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He clasped them yet, and trembled still, as from fear. "Don't let me fall! Don't let me fall" the incessant burden of his cry. The paroxysm passed. They wiped his brow, and stood looking at him; Wilson with a pursed up mouth, and a peculiar expression of face. She put a spoonful of restorative jelly between his lips, and he swallowed it, but shook his head when she would have given him another.
"Well, that's possible; but one doesn't easily give up good servants. By the way, I learn from Miss Smith that the boy, Bles Alwyn, in whom Zora was so interested, is a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington." "Indeed! I'm going to Washington this winter; I'll look him over and see if he's worth Zora which I greatly doubt." Mrs. Cresswell pursed her lips and changed the subject.
Tell me, dear be faithful! are you as much shocked at the change in me?" Peggy looked up archly, and met Rob's deep, earnest gaze. She put down the cat, rose suddenly, and thrust her hand through Esther's arm. Her cheeks were very pink, her eyes astonishingly bright. Esther looked at her critically, and pursed up her lips in disapproving fashion.
Prohack read it, frowned, and pursed his judicial lips. "Read it, my dear," he said to Eve. Eve read that Messrs. Doy and Doy found themselves unable, after a preliminary inspection, which owing to their instructions to be speedy had not been absolutely exhaustive, to certify the drains of the noble mansion.
Mat lifted a dull eye to the blue. "Yes," he said. "I put a sovereign in the plate. That should square the account, de we, accordin' to my reckonin'." He pursed his lips firmly, almost defiantly, as he looked the heavens in the face. A sudden shyness fell on the little group. Then Boy went to her mother, lifted the old lady's veil, and kissed her. "Mother," she said. Mrs.
"I will be ready immediately, Mrs. Maxwell," said the lawyer, in a smoothly conclusive voice which abashed her. She stood silently by the door until he was ready. He took her black bag peremptorily, and they went side by side down the street. He held his head well back, his lips were still tightly pursed, and he swung his cane with asperity.
Dawes, who smiled intelligence with her eyes, and knowingly pursed up her mouth until Mrs. Goodenough had finished her tale. Then she said demurely, 'I suppose you mean Mr. Preston and Miss Gibson? 'Why, who told you? said Mrs. Goodenough, turning round upon her in surprise. 'You can't say as I did.
Going out on deck he had gloated upon his unconscious victim with such a sinister roll of his eyes, such a queerly pursed mouth, that Jasper could not help smiling. And the lieutenant had gone on the bridge, saying to himself: "You wait! I shall spoil the taste of those sweet kisses for you. When you hear of Lieutenant Heemskirk in the future that name won't bring a smile on your lips, I swear.
Reine pursed up her lips, but made no reply. "She has too many good qualities and virtues for people to believe anything he says." "Oh, as to that, there are hypocrites among the Parisian ladies as well as elsewhere," said the young girl, with a sour look. "Bless me!" thought Marillac, "we have it now. I'd wager my last franc that I'll loosen her tongue."
Sir James, who was a Catholic, and scrupulous in speech, pursed his lips slightly, drummed on the table with his fingers, and finally rose without reply, and betook himself to the Times. Miss Drake meanwhile had been carried off to play billiards at the farther end of the hall by the young men of the party.
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