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Then, when the applause came to an end, he bowed, half ironically and gave a quick, imperious order, at which the curtain was rung down amid an uproar of excitement. He strode into the wings followed by Elodie starry-eyed, and stood panting. The curtain rose as if automatically. The manager thrust him towards the stage. "They want you," he cried. "They can go to the devil," said Andrew.
they came out, after a prolonged, starry-eyed stare, from their fastness, and continued their journey. Things were serious now. They had not fed, and could find nothing to feed upon but two hawthorn-berries, dropped by the wasteful fieldfares; but they drank, and cleaned, and proceeded up-stream, with that caution one only learns in a world full of enemies and empty of friends.
When Katherine finally came in, trying hard to appear unconscious, but looking rosy and starry-eyed, Sadie sprang forward and threw her arms around her, kissing her heartily. Then drawing back, but still holding her a prisoner, she mockingly exclaimed: "Moss rosebuds! Katherine, have you ever taken the trouble to ascertain what they mean when sent by a swain to a maid?" "Oh!
There came to her, therefore, a part of a famous speech; the murmured words flung back by that strange sounding board rang like a bell: "Give me liberty or give me death!" She emerged from her corner, starry-eyed. "It was as if I heard him say it." "Perhaps it was he, and I was only a mouthpiece." "I should think they'd like to come back. Will you come?" He laughed. "Who knows?
There was scarcely one at which I had not sat with some vanished companion in those years of ardent, irresponsible living which could never come again. Not always a woman had been the companion whose form I thus conjured out of the past, too often out of the grave; for the noble friendship of youth haunted those tables as well, with its generous starry-eyed enthusiasms and passionate loyalties.
"Dear, dear old Pat!" she spoke the words aloud. "The very thought of you braces me." Joan was still on the backward trail. She did not often tread it, but when she did she always returned starry-eyed and brave-hearted. That was her reward: the reward that she could share with no one except as it helped her to live. Presently she turned to her task of restoring the motto on the fireboard.
But then, Miss Eliza had her own most individual way of doing everything, even to telling of the contents of important letters. "When I have finished, you may read his letter for yourself. His new wife," she crowded a quantity of scorn into those two words, "wants you to come visit them. He says she does. They both do. She has sent ..." Arethusa sprang, starry-eyed, from her hassock.
"'Little starry-eyed gypsy, I say, when are you going to pull some of that open-road stuff? says Ben again, all cordial and sinister. "Wilfred gulped and tried to be jaunty. 'Oh, as to that, I'm here to-day and there to-morrow, he murmurs, and nervously fixes his necktie. "'Oh, my, and isn't that nice! says Ben heartily 'the urge of the wild to her wayward child' I know you're a slave to it.
"I wonder," mused Melissa, "if that's the kind of a fellow he'd be if some other fellow won his lady love away from him in a fair contest?" It so happened that Mr. Flanders placed a diamond-ring upon the third finger of Miss Fairweather's left hand that same afternoon, and it also happened that the starry-eyed young lady submitted to a tender embrace immediately afterward.
But most of all pleased was Ram Lal Singh, clutching in his dreams at the dagger of Mirzah Shah, lying there by his bedside. "He will be left alone, and he knows my signal his own device THREE TAPS AT HIS WINDOW! In Delhi there only lingered, sad and lonely, Major Harry Hardwicke, whose sighs were echoed back from afar by a starry-eyed girl watching the sandy shores of the Suez Canal.
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