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Soon they went down to supper, and Mavis put out a shy hand to Marjorie's mother, a kind-eyed, smiling woman in black. And Gray, too, was there, watching the little mountain girl and smiling encouragement whenever he met her eyes.
But Dominic, his horizon still bounded by the world of school, greedy of distinction both in learning and in games, away all day and eagerly, if somewhat sleepily, busy over the preparation of lessons at night, was very far from realising that. Poor voluble kind-eyed Pascal he mourned with all his heart; yet the months of his father's absence accumulated into years almost unnoticed.
There was a tiger in papier-mache on the glass case that covered the low counter a grave, kind-eyed tiger that waggled his head in a methodical manner; there were several crystal spheres, a china hand holding magic cards, a stock of magic fish-bowls in various sizes, and an immodest magic hat that shamelessly displayed its springs.
Then he took off his hat with an enormous sweep to the others, and turned. "Humph! posing rather prettily this time!" muttered the Parson, watching kind-eyed. On the top of the wain, clear against the sky, a tall figure now rose, and gathered the rope-reins in his hand. The men at the leader's head jumped aside. Up she went, sky-high. The coachman handled her as a mother handles a wilful child.
The next moment Pollyanna heard voices, and very soon their owners appeared three men carrying a stretcher and various other articles. The tallest of the party a smooth-shaven, kind-eyed man whom Pollyanna knew by sight as "Dr. Chilton" advanced cheerily. "Well, my little lady, playing nurse?" "Oh, no, sir," smiled Pollyanna. "I've only held his head I haven't given him a mite of medicine.
All those men and women whom she had seen in a thousand unpremeditated acts, those tired-faced, kind-eyed, unlettered fathers and mothers were not breathing poisoned air, were not harboring in their simple lives a ghastly devouring wild-beast.
She was a kind-eyed Hanoverian, homely and by no means brilliantly clever, but there was something in her unselfishness and in her unassuming humility that won Erica's heart. She never would hear a word against the fraulein. "Why do you care so much for Fraulein Sonnenthal?" she was often asked. "She seems uninteresting and dull to us."
The poor girl looked round her in amazement at the pretty spacious room, as she spread her hands, knotted and coarsened by work, to the blaze. Elizabeth held her sickly babe, rocking it and crooning to it, while upstairs one of kind-eyed Cumberland women was getting a warm bath ready, and lighting a fire in the guest-room. "How old is it?" she asked. "Thirteen months."
There was no doubt about it, as he walked Groener was limping noticeably on his left foot! Dr. Duprat was waiting for them in his laboratory, absorbed in recording the results of his latest experiments. A kind-eyed, grave-faced man was this, who, for all his modesty, was famous over Europe as a brilliant worker in psychological criminology.
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