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This second and unmistakable hint was not disregarded, and puss was given the petting he craved. Father was full of this anecdote when all met at breakfast the next morning. Among our dogs were “Turk” and “Linda,” the former a beautiful mastiff and the latter a soft-eyed, gentle, good-tempered St. Bernard. “Mrs.
And all the buildings along her banks, as far as the towers at Westminster, seemed to be smiling. It was a great sight for the eyes of a lover. And another vision came haunting Miltoun, of a soft-eyed woman with a low voice, bending amongst her flowers. Nothing would be complete without her; no work bear fruit; no scheme could have full meaning.
If it had been struck by some outraged husband, strong of arm and fierce with vengeance, I could understand. But but this young, pretty, soft-eyed thing!" But who may know the thoughts of the other occupant of that little sitting-room?
Tancred took advantage of this movement to approach Eva, who was conversing, as they took their evening walk, with the soft-eyed sister of Hillel and Madame Nassim Farhi; a group of women that the drawing-rooms of Europe and the harems of Asia could perhaps not have rivalled.
"You're all for fighting, I see," chimed in soft-eyed Molly; "I wonder what little Jim would like to be, if he was awake." "I know what battles I would like to see him fighting," said Mrs Thorogood. "Why," exclaimed the blacksmith in surprise, "I thought you hated fighting of all kinds?" "No, not all kinds. I should like to see little Jim fighting the battle of the Prince of Peace."
Here I saw before me, in one promiscuous throng, arrayed in their national dresses, Persians, dark-skinned Indians, swarthy Egyptians, the languishing, soft-eyed Syrian, nymphs from the borders of the Caspian, women of the Jews from the shores of the Mediterranean, Greeks from Asia Minor, the Islands, and Attica, with their classic costume and statue-like forms and faces, Romans, and, abounding over all and more beautiful than all, the richly-habited nobles and gentry of Palmyra itself.
For the first week she moved in a kind of exaltation. It was partly that her glass showed her a different woman: soft-eyed, with cheeks tinted from the long, restless walks through the spring that was coming on with every warm, greening day. The excitement of the letter hung over her. She pictured her announcement, Fräulein Müller's amazed questions. "'But but I do not understand!
Creech saw that Bostil was desperate. It was an almost overpowering temptation. Evidently Creech resisted it only by applying all his mind to the thought of his clean-limbed, soft-eyed, noble horse. Bostil did not give Creech time to speak. "Twenty-five hundred an' Two Face along with the rest!" "My God, Bostil stop it! I can't PART with Blue Roan. You're rich an' you've no heart.
"I will have other help for you there," he said. "Before you go home to- night there will be a printer here with a bundle of pamphlets I am having printed for you." Advised by the soft-eyed Jewish girl, he told off others to get additional names for the mailing list he wanted, getting many important ones from girls in the room.
A soft-eyed Mexican woman came to the door and smiled at them, and there was a rapid exchange of liquid sentence. "They are both at home, Señorita. We bid you farewell." The servant, wide-eyed and curious, had come at his command to take Honor's bags. "Oh but surely you'll wait? Won't you come in and rest? It was such a long, warm drive, and you must be tired."
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