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But the bright eyes opened again and fixed themselves upon her with all their old, gay inscrutability. "Not yet," said Crailey. "Miss Carewe, may I tell you that I am sorry I could not have known you sooner? Perhaps you might have liked me for Fanchon's sake I know you care for her." "I do I do!" she faltered. "I love her, and ah! I do like you, Mr.
She had never deluded herself into imagining the consummation of her wish imminent, she had frankly acknowledged to herself that his inscrutability was impenetrable, and now hope seemed almost extinguished. She realized it with a feeling of helplessness. And yet she had a curious impulse, an inner conviction that urged with a peremptoriness that over-rode subterfuge.
"I must go," she repeated; her rich red lips then closed definitely. "Have you a motor here?" Edward Henry asked. "No." "Then if I may I'll see you home." "You may," she said, gazing full at him. Whereby he was somewhat startled and put out of countenance. "Are we friends?" he asked roguishly. "I hope so," she said, with no diminution of her inscrutability.
Bertram struggling to compose his face, Eleanor wearing her old air of sweet inscrutability, they faced the quick, perceiving glance of Kate Waddington who sat pouring tea from the crack between two shell bowls. Eleanor settled herself on the teak-wood stool. "You must come out on the balcony before we go," she cried. "I never saw the city lights so wonderful."
If she might set them to quarrelling over her, to send a snarling man at a snarling man's throat.... Her hands dropped to her sides, and were clenched; she lifted her chin; with all that strength that lay in the innermost soul of Gloria King she strove to drive her great fear out of her eyes, to hide it from their wolfish regard, to summon up in its stead a mocking inscrutability.
'Leeze majestas' in all its dark incomprehensibility had fallen like a weight upon the tavern company, and effectually checked any further conversation. It was one of those successful efforts of Mr. Netlips, which, by its ponderous vagueness and inscrutability, produced an overwhelming effect. There was nothing to be said after it.
"Well, you'll be in plenty more of them," he exulted. "Sit down beside the fire, and get warm yourself." She obeyed, and he took the chair at her side, his eyes on her face. As usual, she was beyond him; and despite her exclamations of surprise, of appreciation and pleasure she maintained the outward poise, the inscrutability that summed up for him her uniqueness in the world of woman.
It was this very inscrutability of his that had first waked in her the desire to see him among her retinue of slaves. She went forward slowly, striving to attain at least a semblance of composure. At first it seemed that he would wait for her where he was; then unexpectedly he moved to meet her. He took her hand into his own, and she shrank a little involuntarily. His touch unnerved her.
And I know that, really, you're far too tender-hearted to sacrifice a fly." Elisabeth regarded him oddly. "You don't know me, Geoffrey," she said very slowly. "No man knows a woman, really not all her thoughts." And had Major Durward, honest fellow, realized the volcanic force of passion hidden behind the tense inscrutability of his wife's lovely face, he would have been utterly confounded.
Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the police came very unexpectedly into the house, and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the premises. Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever. The officers bade me accompany them in their search. They left no nook or corner unexplored.
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