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The dresses of three women two young and pretty, and one, handsome, large, of mature age seemed to fill completely the shallow body of the carriage. The fourth face was that of a man, heavy lidded, distinguished and sallow, with a somber, thick, iron-gray imperial and mustaches, which somehow had the air of solid appendages. His Excellency
But from between her parted lips lips of almost an Egyptian fulness her breath came slow and regular, and her eyes, heavy lidded, slanting upwards toward the temples, perplexing, oriental, were closed. She was asleep. From out this life of flowers, this world of colour, this atmosphere oppressive with perfume, this darkness clogged and cloyed, and thickened with sweet odours, she came to him.
How strange, too; for in the pure- lidded eyes he seemed to see the soft light of reason not entirely quenched. Their eyes encountered, lingered; and the beauty of her gaze seemed to stir him to the very wellspring of compassion. "Would it make you any happier to believe to know," he added hastily, "that you and I were married?" "Y-yes, I think so." "Would you be quite happy to believe it?"
"But never mind Baudelaire," he continued, and his eyes, heavily lidded and shrouded by those big bushy eyebrows which seem to sprout almost with ardent violence as the body grows old, looked at her with melting kindness. "What have you been doing, my dear? The old dog wants to know. There is something on your mind, isn't there?"
Of still another type is the pitcher plant, or side-saddle flower, which flaunts its deep purple petals in June in many a peat-bog from Canada southward to Louisiana and Florida. Its leaves develop themselves into lidded cups, half-filled with sweetish juice, which first lures a fly or ant, then makes him tipsy, and then despatches him.
"I never saw people who looked so absolutely content," fretfully murmured one swathed mummy in a deck chair to another, as the pair passed them, on the tenth round of a long tramp, one gray morning when the wind was more than ordinarily chill. The speaker's black eyes, heavily lidded in a pale, discontented face, followed the Craigs out of sight as she spoke.
They were close set, narrow lidded, cunning, piggy little eyes that caused unrest to look upon. At the sight of Harrison Smith he removed his feet from the mantelpiece and extended an open armed welcome. "Welcome and thrice welcome, my dear brother," he intoned in an admirable imitation of the accepted ecclesiastical method. "I rejoice indeed to observe that you are now in Holy Orders."
The whole room was full of a stirring, wakening life, of the crackling straw fire, of the steaming rice, all white and separate-kerneled in its great, shallow, black iron kettles lidded with those heavy hand-made wooden lids while the boiling tea water hissed, and spat out a snake of white steam.
Nose, chin, brow, the poising of the head on the shoulders, the large blue eyes, lidded and set with a Greek perfection, the delicacy of the lean, slightly hollow cheeks, combined with the astonishing beauty and strength of the head, crowned with ambrosial curls these possessions, together with others, had so far made life an easy and triumphant business for their owner.
"This is the way you put down a stroke like that for every dozen, and one like that for a barge. Do you see?" "Yes, sir," I said, "I can do that; but when am I to put down a barge?" "When it's full, of course, and covered in lidded up." "But shall we fill a barge to-night, sir?" "Well, I hope so a good many," said Old Brownsmith. "Will he go down to the river with me to show me where, sir?"
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