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"Alice and you must have had a gay time, Mr. Haystoun. Why, you've been seeing each other constantly for months. Have you become great friends?" She exerted herself, for, though he might be a parvenu, he was undeniably handsome. Mr. Stocks explained that Mr. Haystoun had organized wonderful picnic parties. The lady clapped her many-ringed hands, and declared that he must repeat the experiment.
I looked at them now, white, delicate, many-ringed, much more expressive than her face, and I thought them capable of anything. "Here are the names you'll want," she fumbled in the girdle of her gown, brought out a paper and passed it over. "These are the ones who stayed after the reception, went up to my room with me, and helped me change or rather, hindered me."
Glenarm's many-ringed fingers paused over the keys of the piano. Mrs. Gle narm's plump face turned on the stranger with a dawning expression of surprise. "Indeed? I am interested in so many matters. May I ask what this matter is?" The flippant tone of the speaker jarred on Anne. If Mrs.
He would have seen how wonderfully the worms were constructed for the fulfilment of their apportioned position in the animal kingdom; how, without legs, or the peculiar twist of the snake, they crept swiftly over the ground by means of their many-ringed bodies; and also learned that, by their constant tunnelling of the ground, they prevented the water that sank from the surface from lying stagnant amidst the roots of the trees, and thus rotting them, but enabled it to fertilise larger spaces.
Eyrecourt, painted and robed for the morning wafting perfumes as she moved appeared in the study. She looked at the priest, and lifted her many-ringed hands with a gesture of coquettish terror. "Oh, dear me! I had no idea you were here, Father Benwell. I ask ten thousand pardons. Dear and admirable Romayne, you don't look as if you were pleased to see me. Good gracious!
Stanley pointed to the letter with a pipe he had drawn from his jacket pocket. "What do you think of that?" he asked. She took it up in her many-ringed hands and read it judicially. He filled his pipe slowly. "Yes," she said at last, "it is firm and affectionate." "I could have said more." "You seem to have said just what had to be said. It seems to me exactly what is wanted.
Julian took refuge in an answer worthy of the most commonplace man on the face of the civilized earth. "I beg your ladyship to accept my thanks and my excuses," he said. Lady Janet's many-ringed fingers, mechanically stroking the cat in her lap, began to stroke him the wrong way. Lady Janet's inexhaustible patience showed signs of failing her at last. "Mighty civil, I am sure," she said.
She was feeling extraordinarily well that night, so that the sense of her body was a deep delight, a realization of a gentle warmth and strength and elastic firmness. Then she glanced at the cards again, over which her aunt's many-ringed hand played, and then at the rather weak, rather plump face that surveyed its operations. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure.
Tuttle, emerged from the embrace, re-adjusting her hat with many-ringed fingers, inquiring, "How's the folks?" Up lumbered Mr. Tinneray, a large man with a chuckle and pale eyes, who was introduced by the well-known formula, "Mis' Tuttle, Mr. Tinneray, Mr. Tinneray, Mis' Tuttle." The Tinnerays said, "So you brought the bird along, hey?" Then, without warning, all conversation ceased.
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