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She looked sideways at him with critical meditation tenderly rendered. 'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI? she began suddenly, without replying to his question. 'Fancy yourself saying, Mr. Smith: "I sat her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long, For sidelong would she bend, and sing A fairy's song, She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew;"
"I wonder if you would be good enough to bring me a drink of water if it isn't too much trouble. I'm so thirsty. I can't very well go myself there are reasons why I can't. And I don't think she" with a sidelong glance toward the nodding figure opposite "I don't think she would feel that she could go and leave me. "Certainly I will," said Miss Smith. "It's not a bit of bother." "What is it?"
Four of the five men present measured his mates with sidelong looks. Sam shrugged and, resuming his ordinary circumspect air, turned away. The girl turned an indifferent, walled face toward the fire, refusing to look at any of the men. Her beauty grew upon them momentarily. Their amazement knew no bounds that one like this should have been led to their door out of the night.
Then he thought hard for a while, leaning upon his elbow; and took a couple of great pinches of snuff, and snuffed his candle again, and, as it were, snuffed his wits, and took up his pen with a little flourish, and dashed off another, and read it, and liked it, and gave it a little sidelong nod, as though he said, 'You'll do; and, indeed, considering all the time and thought he spent upon it, the composition was no great wonder, being, after all, no more than this:
"But now it has happened, Signora," said the Marchese, emboldened by the smile, and by a shy sidelong glance, which she shot from under her eye-lashes with a laugh in her eyes, as she spoke; "now it has happened that I have been permitted to see you in a toilet all the more exquisitely charming in that it wants the formality of the costume in which the world is wont to see you, may I not say what I came for the purpose of saying?"
I cast a sidelong glance at the good-liking of the world at large, more for the sake of their advantage and instruction than their praise. They are children; if we give them physic we must sweeten the rim of the cup with honey, &c. To this principle he faithfully adhered in all his original poems. He felt the difficulty of the task which he had proposed to himself.
"I understand; and I am sorry," said Exel, casting a sidelong glance at the body. "Of course, it is a delicate subject. No doubt Leroux can explain."... "Damn your explanation!" shrieked Leroux hysterically. "I CANNOT explain! If I could explain, I"... "Leroux!" said Cumberly, placing his arm paternally about the shaking man "you are such a nervous subject. DO make an effort, old fellow.
"What business occupation?" "Sales-lady," said the girl. "Residence?" "No. 2334 Pleasant Avenue." The captain leaned back in his arm-chair, and turned his toothpick between his lips, as he stared hard at the girl. "Well, now," he said, after a moment, "you know you've got to come into court and testify to-morrow morning." "Yes," said the girl, rather falteringly, with a sidelong glance at Lemuel.
The old man crimsoned to his ears, and with a sidelong look at Lisa, he hurriedly went out of the room. Marya Dmitrievna asked Panshin to sing his song again; but he protested that he did not wish to torture the ears of the musical German, and suggested to Lisa that they should attack Beethoven's sonata.
"Tell Colonel Morley, however, that if negotiations fail, I shall not fail, sooner or later, to argue my view of the points in dispute with my kind father-in- law, and in person." "Yes, hang it!" cried Poole, exasperated; "go and see Darrell yourself. He is easily found." "Ay," answered Jasper, with the hardest look of his downcast sidelong eye "Ay; some day or other it may come to that.
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