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Moreover he had his revenge, for at bottom the 65th was itself tender-hearted, not to say sentimental. It believed in lost loves and lost blossoms, muslin dresses, and golden chains, cypress shades and jasmine flowers, "And the one bird singing alone to his nest, And the one star over the tower." The 65th sighed and propped its chin on its hand. Presently the 65th grew misty-eyed.
He wondered at the number of emotions and events that had been crowded into such little spaces. Elfin thoughts must have exaggerated and enlarged everything, he said. It seemed, then, that there was bitter justice in the speeches of the gaunt and bronzed veterans. He veiled a glance of disdain at his fellows who strewed the ground, choking with dust, red from perspiration, misty-eyed, disheveled.
"The Bank of California has failed," he said before the younger man could ask a question. "It will never reopen its doors." "I I simply can't believe it!" After a stunned silence Benito spoke. He laid a hand on the banker's shoulder. "All I have is at your service, Ralston." "Thank you ... but it isn't any use." He looked up misty-eyed.
Her father and her brothers loved her, but the heart of Be-be, her mother, seemed wrapped round and about that misty-eyed child. "'I love you, the mother would say many times a day, as she caught the girl-child in her arms. 'And I love you, the girl-child would answer, resting for a moment against the warm shoulder.
Finally its note steadied and it wailed and wailed and wailed. "That's the alarm," exclaimed Sally. She was still misty-eyed. "Everybody out of the Shed. Come on, Joe." They started back the way they'd come in. And Sally looked up at Joe and grinned suddenly.
Rick marveled at how little they really knew about their friend. He certainly excelled at keeping his mouth shut. Probably he was a reserve officer. "I think you look handsome in it," Barby said dreamily. The boys had kidded her before about getting all misty-eyed when Steve showed up. Actually, Steve was a very handsome young man, so Barby's mild crush was understandable.
The little woman greeted her cordially, gave misty-eyed thanks for the beautiful plant, and also for Billy's kind thoughtfulness Friday afternoon. From that she was very skilfully led to talk more of the daughter; and soon Billy was getting just the information she wanted information concerning the character, aims, and daily life of Alice Greggory.
Misty-eyed, not unhappy, with her beauty still a startling fact, Joan mused away long hours at the feet of her granite friends through the waning splendors of many an autumn noon. Then, within the brief space of two weeks, a period of weather almost unexampled in the memory of the oldest agriculturists drew to its close.
She looked just the same, very modish, in some brand-new New York clothes, I suppose. "Toots!" she exclaimed, and put both arms about me and kissed me. Then to cover up a little sign of mistiness in her eyes that would show, she exclaimed, "You're just as good-looking as ever. I declare you are!" "So are you, too, Edith!" I said, misty-eyed, too, for some reason.
Webber making ridiculous noises and tossing his dried fruit around like a caricature of somebody sowing, Paula with her brisk professionalism all dissolved in misty-eyed fondness, himself an alien in this time and place, and these perfectly normal-appearing people behaving like orang-utans with their fur shaved off. He started to laugh and then thought better of it.
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