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One would thrust his square-nailed finger to the name of a city and pronounce it; one gave us lessons in the expression of the vowels, with the softening of three of them, which seemed like a regulation drill movement for taking an egg into the mouth, and showing repentance of the act. 'Sarkeld, we exclaimed mutually, and they made a galloping motion of their hands, pointing beyond the hills.
There seemed to be an odd intoxication in the face, pale, impassive, and unrighteous, as if the effects of a drug were beginning to steal upon the senses. And the white, square-nailed hands beat gently upon the piano till many people, unconsciously, began to sway ever so little to and fro.
She smiled now when she thought of that. Presently she felt that some one was approaching her. She looked up and saw Jernington coming down the path, wiping his pale forehead with a silk handkerchief in which various colors seemed fortuitously combined. "Is the work over?" she cried out to him. He threw up one square-nailed white hand. "No. But for once he has got a passage all wrong.
Mrs. Shiffney got up and begged Ferdinand to sing again, mentioning several songs by name. He shook his head, letting his apparently boneless and square-nailed hands stray about over the piano all the time she was speaking to him. "Non, non! Ce soir non! Impossible!" "Then sing Petite Fille de Tombouctou!" she exclaimed at last.
One would thrust his square-nailed finger to the name of a city and pronounce it; one gave us lessons in the expression of the vowels, with the softening of three of them, which seemed like a regulation drill movement for taking an egg into the mouth, and showing repentance of the act. 'Sarkeld, we exclaimed mutually, and they made a galloping motion of their hands, pointing beyond the hills.
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