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Misled, perhaps, by the ribbon at the buttonhole, and by an expression of reserve, almost of secretiveness, in the lines of the tight-shut mouth, one would rather have supposed one's self face to face with an eminent statesman or diplomatist. With the further advance of years all that was singular in Ibsen's appearance became accentuated.
The early evening had fallen chill, but the night was now temperate; out of the recesses of the wood there came mild airs as from a deep and peaceful breathing; and the dew was heavy on the grass and the tight-shut daisies. This was the girl's first night under the naked heaven; and now that her fears were overpast, she was touched to the soul by its serene amenity and peace.
It was sad mockery, but David held doggedly to his belief that finally things would come right. His hands closed rigidly upon the sides of the fence-post, and from beneath the tight-shut eyelids slow tear-drops were squeezing out. It was so that Dr. Redfield found him. With medicine-case in hand, the physician had come down the walk from the desolate, scowling house.
She held her lips tight-shut a moment, a sob struggling in her throat. "But my distress, my own hurt pride " "What did your father say about Mildred Brace?" Hastings asked, when she did not finish that sentence. She looked at him, again with widened eyes, a startled air, putting both her hands to her throat. "There!" she said, voice falling to a whisper.
The birches in the hollow waved joyful hands as if watching for Anne's usual morning greeting from the east gable. But Anne was not at her window. When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed, pale and resolute, with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes. "Marilla, I'm ready to confess." "Ah!" Marilla laid down her tray.
Clare undid her tight-shut fingers, as if to some attraction of her eyes, and displayed a small gold hoop on the palm of a green glove. "A wedding-ring!" exclaimed Mrs. Doria, inspecting the curiosity most daintily. There on Clare's pale green glove lay a wedding-ring! Rapid questions as to where, when, how, it was found, beset Clare, who replied: "In the Gardens, mama. This morning.
This was a new state of affairs for little Miss Legh, who was accustomed, when she screamed, to hear other people protest and implore and command and coax by turns. To lie and kick and shriek, and find the only person near you not seeming to mind in the least, attracted her attention. She opened her tight-shut streaming eyes to see who this person was. And it was only another little girl.
Builded of stone or brick or both as to their landward faces, without exception they presented to the river false backs of wooden framework which overhung the water. Ordinarily, their windows were tight-shut, the panes opaque with accumulated grime many were broken and boarded. Their look was dismal, their squalor desperate.
If he hadn't been so so I'm sure he'd get out of the Mounted Police fast enough if he didn't like it. I can't imagine him doing anything against his will. I never knew him" with a faint smile "to stay anywhere or do anything that didn't suit him." She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.
I am so tired so tired of life! Don't keep me! Let me go while I have the strength!" The little, white, sharp-featured face, with its tight-shut eyes and childish, quivering mouth, was painfully pathetic. "Death can't be more dreadful than life," the low voice urged. "If I don't go back I shall be so sorry afterwards. Why should one live to suffer?"
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