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His bronzed face marked clearly the workings of his thoughts: at first there had been a dulled, sombre look in his dark, deep-set eyes; then gradually a flame seemed to flicker in them, feebly at first, then dying down for awhile, then rising again more triumphant, more glowing than before, even as the firm lines around the tightly-closed lips became more set and more expressive of a strong resolve.
He had certain primitive notions about a wife's submission of herself to her husband, and it not only fretted him, but made him a little resolute on the subject of going to America when Lizzy declared herself determined not to go. One day Ward came home with brows knit more closely than usual, and a firmer and more decided expression upon his tightly-closed lips.
Knowing how late he had been upon the streets at the paper selling on Saturday evenings, she looked at him with eyes filled with tenderness and sympathy. Once the minister, a man with brown beard and hard, tightly-closed mouth, spoke to her. "Can't you keep him awake?" he asked impatiently.
Her little fingers were suffered to cling round the tightly-closed hand. "What is your name, my dear?" "Louise mamma's little Louise." Guy put back the curls, and gazed long and wistfully into the childish face, where the inherited beauty was repeated line for line.
"Well, Gilbert," exclaimed the matron, after receiving his tidings with tightly-closed lips and a generally antagonistic demeanour, "I can only say, that if you must marry at all and I am sure I thought you had quite settled down as a bachelor, with your excellent lodgings in Wigmore Street, and every I possible comfort in life I think you might have chosen much better than this.
Colin laughed and answered: "After that it would seem a little like boasting, but " he reached into his pocket and pulled out the tuna button, safely stowed away in a tightly-closed box. The Deputy Commissioner whistled softly in surprise. "And did you win this, too?" he asked. "You went to Santa Catalina, then?" "Yes, Dr. Crafts," the boy replied, and related his experiences while there.
In the tightly-closed cabin the derelict hunters were now at the mercy of the mysterious influence an influence they could not see or guard against, and from which they were in deadly peril. STRANGE things happen on the ocean. Sometimes slight occurrences lead to great results. When the sailors deserted the brig Rockhaven, provisioning their boats in a hurry, one water cask was left behind.
"There now, one can see!" she said, "now one can just see one can snub you with just the tiniest frown make you look sheepish by just moving a little away from you" ... she laughed, tantalizingly, roguishly, with tightly-closed eyes, as if she could not stand being looked at, either. "Well, upon my soul!" I blurted out, "now you shall just see," and I flung my arms violently around her shoulders.
On one side of this hall was the "best bedroom," ghostly with tightly-closed white shutters and long white dimity curtains to the "four-poster" and shining white sanded floor, and the "best-room," terrible in its grandeur of cold white walls, straight hard sofa, "spider-legged" table, grenadier-like chairs and striped woolen carpet underlaid with straw.
As she gazed at it, to her spirit came the same quiet comfort as had come to her on that night when the vision had visited her. So clearly could she see the rays of Aton behind the high crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, that she lifted up her head. Perhaps He was there, in the sitting-room, standing just in front of her? Had the luminous body penetrated the darkness of her tightly-closed eyes?
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