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Updated: May 8, 2025
Duff read both communications Laura's to the priest was brief and very technical between the business quarters of Ralli Brothers and the Delhi and London Bank, with his feet in the opposite seat of his office-gharry and his forehead puckered by an immediate calculation forward in rupee paper.
"Not an agreeable duty," he pursued, fixing me with dull eyes, "for me to speak; nor will it be, I fancy, for you to hear. But " This exceeded even my utmost fears. "I dare you, zur," said I, desperate for a way of escape, "t' dive from Nestin' Ledge this cold day!" He smiled but 'twas half a sad frown; for at once he puckered his forehead. "You're scared!" I taunted. He shook his head.
"No, it wasn't as bad as that. Knocked me across the floor and into the wall and made me pretty dizzy and faint for a little while. But I managed to feed them. I I'd worked them pretty hard in the timber last week." The man in brown puckered his lips sympathetically, whistling softly while he considered the damage which that flying hoof had done, and the utter simplicity of the explanation.
I feel kinder proud to have the first literary man of our great nation as my Attache. "He is as sensitive as a skinned eel, is Layman, and he winced at that poke at his soft sawder like any thing, and puckered a little about the mouth, but he didn't say nothin', he only bowed.
Many of the men were on their way to work and wore green wreaths, and it put me in thoughts of the 1st of May at home. This crowd opened and buzzed about the pair of us as we went in, with a sudden angry animation. Five chiefs were there; four mighty stately men, the fifth old and puckered.
Now that the slight differences that had arisen between himself and the nurse had been amicably settled, he was in the best of spirits, with his little face puckered in smiles and his blue eyes twinkling with fun as he looked up at the two observing him.
As soon as she was alone she laid back the flannel which lay round the child's head, and examined every inch of its downy poll and puckered face, her warm breath making the tiny lips twitch in sleep as it travelled across them. Then she lifted the little nightgown and looked at the pink feet nestling in their flannel wrapping.
It was business bothers like this about the missing lard which tried her patience and temper. Presently Miles came in, his face red and warm from hard work in the open air, but puckered into a look of worry, which found a reflection on the countenance of Katherine. "We are running out of fish for the dogs, Katherine. Have we been using it too fast, do you think?" he asked. "Surely not.
"I got a letter fer you, ma'am." "A letter? Why, that's strange I didn't know of any one " "Sure, it's fer you, ma'am. It's from Annie Squires." "Annie! Oh! what does she say? Tell me!" Sim had the letter opened now, his face puckered. "Why, nothing very much, ma'am," said he. "I can't exactly see what it says light's rather poor in here just now. But Wid, he read it.
She herself understood it, evidently, for she drew in her puckered skirts and without any words make a place for him beside her as he driftingly approached her, affecting to whistle and keeping his eyes on the foliage overhead. He still looked upward, even in the act of sitting down. "Squirrel or something," he said, feebly, as if in explanation. "Where?" Milla asked. "Up there on a branch."
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