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"If you wish," said the editor, by no means cheerfully. Miss Prune raised her voice, and commenced: "O star-eyed Nightingale, How nobly thou dost sail Through the air! No other bird can compare With the tuneful song Which to thee doth belong. I sit and hear thee sing, While with tireless wing Thou dost fly.
Stranger still, the star-eyed Madame Berthe Louison had never accompanied the young heiress in the regular afternoon parade en voiture. "There's a mystery here," mused the lover. "Old Hugh and the Major appear daily with the Frenchwoman, but Nadine Johnstone has never been seen alone with anyone save her father, or this Swiss duenna. Hawke is making slow progress there, if any."
Therefore I would that thou wouldst help me by thy magic power. And the Wise Man believed the words of Concobar, and he caused a hedge of spears to encircle the burning House. And as the flames rose higher the sons of Usna came forth with Deirdre the Star-eyed. And around her they placed their shields, and they cleft a way through the Hedge of Spears and came safely to the plain beyond.
But sometimes she told him of her home in the country of apple trees in bloom, and frail arbutus hiding under the snow. She told him of coasting parties, and bonfires, and trees to climb. And he listened, star-eyed and adoring. They made a pretty picture together the slim, rosy-cheeked girl and the ragged little boy, with the pale, city sunshine falling, like a mist, all about them.
This . . . The thought of the star-eyed ones reminded him of the girl who had come into the office the afternoon of his first visit to that torture chamber. He had thought of her many times since their meeting and always with humiliation and resentment. It was his own foolish tongue which had brought the humiliation upon him.
Payne, there's the philosophy of our era in a nutshell. Now let us hear how star-eyed youth, inspired by ideals, controverts the wisdom of the togoed sage? Annette, dear!" he roared. "Come out! Come out and have some sport!" "Miss Annette is not in the house," responded a maid. "What? She was a minute ago." "She is not now." "All right. Too bad; wish you could see her, Payne. She's changed.
They are mad with the thirst for the lost treasures of Joaquin. On, on, with the swing of the prairie wolf, the young leader gallops. He rides down man after man. As he gallops he thinks of Senora Juanita, the defenceless priest, the wounded old Commandante, and the sweet blossoming beauty of the Sierras, star-eyed young Dolores. They must be saved. On, on!
A footstep from behind caused her to start. The vintner took her roughly in his arms and kissed her many times. Her heart shook within her, but she did not surrender her purpose under these caresses. She freed herself energetically and stood a little away from him, panting and star-eyed. "Gretchen?" She did not speak. "What is it?" "You ask?" "Was it a crime, then, to jump out of the window?"
The human mind absolutely reels staggers bewildered and amazed under the load of conceptions imposed by these few twinkling stars, and is ready to exclaim, "Oh, star-eyed Science, hast thou wandered there, To waft us back a message of despair?"
"Because this man Porter is both wise and brave; and in two days or less we shall sleep in peace, for Jinaban shall be dead." Back from the clustering houses of Ijeet village the man who was "wise and brave" was sitting upon the bole of a fallen coco-palm with his arms clasped round the waist of the star-eyed Sépé, who listened to him half in fear, half in admiration.
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