going ahead, did his best to draw aside the obstinate twigs, and Rebecca followed him with half-averted head, lifting her skirts and walking sidewise. "'Mighty lucky, 'tain't wet weather!" she mumbled.
Her companion smiled without looking at her. "How do you know the sun is shining this morning and the apple-trees are in blossom?" "Why, I can see that." "I saw, too, Sylvia. It's a great thing when you begin to see." The girl observed her companion's half-averted face curiously. "Who lives with you at the farm?" she asked. "My two helpers.
He went on, his eager eyes drinking in the welcome sight, yet scarcely believing what he saw. She had not yet observed him. The profile of her half-averted face was very sweet and feminine; her form was rounded, and her hair fell in long black ringlets to the shoulders. He was in the presence of a young and beautiful woman, a white woman!
I don't like I never saw the woman yet that I " With his eyes on Miss Maggie's flushed, half-averted face, he stopped again abruptly. "Well, I'll be " Even under his breath he did not finish his sentence; but, with a new, quite different expression on his face, he resumed his nervous pacing of the room, throwing now and then a quick glance at Miss Maggie's still averted face.
It was with a feeling of indescribable pleasure and exultation that I was soon able to detect in Maria Bisaccia's beaming, yet half-averted eyes and blushing cheeks when we met, the evidences of a growing attachment for myself, which I did everything in my power to foster and strengthen.
She shrugged her shoulders and stood with half-averted face, looking down at the vineyards which stretched away to the dunes by the river. Her cheeks were oddly flushed. "Your father sent me to say so," continued Loo, "and if he sees that you take no heed he will come himself to learn why." Juliette gave a curt laugh and climbed the declivity toward him. The argument was, it seemed, a sound one.
The place was filled with subordinate railway officials. Don't you hate subordinates, dear Mrs. Carmichael?" Mrs. Carmichael stared, during which process her eyes happened to fall on Beatrice Cary's half-averted face. She was surprised to find that the somewhat thin lips were smiling though not agreeably. "I really don't know what you mean by 'subordinates," Mrs.
And, in obedience to that quiet, Katherine's hand rested passively in the hand of her companion, while she gazed wonderingly at the delicate, half-averted face, serious, lit up by the eagerness of a vital enthusiasm.
It was as if the claimant voices of the East cried out to the blood in his veins: 'You are of us do what you will; go where you will. And all the while his eyes never left Arúna's half-averted face. Sudden and clear from the heights came a ringing peal of bells, as it were the voices of angels answering the wail of devils in torment.
At last the end came in the wet dreariness of the little churchyard, and slowly the mourners departed, until at length were left only the parson, the Master, and Owd Bob. The parson was speaking in rough, short accents, digging nervously at the wet ground. The other, tall and gaunt, his face drawn and half-averted, stood listening.
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