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There was an absence of anything girl-like in her fine, ivory-pale face, somehow, though it was a young face and a handsome face, at whose fine lines and clear contour even a connoisseur could not have caviled. Its long almond-shaped, agate-gray eyes, black-fringed and lustrous as they were, still were silent eyes they did not speak even to Denis Oglethorpe.
The ivory-pale, mutely-suffering face against the background of whitewashed wall flashed back upon his memory, in a circle of dazzling light. He saw her again, leaning against the door of the chapel as he told her the cruel news. He heard her saying: "Are you at liberty to tell me the date of Captain Mildare's death?
My plans had been perfected, and when the opportunity came I seized it, with the resolution of a man for whom there was only one alternative to liberty death. Jim never took his eyes from Ryder's; he sat as if fascinated by the ivory-pale face of his companion. 'I had one friend in Hobart Town, a freed convict named Wainewright. He provided me with the clothes of a gentleman.
M. de Stael called his little brother, Alphonse Rocca, to introduce him to us; he is a pleasing, gentle-looking, ivory-pale boy with dark-blue eyes, not the least like Madame de Stael. M. de Stael speaks English perfectly, and with the air of an Englishman of fashion. After our walk he proposed our going on the lake and we rowed for about an hour.
Love led to marriage; this could not lead to marriage, except through the Divorce Court. And suddenly the Colonel had a vision of his dead brother Lindsay, Olive's father, standing there in the dark, with his grave, clear-cut, ivory-pale face, under the black hair supposed to be derived from a French ancestress who had escaped from the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
Derringham now only looked a pale, but very interesting invalid, as he lay there with a black silk handkerchief tied round his head. "Then I'll go," said Mrs. Cricklander and, instead of sending the message with her daily flowers, she wrote a tiny note. I can't bear it any longer I must come! Arabella Clinker watched his face as he read this, and saw a flush grow in his ivory-pale skin. "Oh!
The sudden energy with which this was said was indescribable. The Contessa's countenance, usually so ivory-pale, shone with a sort of reflection as if of light within, her eyes blazed, her smile gave place to a seriousness which was almost indignation.
And then, with the effrontery of youth in love, he deliberately took the almost empty glass from which Ortensia had drunk, poured a little into it from the other, and drank out of it with a look of undisguised gratitude on his handsome face. Thereupon a little colour came to Ortensia's ivory-pale cheek, and Pina smiled pleasantly.
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