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He looked back gravely into her laughing eyes. "May I drink your health?" he demanded. "And success to whatever venture has brought you so far from the beaten trail." She set down her glass, making a little moue of pretended disappointment at him with her red mouth.
I could see that the child was putting on all her little airs to attract his attention; now the long lashes swept the cheeks, now they were raised suddenly, disclosing the unexpected blue eyes: the little moccasined feet must be warmed on the fender, the braids must be swept back with an impatient movement of the hand and shoulder, and now and then there was a coquettish arch of the red lips, less than a pout, what she herself would have called 'une p'tite moue. Our surgeon watched this pantomime unmoved.
'Still, you must have learned something about how to wind your skein while you've been working through your various enterprises, said Mrs Gildea. She took up one of Bridget's sketches which were on the table and looked at it thoughtfully. 'This is quite charming, Biddy if only it wasn't too fine for reproduction. The block would cost more than the thing is worth. Biddy made a MOUE. 'Oh, I know.
If you want to set that boy's mind at ease, loan him three hundred thousand dollars to take up the mortgage your father holds on his ranch; then take a new mortgage in your own name to secure the loan. If you're bound to save him in the long run, why keep the poor devil in suspense?" She made a little moue of distaste. "I loathe business.
She clapped her hands. "Oh, let's! I'm tired of boys, anyhow. They know nothing but nonsense." She made a laughing moue at Flatray, and turned to join the railroad builder. The young sheriff arose and trailed to his pony. "My marching orders, I reckon." They walked up the hill together, the great man and the untutored girl.
The affair was not a personal one patently, this was a child who played about the station and amused herself by making faces at everybody who passed the telephone-booth still, the authorities ought not to allow it. People did not come to the station to be insulted. Three seconds later the dusty-faced little girl and her moue were sped utterly from William's mind.
She was forced to come out at last, and before she had gone two steps he was at her side. "I thought you were never going to leave that wretched hole," he said. "Don't call it a wretched hole. It is very clean and nice. I often think that I should like to live in a cottage like that." "With someone who loved you," said Hugo, coming nearer, and gazing into her face. Kitty made a little moue.
I repeated my order in a louder and more angry tone; whereupon he turned his eyes upon me, and said, in a most contemptuous tone, "Chut, ti beque: quitte moue tranquille, ou tende sinon malheur ka rive ou."
Pale Face Harry's eyes had lost their gleam and dulled he gaped reproachfully at Doc Madison. Helena's small mouth drooped downward in a disappointed moue. Only the Flopper evidenced enthusiastic response. "Sure!" he chortled. "Sure t'ing! I see. De old geezer'll have a pile of shekels hid away, an' he lives by his lonesome a mile from de town.
'My name is not Jane, she said, laughing, and making a moue simultaneously. 'He only calls me that to annoy me. I told him I wouldn't answer to it, and I won't. He thinks I shall give in because we've got "company"! But I won't treat you as "company", Mr Loring, and I shall expect you to take my side. What dreadful weather we're having, aren't we? 'Dreadful! I joined in the game. 'Jane!
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