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"You must be a pair of very simple men," said landlord Coyne, half-closing his eyes again, "if you reckoned that forty pound would rent a place like this without some drawbacks. Well, the drawbacks is ghosts. Four of 'em, and all females." "Tell us about 'em, sir," requested Mr. Jope, dropping into his seat.
The airy smile upon Hope Wayne's face faded instantly. The blood rushed to her hair. But she did not turn her eyes, nor say a word. The moment she felt she could trust her voice, she asked, gravely, without looking at Arthur, "What is it?" "It is Diana and Endymion," replied the painter. She looked at it for a long time, half-closing her eyes, which clung to the face of Endymion.
"I think not, thank you," she replied, compressing her lips to keep back the intolerable pain, and half-closing her eyes to show the fine lashes. Declining the proffered help, she extricated her foot, picked up her autumn branches, and turned away. She was intensely averse to anything that could be construed as a flirtation, even of the mildest, he could certainly see that.
She stood by the mantle, queen-like so the representatives from several States remarked and all the evening fresh comers offered homage. "Ma foi!" said the old Brazilian ambassador, as he gazed at her through his eye-glass, and smacked his lips. "Tiens!" responded the sexagenarian representative from Chili, half-closing one eye.
Her pale lips were somewhat too full, her shoulders perhaps too square, her hands rather too large, but, for all that, anyone seeing her as she flitted gracefully about the drawing room, bending from her slender waist to sniff at the flowers with a smile on her lips, or arranging some Chinese vase, or quickly readjusting her glossy hair before the looking-glass, half-closing her wonderful eyes, anyone would have declared that there could not be a more fascinating creature.
Before him lay the attractive prospect of a substantial haul, which would call for some little exertion and a great deal of dexterity; Chelkash was confident that he had plenty of the latter, and, half-closing his eyes, dreamed of how he would indulge to~morrow morning when the business would be over and the notes would be rustling in his pocket.
For a few moments they lay like corpses on the blue swelling round of the water looking straight through infinite distance into the thin faint vapor of the sky. "Yes, I see what you mean." "We might be clouds, almost, mightn't we?" with a slow following note of laughter. Ted looked deeper into the sky, half-closing his eyelids.
"We ran up against each other in the doorway." "And he bowed to you like this?" She drew a long face, and half-closing her eyes, quickly transformed her expression, folded her hands, and Vronsky suddenly saw in her beautiful face the very expression with which Alexey Alexandrovitch had bowed to him.
"Indeed, he is a man worthy of the greatest respect. And how thoroughly he performs his duty according to his lights! Would that we had more like him!" "And the tactfulness with which he greets every one!" added Manilov, smiling, and half-closing his eyes, like a cat which is being tickled behind the ears. "Quite so," assented Chichikov.
"But, why, if this promise was so hateful to you, did you not break it before?" asked Georgiana. "I had not the courage," Emilia stooped her head to confess; "and besides," she added, curiously half-closing her eyelids, as one does to look on a minute object, "I could not see through it before." "If," suggested Georgiana, "you break your word, you release him from his."
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