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And," she added, getting back of the coffee-pot which looked new "the rest of my soul is one great big blob of question-marks. If you can eat and talk at the same time, you may tell me what this frantic industry is all about. If you can't, I'll have to wait till after dinner; not even my curiosity is going to punish my poor tummy any longer."
When, on Jack stepping aside and taking an unobtrusive front seat, the aged professor mounted the platform and solemnly surveyed his audience, titters, then a burst of laughter swept over the school-room. The long yellow robe was covered with grotesque caricatures of cats, frogs, dogs, cranes and turtles, interspersed with great black question-marks.
Twice during the journey to Pnom-Penh I saw tracks of elephant herds on the road it looked as though a fleet of whippet tanks had passed. Nevertheless, I should have put mental question-marks after some of the big game stories I heard while I was in Indo-China had I not been convinced of the credibility of those who told them.
Her curly auburn hair was short and very thick, and perched upon it was a round scarlet cap; her mouth was scarlet; her eyes were like Scotch braes, brown and laughing; the curves of her long, delicate lips ran upward; her curving thin, black eyebrows were like question-marks; her chin was tilted upward like the petal of a flower.
... She could get no further on the Chinese picture, except that the low street lamps were shaped like question-marks. I told her there was something in that street if she could find it, suggesting that she might think hard about it the last thing at night before she went to sleep, but I have heard nothing further. On occasions I have been stopped short.
"This age that blots out life with question-marks, This nineteenth century with its knife and glass That make thought physical, and thrust far off The heaven, so neighbourly with man of old, To voids sparse-sown with alienated stars."
'Well, to my mind, Hugo beats Byron, the young count observed negligently; 'he's more interesting. 'Hugo is a writer of the first class, replied Meidanov; 'and my friend, Tonkosheev, in his Spanish romance, El Trovador ... 'Ah! is that the book with the question-marks turned upside down? Zinaida interrupted. 'Yes. That's the custom with the Spanish. I was about to observe that Tonkosheev ...
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