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Berselius's presence at the table evidently cast silence and a cloak of restraint upon the women. You could see that the servants who served him dreaded him to the very tips of their fingers, and, though he was chatting easily and in an almost paternal manner, his wife and daughter had almost the air of children, nervous, and on their very best behaviour.
But he was deceived, Miriam; we are worth nothing a round naught " and she suited the action to the word by the union of the tips of her thumb and finger "is the figure whereby to describe our fortunes now; and the heiress and her once dependent friend and sister are alike beggars! All brought to one level at last there is comfort in that thought, at least!
Blush? they could both see the color rush like a wave to the very roots of his hair and the tips of his fingers. The moment our heroines, who, in that desperation which is one of the forms of cowardice, had hurled themselves on the foe, saw this, flash the quick-witted poltroons exchanged purple lightning over Edouard's drooping head, and enacted lionesses in a moment.
The arrows were now ready, with the exception of the poison for their tips; and this was the most important of all, for without it both blow-gun and arrows would have been useless weapons, indeed.
Picking his way according to the German chart, he set a zigzag course. At length the officers of the Monitor knew they were closing in, and so far successfully. The submarines were running submerged with only the tips of their periscopes showing. All at once there appeared in the sky directly ahead of the Monitor a line of red lights.
She had constantly had her attention called by the latter to novelties in everything which pertains to a woman's apparel. "Are you going to get such and such a hat?" or, "Have you seen the new gloves with the oval pearl buttons?" were but sample phrases out of a large selection. "The next time you get a pair of shoes, dearie," said Mrs. Vance, "get button, with thick soles and patent-leather tips.
Take this and saddle him." Slowly, gingerly, with thumb and finger tips the ranchman plucked the coin from the open and extended palm, then bowed with the same native grace and gravity. "Come, Loring," growled the colonel impatiently, "dinner," and Sancho caught the name. "The Señor Loreeng will not ride him hard or far? It is to the camp of the major he goes?"
Tessie determined to slip off the car at the next side street, and make a detour to hide the route she must take to return to the Osborne home. "Well, so long, Frank. Here's where I detrain. Maybe I'll see you to-morrow. Give my love to your mother, and I hope you find the runaway girl," and she waved a merry good-bye that seemed to burn the tips of the fingers she shook it from.
The comedian who preceded Mr. Mackwayte and who was on the stage at that moment had said, "Hullo, Mac! Come to give us young 'uns some tips?" And even now the stage manager was talking over old days with her father. "You had a rough but good schooling, Mac," he was saying, "but, by Jove, it gave us finished artists.
"The reason I asked," explained Honora, flushing, was because Howard is associated with him. Mr. Wing is largely interested in the Orange Trust Company." "Yes, I know," said Peter. His elbows were resting on the arms of his chair, and he looked at the tips of his fingers, which met. Honora thought it strange that he did not congratulate her, but he appeared to be reflecting. "What did Mr.
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