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Chris gave a short yelp of laughter. "Dear Nick," he said, "yes. God bless you indeed! You spoke up well!" "Did I do right, sir," said the other to Sir James, "I could not help it. "Oh! Nick," said the old man, and leaned forward and put his hand on his knee. Nicholas preened himself as he sat there; he would tell Mary how he had bearded his Majesty, and what a diplomatist was her husband.
He lavished one look upon the still frozen Juliana, replaced the cap upon his yellow hair, once more preened his moustache at her, and turned away to meet the oncoming children. And in his glance Juliana retained still the wit to read a gay, cherishing pity.
How she must have laughed in her sleeve all the time, while he pranced and bridled and preened himself under her eyes, blinded to his own idiocy by the flame of a sudden infatuation how she must have laughed! Undoubtedly she had laughed; and, measuring his depth, or his shallowness, had determined to use him to her ends. Why not?
The girls were picking grapes; Mother Ruth enlisted Jack in her service at the pear-trees; Mescal came, too, and caught the golden pears he threw down, and smiled up at him; Wolf was there, and Noddle; Black Bolly pushed her black nose over the fence, and whinnied for apples; the turkeys strutted, the peafowls preened their beautiful plumage, the guinea-hens ran like quail.
Some egrets preened their silken feathers on the bank; sand-hill cranes and two coyotes, fat as hogs and dragging tails weighted with mud, feasted on the lively hermit-crabs, which they extracted from their holes and that was all. The sun, just above the lilac-tinted mountains, hung like a great suspended ball of fire. The cloudless sky glared like a furnace.
She preened herself a little at the phrase. "I returned your overcoat this morning before breakfast; and I didn't even receive a note of thanks for it. I might properly have kept it till my opera cloak came back." "It's never coming back," he answered; "and as for my overcoat, I didn't know it had been returned. I was out all the morning." "In the Row?" she asked, with an undertone of meaning.
So they went up stairs, and Lena babbled and preened herself, while Miss Huntress frowned and pondered on the difficulties of making anything readable out of her small kernel of information. The arrival of a cup of tea, Miss Huntress, being a woman as well as a reporter, found mollifying to the hardness of life.
It preened its wings, and without its stomach flew off to the horses. A loud sigh was heard from under the chaise. It was Kuzmitchov waking up. He quickly raised his head, looked uneasily into the distance, and from that look, which passed by Yegorushka and Deniska without sympathy or interest, it could be seen that his thought on awaking was of the wool and of Varlamov.
He could not raise his head or stir a finger for the trance that held him, and Peroo was smiling vacantly at the lightning. The Bull paused by the shrine, his head lowered to the damp earth. A green Parrot in the branches preened his wet wings and screamed against the thunder as the circle under the tree filled with the shifting shadows of beasts.
"What a beautiful hat!" she cried, in a tone of convincing sincerity. She even clasped her hands to emphasize her admiration. Mrs. McMahon preened herself, and tossed her head; so that feathers and flowers dashed their hues worse than before. "It's nothing so much! It's just some odds and ends they threw together for me!" "Odds and ends!"
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