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"Such as bones, I suppose. Still you seem to be interested in the soft-looking piece of humanity over by that cabinet." "Yes; his expression is reminiscent of a boy's definition of a vacuum, a large space with nothing in it. Who is he?" "And I thought you not unknown! He is the husband of a brilliant woman, Mrs. Ames, who has written a novel." "Clever?"
"You shall 'ave it. I've never told a soul. It's 'ow you can earn a living on the streets like me, and keep, like me, as good a maid as any lady married at St George's, 'Anover Square." "Thank you, but ". "Listen; listen; listen! It's dress quiet, pick up soft-looking gents, refuse drink, and pitch 'em a Sunday school yarn," said Miss Ewer impressively. "But ".
I remember now, as well as if it were yesterday, how, during the first weeks of my life in Paris, I fell in love at first sight with a wee maisonnette at the corner of a certain street overlooking the Luxembourg gardens a tiny little house, with soft-looking blue silk window-curtains, and cream-colored jalousies, and boxes of red and white geraniums at all the windows.
At an Amulree market he was very early on the market-ground. A soft-looking country man, well dressed, came up with thirteen very fine polled cattle, which Halliburton bought at a price that satisfied even him as to their cheapness. He took James Ritchie, an Aberdeen dealer, to see them. On hearing the price Ritchie was astonished.
"Not a house, but a palace, made of soft-looking, sparkly stones that flash like diamond dust, and inside it is white and still, the kind of a still that makes you feel dreamy and nice. And there are fountains everywhere, with cool water splashing out of the top of them.
Now it was moving toward them, steadily, borne by the team of workers. And now, clearly, for the first time, they saw what it really was. It was a head, that mushroom growth. Rather, the whitish-gray, soft-looking thing was a brain. For it had long ago burst free of the original insect skull casing in which it had been born.
Now, if you're feeling pretty well again, I'd better go." Gently he drew his arm out from under the pillow, thus laying down the head he had supported. The girl turned, resting her cheek on her hand a frail little hand, soft-looking as that of a child and gazed at Max wistfully. "I suppose you'll think it's dreadful of me," she faltered, "but I wish you needn't go.
One great swirling wave ran up and curled around the oxen's hoofs just as they reached firm ground, but, though Eyebright gave a little scream, and Mr. Downs frowned and said, "by gosh!" no harm was done, and the momentary fright only made pleasanter their drive to Scrapplehead, which they reached just as the sun sank for the night into a great soft-looking bed of purple and crimson clouds.
"'Tis much nicer than my room at home, only I don't like it half so well; indeed, I don't." It was a very pretty room certainly. The paper on the wall was bright and soft-looking, with a pattern of bunches of spring flowers, tied with silver ribbon. The carpet was something of the same sort, and it reminded him of primroses hidden in the grass.
Nothing's been playing tricks with my nerves I can swear, and I do assure you that the Princess Zairoff stood there in that doorway and looked in here, not five minutes ago. Why, I'll even tell you the gown she had on. It was thick white silk and had a border of soft-looking white fur. There!" she added triumphantly.
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