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Of course, you think her so. You suppose I didn't see what sort of a bonnet she had on? Oh, a very good creature! And you think I didn't see the smudges of court plaster about her face? "Very likely; but I did. Very amiable, to be sure! What do you say? "I should have liked to have seen her blush! 'Twould have been rather difficult, Mr. Caudle, for a blush to come through all that paint.
Just then one of the servants came up with a telegram. Tom hastily opened it and read the message eagerly in the corner of the summer house nearest one of the glowing smudges. I felt instinctively that it was from his lawyer. He turned and beckoned to Kennedy and myself. "What do you think of that?" he whispered hoarsely.
Samson woke the camp at daylight and a merry song was his reveille while he led the horses to their drink. "Have a good night?" Sarah would ask. "Perfect!" he was wont to answer. "But when the smudges went out the mosquiters got to peckin' my face." "Mine feels like a pincushion," Sarah would often answer. "Will you heat up a little water for us to wash with?" "You better believe I will.
A thing, Joan Tregenza, worth a wilderness of 'harmonies' and 'impressions, 'nocturnes' and 'notes, smudges and audacities. But I suppose that is all gibberish to you?" "Iss, so it be," she admitted. "Learn to love everything that is beautiful, my good child. But I think you do, unconsciously perhaps." "I don't take much 'count of things." "Yes, unconsciously.
There were rings of dust round her tear-swept eyes and smudges of dust-dried perspiration over her fair cheek. He thought of the beauty, freshness, and elegance of the woman he had just left, and an infinite pity swept the soul of this weak-minded gentleman. He ran towards her, and tenderly lifting her in her shame-stained garments from the buggy, said hurriedly, "I know it all, poor Kitty!
He was an admirable draughtsman, and his blackboard illustrations were always a great feature of his lectures, especially when, to show the relation of two animal types, he would, by a few rapid strokes and smudges, evolve the one into the other before our eyes.
And as the colonel's son began to count from the wagon-wheel he walked slowly past the teams and smudges, and across a strip of backfire beyond, to the high, dry grass, where he lay on his back for the rest of the evening, looking sadly up at the stars. The little girl sought a hiding-place, too, behind a hay-stack on the other side of the house.
When I got back to Horta from Cayenne and saw the "Anarchist" again, he did not look well. He was more worn, still more frail, and very livid indeed under the grimy smudges of his calling. It was on the pontoon in Horta that we met; and I tried to induce him to leave the launch moored where she was and follow me to Europe there and then.
Only the dark smudges of smoke told that they were mechanical realities with stokers and engines. While the three stood there, a sergeant brought Claude word that two of his men would have to report at sick-call. Corporal Tannhauser had had such an attack of nose-bleed during the night that the sergeant thought he might die before they got it stopped.
Green and purred, saying quite plainly that she was a good, honest cat and that she deserved to be petted. At least, that was what Mrs. Green understood her to mean. Often, after that, Mrs. Green discovered traces of the thief in the buttery. Flecks of cream on the side of a milk pan, drops of cream on the table, smudges of cream now and then on the floor! Such signs meant something.
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