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"Still she should have left him alone." Honoria's indolent, reflective speech took on a peculiar intonation, and she pressed her long-fingered hands together, as though controlling a shudder. "I I'm ashamed to confess it, I do not like him. But, as I told you, just on that account " "Pardon me, on what account?" Miss St.
They were very lady-like hands, long-fingered, and with the orthodox long-oval nails, each with a quarter segment of a pale rising moon at the root hands nearly faultless, and, I suspect, considered by their owner entirely such but a really faultless hand, who has ever seen?
She gave me to understand it was his one object to" The speaker broke off, raised her thin, long-fingered hands to her forehead. "I don't know," she said, "but really I feel perhaps, darling, it is better to warn you. She implied oh! she did it very cleverly, really, in a way charmingly but she implied that things had gone very hard with Mr. Wace that winter at St.
One of the Martians picked up one of the corpses, and the whole group moved away toward the lowland, the Martian carrying the body easily with one long-fingered hand. Wisps of sandy dust trailed them as they dwindled and slowly vanished. The second body lay where they had left it. A gaping wound in its throat seemed to mock her.
Doris, the dark-haired, red-cheeked, full-contoured lass, was plainly much taken with Agathemer and he with her; I always had a weakness for red-headed girls and felt genuinely pleased that Nebris, her long-limbed, long-fingered, pale-skinned, blurred, bleached comrade seemed equally taken with me.
"You say and do the most charming things that have ever been said and done." He bent over the long-fingered hand. His pride begged him not to let her see the hunger and pain that were in his eyes. "Going out?" she asked. Martin gave a careless glance at one of B. C. Koekkoek's inimitable Dutch interiors that hung between two pieces of Flemish tapestry.
And he thought of other things, of Sue reading papers culled out of books before the fallen women in the little State Street hall, of Tom Edwards with his new wife and his little watery eyes, of Morrison and the long-fingered socialist fighting over words at his table.
The old man looked at her flowing hair, as it lay red over the black shawl at her supple, long-fingered hand, as it slid down the banisters at the smooth, seductive grace of every movement that took her further and further away from him. "The night will go quickly," he said to himself, as she passed from his view; "I shall dream of her till the morning comes!"
An impressive and outstanding figure was the man Potts designated. Stocky, sinister of eye and with a mouth whose half-sardonic smile drew the lips a little out of line, he combed his thick black hair now and then with delicate, long-fingered hands. They had a deftness and a lightning energy, those fingers with their perfectly groomed nails, which boded little good to his opponents.
"Hold my hand, child, and think," she said at last, "mayhap it may come to thee then. The touch of kinship has power, and if I do not mistake me, there is that in thy blood that is in mine royalty!" So she clasped Roy's slim long-fingered hand and held it tight, and the boy's face changed, his eyes grew startled, he shivered slightly. "Yea!" he said, "now I do remember.
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