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He summoned up a smile and advanced. "Good evening, Miss Halley," he said, striving to speak genially for of all of his wife's friends he liked Margaret Halley the best. "Were you expecting to find Rita at home?" The girl's expression was vaguely troubled. She had the clear complexion and bright eyes of perfect health, but to-night her eyes seemed over-bright, whilst her face was slightly pale.
On the third day, she asked in a whisper for Jim, but told them first to wash his face and hands with salt water. So the long-legged, bright-eyed boy came and sat by his mother's bed and held her hot hands. As he gazed on her over-bright eyes, she said softly: "My darling, you'll soon be alone, without friend or kith or kin. This place will no longer be your home. God only knows where you'll go.
Alas! those eyes, so grave, so luminous, so steadfast: "Eyes not down-dropt, not over-bright, but fed With the clear-pointed flame of chastity," eyes wherein dwelt "thought folded over thought," what painter need ever hope to copy them? And still she never dreamed how dear she had grown to me. She never knew how the very air seemed purer to me because she breathed it.
In open order, they went forward quietly, slowly; they might come upon 'Kep' Queen's outpost at any turn. Now and then they came in sight of one another. Each time Brunner saw that the old man was edging closer to his son. Still there was no word spoken only a grim old man's gray eyes were fixed upon a young man's shifting, over-bright eyes, and the young man moved on, cautiously.
The storm had abated as I got to the foot of his stair only a distant rolling of thunder. "Then, out of the shadows it was quite dark into the flickering light of the lamp came somebody all muffled up. I started horribly. It was a girl, quite a pretty girl, too, but very pale, and with over-bright eyes.
You were quite right" smiling briefly "when you said I should feel everything more to-day than yesterday. Do keep people away from me, there's a good soul." Kitty gave her a searching glance. But for two spots of feverishly vivid colour in her cheeks, the girl's face was very pale, and her eyes over-bright, with heavy shadows underlying them. "Very well," she said kindly.
He had always taken 'Abraham Wigmore' for a youth of nineteen or so, some not over-bright, but plodding and earnest clerk or counter-man in the little Gloucestershire town from which the correspondent wrote; it astonished him to see this mature and most respectable person. They talked on. Mr.
He had also been pleased by his pluck; hence the pleasant expression of his eyes. He was a little touched, too, by the unmistakable admiration in the over-bright blue regard. Urquhart was not unused to admiration; but here was something very whole-hearted and rather pleasing. Margerison seemed rather a nice little kid.
It came about in this way: not many days after being taken into the Nautical Almanac Office I wanted a book from the university library, and asked a not over-bright old gentleman in the office what formalities were necessary in order to borrow it. "Just go over and tell them you want it for the Nautical Almanac."
He said he had probably not been an over-bright horse to start with, and had been made more dull by cruel usage. As for the Englishman, the master of these animals, a very strange thing happened to him. He came to a terrible end, but for a long time no one knew anything about it. Mr. Wood and Mr.
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