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She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, with pink-daubed scent-bottles and a petticoated pin-cushion on a marble slab uncomfortably like a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water-pitcher and bowl.
And Grundy's loose, lean, knuckly affair Grundy the terror! the little wrinkles and the thumb! Only it ought to hold all the others together in a slightly disturbing squeeze....Like Rodin's great Hand you know the thing!" I forget how many days intervened between that last breaking off of our engagement and Marion's surrender.
'Of course, miss, if I'm wrong Her knuckly hand slid down from the brass bar, and she came round to the side of the bed with an unmistakable eagerness in her face. 'If you're going to get married, I don't see as I could leave ye. The lady's lips twitched with an instant's silent laughter, but there was something else than laughter in her eyes.
She was a tall, raw-boned, lean woman, with unmanageable hair which would not stay crimped, a hatchet face, too much nose and too little chin, a stringy neck, very large, red, knuckly hands and big flat feet. She had a mania for economy and close bargains, seemed to regard her husband as an easy mark for swindlers and to be certain that he had been cheated when he bought me.
Like all the trail in the Museum Country it covered a vast tract of country in a very little while, so that it was no time at all before they came out among high, pine-covered swells, that broke along the watercourses into knuckly granite headlands.
Miss Van Tuyn was rather surprised by the question. Garstin was not in the habit of asking other people's opinions about his work. "It's rather difficult to say," she said, with some hesitation. "That means you think it's rotten." "No. But it isn't finished and I don't know." "Well, I hate it." He turned away, sat down on a divan, and let his big knuckly hands drop down between his knees.
But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corder, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
Mrs. de Tracy actually walked a few steps to meet him, with a greeting less frigid than usual. "I'm glad to see you, Mark," said she. "Bates said you preferred to walk from the station." Mark turned his kind eyes on Miss Smeardon, and held her knuckly hand in his own almost tenderly.
Long lean knuckly hands pointing and gesticulating! 'They're still thinking of things thinking of things! It's dreadful. They get it out of books. I can't imagine where they get it! I must watch! There're people over there whispering! Nobody ought to whisper! There's something suggestive in the mere act! Then, pictures! In the museum things too dreadful for words.
'The women in America, when they came into the store, they said, "Where is John, where is John?" Yes, they liked me. And he laughed again, glancing with vague, warm blue eyes, very shy, very coiled upon himself with sensitiveness. He had managed a store in America, in a smallish town. I glanced at his reddish, smooth, rather knuckly hands, and thin wrists in the frayed cuff.
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