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Selecting a small apple, he gave the old woman a penny; then, after looking at me scrutinisingly for a moment, he moved from the booth in the direction of Southwark. ‘Do you know who that man is?’ said I to the old woman.
"If it ever does, I will remember your goodness." Gilbert looked scrutinisingly at Marian Holbrook as she stood before him with the cold gray light of the sunless day full upon her face. He wanted to read the story of her life in that beautiful face, if it were possible. He wanted to know whether she was happy with the man who had stolen her from him.
I cannot understand why you have come to see me if you would explain " While she thus spoke Lady Blythe had surveyed her scrutinisingly through a gold-mounted lorgnon. "Quite a proud little person it is!" she remarked, and smiled "Quite proud! I suppose I really must explain! Only I do hope you will not make a scene. Nothing is so unpleasant! And SUCH bad form! Please sit down!"
I couldn't live without it. Walter and I read it every night. Liz drew herself a little apart doubtfully, and looked yet more scrutinisingly into the face of Gladys. 'Upon my word, ye're less fit than I thocht for this warld. What were ye born for? Ye'll never fecht yer way through, she said, with a kind of scornful pity. 'Oh yes, I will.
Selecting a small apple, he gave the old woman a penny; then, after looking at me scrutinisingly for a moment, he moved from the booth in the direction of Southwark. 'Do you know who that man is? said I to the old woman.
Bill set Patty down, not hastily, but very deliberately, and then said, with an anxious air: "How did it go, Mrs. Parsons? I do my part all right, but Miss Fairfield needs more practice, don't you think so?" Aunt Adelaide looked scrutinisingly at the young man, but his expression was so earnest that she couldn't doubt him. "Patty looked scared to death," she said, with reminiscent criticism.
When he had passed through the village he had seen things he had not expected to see; when he had reached the entrance gate, and for reasons of his own dismissed his station trap, he had looked at the lodge scrutinisingly, because he was not prepared for its picturesque trimness. The avenue was free from weeds and in order, the two gates beyond him were new and substantial.
Then the horse, buggy and driver appeared at the other side, and in a few moments had overtaken him. He looked up sharply, scrutinisingly. Suddenly he burst out: "Holy mother, Chris, is that you! Where've you been? Are you all right?" She had whipped up her horse at first sight of him, thinking he might be some drunken rough. "Mais, mon dieu, Nic, is that you?
She took counsel with matrons old and circumspect as herself; made herself acquainted with Victor's history; watched his looks, listened to his words narrowly and scrutinisingly; and, day by day, felt more and more strongly that she liked him not that there was mischief in his restless eye and soft musical voice.
She leaned her elbows on her knees, and, with her thin face between her hands, peered scrutinisingly into her visitor's face. There was a great contrast between them, the rich girl and the poor, each the representative of a class so widely separated that the gulf seems well-nigh impassable. 'I don't mean anything, except that I want to help working girls.
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