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Deane rose and took down the square black bottle and the diminutive wine-glass beside it. Half-filling the latter, a thimble-full in verity, he drank it in two or three delicate little sips, puckering his large under-lip to receive them.
All else in the stables was deadly quiet; the shrubberies around were still; and in the hushed house the master slept. But on the edge of his wooden chair in the silence of his pantry the old manservant read, "This bird is a voracious feeder," and he paused, blinking his eyes and nervously puckering his lips, for he had partially understood.... Mrs. Pendyce was crossing the fields.
"Not much," a fellow has to humour the weather for the weather won't humour him. "But by Jove! its eight o'clock," said Guy, looking at his watch, "and I'll be puckering my patrician brow to invent an excuse for this delay. So 'ta-ta." "Good night," Honor said in a low voice, extending her hand as Guy approached the fire to light his cigar.
"Look," she would say, puckering up her face. And to save from soilure the dainty fabric she was working at, I would rise and wipe her fingers with my handkerchief; whereupon she would coo out the sweetest "thank you," in the world, and perhaps hold up a diminutive garment. "Isn't it pretty?"
Blyth raised her eyes from the prints directly, and smiled as she saw the girl puckering up her fresh, rosy face into a childish imitation of old age, bending her light figure gravely in a succession of formal bows, and kissing her hand several times with extreme suavity and deliberation. These signs were meant to indicate Mrs.
Well, he died, and I was one of the bearers at the funeral, with seven others of his old friends; and when the minister was picturing the virtues of the deceased which he never possessed, one of the bouquets on the coffin rolled off on the floor, and I thought of what my friend had said about calling the minister down, and in my imagination I could see the old fellow raising up in the coffin and stuttering, and puckering up his face there on that solemn occasion, and for about ten seconds it seemed as though I would split with laughter; but I held it in, and we got the good old genius buried all right, but it was a terrible strain on my vest buttons," and the old smoker lighted another match on his trousers and started the pipe, which had grown cold as he talked of the stuttering remains.
The shadows of his ancient, wrinkled face changed as he read, raising his eyebrows and puckering his mouth. He handed the unfolded paper to Mr. Baron Garrow, then with one wrinkled finger beckoned the Attorney-General to him. The third judge was still asleep. "What the devil's this?" the turnkey beside me said to his companion.
Adrian lifted and let fall the stupid inanimate limbs of the gone wretch, puckering his mouth queerly. "You were all reasonable and proper, ma'am. The principal male performer, then, is my cousin, Mr. Feverel? He was married by you, this morning, by licence at your parish church, and came here, and ate a hearty breakfast, and left intoxicated." Mrs. Berry flew out. "He never drink a drop, sir.
She's been repressed and held back so long, that when she did let loose, it was just like cutting the puckering string of a bunched-up ruffle she flew in all directions, and there was no holding her back anywhere; and I suppose she has been a bit foolish and extravagant in the things she's asked for. Poor dear, though, she did get one setback." "What do you mean?"
And another thing: if you hear any noise cover up your head and make Jane Ryder cover hers." "I'm sure I don't know what to make of you," she said, puckering her forehead as she stood in the door. "But I think I know what to make of you and your daughter," I replied, with a laugh. "Above all things, don't misjudge us," and with that she was gone, closing the door behind her.
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