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The man with the paper nodded. Hiram scraped his chair a foot closer. "Why, I don't exactly know. I'm willin' to do anything that is, try." The slate-blue eyes quizzically studied Hiram a little longer, then settled on the paper once more. A few moments they scanned the column. Then: "Maybe some o' these'll look attractive ol'-timer.
Yes; there it was; land, unmistakably, sharp and clear-cut, with a slate-blue cloud the only cloud in the sky hovering over it, from the breast of which vivid lightning flashed for a space, until, having emptied itself of electricity, the cloud-pall passed away, leaving the island refreshed by the shower that had accompanied the storm, gradually to change from soft blue to a vivid green as the Adventure, with widespread pinions, rushed toward it before the favouring breeze.
He had opened the outer door for her, and she drew herself up till she could face him squarely, slate-blue eyes flashing scornfully into sullen gray. "That is the first downright cowardly thing I have ever known you to say!" she declared. "And I wish you to know, Mr. Thomas Jefferson Gordon, that Mr. Duxbury Farley and Mr. Vincent Farley and Miss Eva Farley are my guests and my friends!"
It was the first time that he had been given to see the Dabney imperiousness shining star-like in Miss Ardea's slate-blue eyes. "I wish you to get your hand-bag and ride in here with me," she said, with the air of one whose wish was law. But when he was sitting opposite and the carriage door was shut, she smiled companionably across at him and added: "You foolish boy!"
Nan has had a falling-out with the old scamp of a moonshiner who calls himself her father. She came to me for help, and broke down in the midst of telling me about it. I can't stand a woman's crying any better than other men." The slate-blue eyes were transfixing him. "And that was all absolutely all, Tom?" "I don't lie to you," he said briefly.
He was shown with a crown of peacock's feathers, clad in a golden dhoti and in every case his skin was mauve or slate-blue. In certain cases, the lady of his choice appeared bowing at his feet, her pose suggesting the deepest adoration; yet, in other pictures, his role was quite different. He was then a resolute warrior, fighting and destroying demons.
A flash of lightning accompanied the priest's last words and the crash of the thunder came almost simultaneously. The obscurity was momentarily increasing, and the gigantic, nimbus cloud-band now reached far beyond the zenith, its slate-blue edges contrasting vividly with the green-and-saffron tints of the narrow strip of clear sky that still remained visible.
Her slate-blue skirts were kilted boldly about her waist and dovetailed behind her. Her bosom was as a bird's, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove. But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face.
Lady Feng, when at home, usually wore on her head a front-piece of dark martin a la Chao Chuen, surrounded with tassels of strung pearls. She had on a robe of peach-red flowered satin, a short pelisse of slate-blue stiff silk, lined with squirrel, and a jupe of deep red foreign crepe, lined with ermine.
You know in your own heart there is no reason why you should continue to make me unhappy, and you are afraid I might over-persuade you." Her eyes they were the serene eyes of cool gray that take on slate-blue tints in stressful moments met his defiantly. "If you think that, I withdraw my objection," she said coldly. "Mother and Penelope will be delighted, I am sure."
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