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Updated: June 23, 2025
Care is all that is needed now, but it mustn't be stinted." There were tears standing in the slate-blue eyes of the listener, but Doctor Williams did not see them. If he had, he would not have understood; neither would he have plumbed the depths of misery in that whispered saying of Ardea's as she turned and fled to her room: "O Tom! how could you! how could you!"
There was cool scorn in the slate-blue eyes, but in Tom's thought she had never appeared more unutterably beautiful and desirable and unattainable. "I have come," she said, in a tone that cut him to the heart for its very indifference. "What have you to say for yourself?" He rose quickly and offered her the chair; and when she would not take it, he put his back to the wall and stood with her.
"I haven't even heard of a book for three weeks. He says all booksellers are crazy, but that you are the craziest of the lot. He wants to know if you're bankrupt yet." Roger's slate-blue eyes twinkled. He hung up a cup in the china closet and lit his pipe before replying. "What did you say?"
In dress this man was in a class with the other two, though perhaps a little better groomed. But a careful observer would have taken note of certain finer characteristics in the face. It was the face of a man in the thirties, robust and good-natured, with bushy brows, slate-blue eyes, and a nose that would have been termed Grecian if it had not been for a semiconical twist to the left.
This species is larger than the Sand-hill Crane, the latter having a total length of from forty to forty-two inches. The Sand-hill species may be distinguished from the Whooping-crane by its slate-blue color. The cackling, whooping, and screaming voices of an assembled multitude of these birds cannot be described. They can be heard for miles upon the open plains.
The tiled floor was badly covered by an infamous carpet, and the furniture, very simple, consisted of a round dining-room table, some old bergère armchairs covered with slate-blue Utrecht velours, a little stained walnut sideboard on which were several plates and pitchers of Breton faience, and opposite the sideboard a little black bookcase, which might contain fifty books.
At each turn of the road, forest, and always more forest, climbing with us as we climbed, and dropped away from us to narrow valleys that converged on slate-blue distances. At one of these turns we overtook a company of soldiers, spade on shoulder and bags of tools across their backs "trench-workers" swinging up to the heights to which we were bound.
Over the green turf little fountains spread the trickling web of their soft rain. Round-eyed, slate-blue pigeons cooed in a sunlit tree.
There was a smile on her lips, but there was fiery challenge in her slate-blue eyes. The blood of Irish kings and what Irishman dares deny it? surged into her throat. We wear masks, we inherit generations of masks; and a trivial incident reveals the primordial which lurks in each one of us. Savages Kitty with her stone hatchet and Hawksley swinging the curved blade of Hunk.
Full twenty feet at the shoulder the thing stood, a dirty slate-blue in color except for its yellow face with the blue bands encircling the eyes, the red hood with the yellow lining and the yellow belly. The three parallel lines of bony protuberances down the back gave a further touch of color to the body, those following the line of the spine being red, while those on either side are yellow.
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