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Updated: June 23, 2025
It's in any man to play high when the good opinion of the one woman is the stake. I'm a poseur, like all the others." She smiled down on him and the slate-blue eyes were reading him to the latest-indited heart-line. "You are posing now," she asseverated. "Don't I know? don't I always and always know?"
He watched her trip away in a dance, and eventually led her mother to the trap. Berenice was not with them on the home drive; some one else was bringing her. Cowperwood wondered when she would come, and where was her room, and whether she was really sorry, and As he fell asleep Berenice Fleming and her slate-blue eyes were filling his mind completely. The Planet Mars
Was it that he feared her sober judgment of this wild plan of his? Did he see something hazardous in the conservatism of her calm slate-blue eyes that would put his new mode of thought, his new habit of mind to tests which they might not survive? "I I said it was on business of Flynn's," he evaded at last. "He's a very good friend of mine.
It revealed living coral, good to avoid by the barefooted; clams with patterned mantles of various tints grey, slate-blue, sea-green, brown, and buff; anemones in many shapes, some like spikes of lavender, and irritant and repellent to the touch; some platter-shaped and cobalt-blue; some as living vases with the opalescent tints of Venetian glass, which, abhorring the hand of man, retreat into the sand until only an inconspicuous fringe of neutral tint is visible.
As the silvery sycamore trees, leaning over the glittering reaches of the slate-blue river, put forth the first green leaves, of the daintiest vernal hue, Odalie loved to gaze through them from the door of the cabin, perchance to note an eagle wing its splendid flight above the long, rippling white flashes of the current; or a canoe, as swift, as light, cleave the denser medium of the water; or in the stillness of the noon a deer lead down a fawn to drink.
It was the score of a Bach fugue that stood on the music-rack, and she was oblivious to everything else until her fingers had found and struck the final chords. Then she looked up and saw him. There was no greeting, no welcoming light in the slate-blue eyes; and she did not seem to see when he came nearer and offered to shake hands.
I just want you to read me the balance sheet." "Well, then, I spent thirty-eight dollars, and I've got twenty-nine dollars left." "Stand up." Hiram did so. "Turn round." Hiram wheeled slowly. Tweet studied him from every angle, and as Hiram turned he noted the twinkles which came and went in his slate-blue eyes.
Johnny Two-Hawks probably did it." "Bully for Two-Hawks! Kitty, you're a marvel. Not a flivver from the start. And those slate-blue eyes of yours don't miss many things." "Listen!" she interrupted, taking hold of his sleeve. "Hear it?" "Only the Elevated." "Tumpitum-tump! Tumpitum-tump! Cutty, you hypnotized me this afternoon with your horrid drums." "The emeralds?"
The rainy season had long set in, and skies overcast by great masses of slate-blue cloud surcharged with rain and electricity were no new thing to the Nonsuch's crew, but the aspect of the sky on this particular day was of an altogether different character.
At such places the surrey paused while Selwyn held forth to his two stolid "prospects" on how long these newcomers had been there and how well they were getting on. The country rose in a gradual slope to the slate-blue mountains. Ditches ran here and there. Everywhere were small square stakes painted white, indicating the boundaries of tracts yet unsold.
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