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The universal ear bent closer, as if to catch the least articulation of Millner's narrowed lips; but when he opened them it was merely to re-insert his cigar, and for a short space nothing passed between the two men but an exchange of smoke-rings. "What do you mean to do? There's the point," Mr. Spence at length sent through the rings.
His tone was an invitation to silence; and the doctor turned his attention to the cigar, studying its ash for a minute with an air of deep meditation, and then solemnly blowing out a slow series of smoke-rings. Theron watched him with an indolent, placid eye, wondering lazily if it was, after all, so very pleasant to smoke.
It is not altogether pleasant, but in your present frame of mind it will not do you any harm to hear it." She paused a moment, head thrown back, blowing smoke-rings to the ceiling. "I came to London ten years ago," she began presently, "and I was twenty-one at the time.
Should we be able to show our smoke-rings, for instance, if, instead of having the electric light, I merely cut a hole in the ceiling and allowed the feeble twinkle of a star in the Great Bear to shine through? In a similar way the sunbeams would be utterly powerless to effect any illumination of objects in these stellar distances. All the stars of heaven would continue to shine as before.
"Oh, I can turn my hand to 'most anything," bragged Quin, blowing smoke-rings at the ceiling. "It's experience that counts, and, believe me, I've had a plenty." "Experience plus education," added Mr. Martel; "we must not underestimate the advantages of education." "That's where I'm short," admitted Quin. "My folks were all smart enough.
She seemed to rise in such a detached fashion from her environment. He had to admit, as later he sat in the cloistered silences of his club library and blew contemplative smoke-rings into the air, that a certain idle curiosity had been the mainspring of his concern for her.
Marie looked across at Richard Hartley, but that gentleman was blowing smoke-rings and to all outward appearance giving them his entire attention. He looked back to Captain Stewart, and Stewart's eyes regarded him, smiling a little wistfully, he thought. Ste. Marie scowled out of the window at the trees of the Luxembourg Gardens. "I hardly know," said he.
'You forget the philosophic critic equally disagrees with all Parties. David lost his temper at last. 'Gentlemen, he shouted ironically, 'one may sit and make smoke-rings till the Messiah comes, but I assure you there is only one unconditional historic necessity, and that is Samooborona.
As their tones rose and fell, she laughed. Long afterward, Rudolph was to remember her, a wholesome, capable figure in faded blue, darting keen glances from her beady eyes, flashing her white teeth in a smile, or laughing till the green pendants of false jade trembled in her ears. "Her name is Mrs. Wu," said Heywood, between smoke-rings, "and she is a lady of humor.
So long as the lady claims to be the wife of a Grand Duke of Valeria, the American Ambassador will absolutely decline to interfere in her behalf." "She may get powerfully tired of having me for a husband," I observed. He studied the smoke-rings a bit. "I wonder just how far it would be well for you to play the husband?" he mused. "What's that?" I almost shouted.
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