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He merely grinned, presented his card of admission in a paw washed clean only in spots, and accepted with equal equanimity the piercing gaze of the usher and the rear seat to which that outraged youth austerely conducted him. There, round-eyed, Jimmy stared about him. He had never been inside of St. Giles's before. It was quite possible that he would never find himself inside of it again.
But, as the woman would not lift her head, she and Laura prepared to pass her, Laura coming last. The blow, like all such unexpected incidents, had the effect of lightning on those present; the woman might have escaped, but after she had struck she sat down impassive as a cat by the hearth, with a round-eyed stare. The news that Vittoria had been assassinated traversed the city.
The door was kept locked at such times, but once Eugenia, who had gone with Congo to carry Aunt Griselda her toast and tea, had caught a glimpse of a yellowed swiss muslin frock and the leather case of a daguerreotype containing the picture of a round-eyed girl with rosy cheeks.
Seem to have come back to life from a beastly long way off all at once by special aeroplane. I don't think I've felt like this since since " "Since Connie Edwards' day," Robert suggested. "But I expect you've forgotten her." Cosgrave stared, round-eyed and open-mouthed and foolish. "Connie ? No I haven't. You bet I haven't. Often wonder what became of her. She was a jolly good sort."
Probably Epidemic Hypertrophy will meet the case." "Epidemic!" said the Vicar. "You don't mean it's contagious?" The doctor smiled gently and rubbed one hand against the other. "That I couldn't say," he said. "But !" cried the Vicar, round-eyed. "If it's catching it it affects us!" He made a stride up the road and turned about. "I've just been there," he cried.
Even the timid Pamela had gained boldness and dexterity on the clear, frozen pond; and therefore when Betty, with the ease of a practiced skater, glided off without assistance, Peter flew after her in round-eyed amazement. "I say, Betty," he exclaimed, breathless with his effort to catch her, "how you do fly!
Turning, he caught Lem, a six footer and heavy, and with what seemed a playful little clasp raised him from the ground and tossed him over his shoulder where he hung balanced for a minute before Lee gently eased him to the ground. Chauncey was round-eyed with amazement and Lem sputtered, "Lee, you wizard, you! How in the world did you do that? Why, I am twice your size!"
I tried to be jolly, and gave my repertory on the mouth-organ, which promptly stopped all activities on the part of the round-eyed Queenie MacKenzie. But all that foolery was as forced as the frivolity of the French Revolution Conciergerie where the merry diners couldn't quite forget they were going to lose their heads in the morning! Sunday the Thirteenth
With the finishing of the soup came the first reference to Claire's work, for the Captain's casual "Do you care for anything solid, or would you prefer a sweet?" evoked a round-eyed stare of dismay. "Oh, please!" cried Claire deeply. "I want to go straight through. I've been living on mutton and cabbage for over two months, and cooking suppers on a chafing-dish.
Her attendant for she had one was a red-faced, round-eyed, slovenly girl, who, from a certain roughness about the bare arms that peeped from under her draggled shawl, and the half-washed-out traces of smut and blacklead which tattooed her countenance, was clearly of a kin with the servants-of-all-work on the form: between whom and herself there had passed various grins and glances, indicative of the freemasonry of the craft.
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