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She was a noble, robust, gigantic specimen of her sex, well formed, strong as an ox, with a resolute jaw, and she talked, through tightly-closed teeth, in an aggressive manner. Dinner was ordered, and the party strolled about the village pending its preparation; but it was not ready when they returned.
The farm-wife lifted the girl's hand from the bedpost and caressed it in loving sympathy. Then she endeavoured to draw her away. "Come, child, come with me. You can do no good here." Prudence shook her off roughly. Nor did she answer. Her mother did not renew her attempt. All watched while Danvers forced some of the spirit between Grey's tightly-closed lips and then stood up to note the effect.
But I knew I was secure from observation on that side of the house, at least until eight o'clock, about which time the glories of the new day usually penetrate very tightly-closed lids. As to dew there isn't a drop upon grass or blossom. And, by the same token, we shall have a storm within twenty-four hours." "Is that true? That is a meteorological presage I never heard of until now."
Then the green door swung open again, and a gay rabble of wide-awake fairies came trooping out: and some of them kissed the hyacinth bells to open them, and some of them flew to the thorn-tree, until every little brancheen was white with flowers, where but a moment ago had been tightly-closed buds.
"His hand is closed, as if he were holding something in it." "That is true," the surgeon replied, drawing nearer. "That sometimes happens in the last convulsions. "You remember at Solferino, Commandant Bordy held his little daughter's miniature in his hand like that? We had much difficulty in taking it from him." As he spoke he tried to open the poor, tightly-closed dead hand.
"His hand is closed, as if he were holding something in it." "That is true," the surgeon replied, drawing nearer. "That sometimes happens in the last convulsions. "You remember at Solferino, Commandant Bordy held his little daughter's miniature in his hand like that? We had much difficulty in taking it from him." As he spoke he tried to open the poor, tightly-closed dead hand.
Lord Cloverton sat in his private room at the Embassy, a knitted brow and tightly-closed lips showing that he was deeply occupied in a problem which either baffled him altogether, or which, having been solved, gave him considerable anxiety. He had pushed his chair back from the table, and his attention was concentrated on the papers he held in his hand.
It was a wonderful day and somewhere streams were flowing under dark protecting trees, and the grass was thick in cool hollows and the woods were so dense that no blue sky reached the moss, but only the softest twilight ... and old Aitchinson, the town's solicitor, with his nutcracker face, his snuffling nose, his false teeth and the tightly-closed office, the piles of paper, the ink, the silly view from the dusty windows of Treliss High Street and life always in the future to be like that until he died.
Annunziata was the first to see him, sitting upon a rude wooden bench with his stout oaken staff in his hand on which he leaned heavily. She threw her arms about his neck with a cry of joy, endeavoring to snatch a kiss from his tightly-closed lips, but he sternly and silently repulsed her. Lorenzo, in his turn, met with no warmer reception at his father's hands.
In very truth she had lately pushed her diet theory so far that she was in a state of semi-starvation. She laughed, she chatted gaily, she made as entertaining a companion for that little lunch at the foot of the Fall as a man need wish to have. Hugh stared at her in amaze once or twice; it was as if a white tightly-closed rosebud had suddenly blossomed into beautiful bloom.
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