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Perk looked backward toward the scene of his amazing afternoon battle how many times in the future would the picture rise in his memory to haunt him and bring that quizzical grin to his face. With the newly risen moon gilding the small waves of the gulf below them, the picture looked most peaceful.
And how long he would have held her, there is no way to know, because the strain had been too great on Mother Mayberry and in a few minutes she stood calmly in the door and looked at the pair of children with happy but quizzical eyes. "It's just as well you got Tom Mayberry straightened out quick, Elinory," she remarked in her most jovial tone.
I've often thought of you rather pitifully!" said Prather. "You well might!" Jack answered, feelingly. "We may well share a common pity for each other." There was no sign that John Prather subscribed to the sentiment except in a certain quizzical turn of his lips, as he looked away. "Yes, the story has been kept from me. I have come for it!" said Jack. "That is raking out the skeletons.
Thackeray put on one of his most quizzical expressions, and said to John, in answer to his question, "I think we will make a morning call on the Lord Bishop of London." John knew his master's quips and cranks too well to suppose he was in earnest, so I gave him my address, and we went on. When we reached my lodgings the clocks were striking two, and the early morning air was raw and piercing.
Those girls you bowed to over there are pretty enough to be Gibson girls, just stepped out of a magazine; and so far you are the only man I have met." "Well," he said after a moment's waiting, "you haven't given me your opinion of me." There was a quizzical twinkle in his eye, which Mary, intent upon her beloved ice-cream, did not see.
"Do you mean it?" "Yes, Bles." "Why?" "Because I am selfish and small." "No, you are not. You want to be; but give it up, Carrie; it isn't worth the cost. Come, let's be honest and poor and free." She regarded him a moment, searchingly, then a look half quizzical, half sorrowful came into her eyes.
"Don't you want to go with them?" asked Alice of their escort. "No, Miss, I I'd rather be with you," Baldy replied, simply, but he blushed even under his coat of tan. "Now who's to blame?" asked Ruth in a low voice of her sister, as she regarded her with a quizzical smile. "I can't help it if he likes me," murmured the younger girl.
He might make some useful suggestions. Bruce acted at once upon the idea and again the clerk came forward cheerfully. Going to the point at once, Bruce demanded: "How would a stranger go about raising money here for a mining proposition?" A quizzical expression came into the clerk's eyes and a faint smile played about his mouth. He looked Bruce over with some personal interest before he answered.
The astonished clerk obeyed. Back at the hospital Mr. Button entered the nursery and almost threw the package at his son. "Here's your clothes," he snapped out. The old man untied the package and viewed the contents with a quizzical eye. "They look sort of funny to me," he complained, "I don't want to be made a monkey of " "You've made a monkey of me!" retorted Mr. Button fiercely.
Propinquity and opportunity ought to do the rest.... We can see to that." Bonbright understood what they were saying as if he had heard it; bit his lips and looked ruefully from the mothers to Hilda. Her eyes had just swung from the same point to HIS face, and there was a dancing, quizzical light in them. SHE understood, too. Bonbright blushed at this realization.
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