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She may pass him some day on the street and will not know him, and he will not know her, but she will grow to be very fond and to be very grateful to the simple, kind-hearted old people who will have cared for her when she was a little girl." The child in his arms stirred, shivered slightly, and awoke. The two men watched her breathlessly, with silent intentness.
Her sparkling eyes are fixed on the eyes of her one visitor with an intentness and animation of interest which should be very fascinating.
Umslopogaas listened to every syllable with a curious intentness, and then asked me to repeat it all again, which I did. "Lousta! Monazi!" he said slowly. "Well, you heard those names to-day, did you not, White Man? And you heard certain things from the lips of this Monazi who was angry, that give colour to that talk of the Opener-of-Roads.
The colonel studied his wall-map with intentness, and put a forefinger on the rd Brigade gun positions. A runner came in from C Battery, with whom we had had no communication for nearly two hours. The Huns seemed to know their position, and had put over a regular fusilade of 4·2's and 5·9's and gas-shells.
And yet when she came down to the parlour, though bending herself with nervous intentness to the work she had to do, her fingers and her heart were only stayed in their trembling by some of the happy assurances she had been fleeing to Assurances, not, indeed, that her plans should meet with success, but that they should have the issue best for them.
There was a feminine delicacy about every feature of his face, unusual in boys who ordinarily belong to the station he was filling. His eyes, too, had a softer expression, and his brow was broader and fairer. The intentness with which I looked at him, caused him to look at me as intently. What thoughts were awakened in his mind I could not tell.
Tired and discouraged, badly nourished, badly housed working under conditions little favourable to play of the fancy or intentness of the mind then was the time, Gissing found, to take down Forster and read read about Charles Dickens.
A general grave affability of her eyes and smiles was taken for quiet pleasure in the scene. Her fitful intentness of look when conversing with the older ladies told of the mind within at work upon what they said, and she was careful that plain dialogue should make her comprehensible to them.
Suddenly, I passed from abstraction to intentness; for there, in its standing place, I made out a long undulation, rounded off with the heavy dust. Yet it was not so much hidden, but that I could tell what had caused it. I knew and shivered at the knowledge that it was a human body, ages-dead, lying there, beneath the place where I had slept.
Isabella was standing where they had parted, gazing at her with the same intentness which had been so noticeable during their conversation; but now, she waved a friendly hand, and then she too turned and walked away up the hill. "What does she know about it all, I wonder?" said the girl to herself. "How much could she tell me of the details I long to know?
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