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Updated: June 19, 2025
His eyes small, keen, deeply set beneath heavy brows flashed from a dull opacity to an alert animation. But in the first and last view of his face it was the mouth that marked the man; the straight, thin lips would close or unclose at their own will, not at another's the line of the mouth, like the line of the hard, square jaw, was the physical expression of his character.
But at her first movement he would unclose his eyes and groan her name, groping with his finger to detain her. So she sat in his big square bedroom with the drab walls and the plain furniture, watching the daylight fade and pondering to herself. It was a gloom period, and it had a perceptible effect upon her vitality.
"I started, even there among the flowers, To find the tokens mute of what I fled Passions, and forces, and resistless powers, That have uptorn the world and stirred the dead. "In secret bowers of amethyst and rose, Close wrapped in fragrant golden curtains laid, Where silver lattices to morn unclose, The fairy lover clasps his flower-maid. "Ye blessed children of the jocund day!
When he found himself in the street, he saw the window of Élodie's chamber half unclose and a little hand pluck a red carnation, which fell at his feet like a drop of blood.
Her words could not be mistaken though spoken in faint, feeble accents. At the same moment I heard the lower door of the dwelling unclose, and without knowing what I did or designed, I dropped from the tree to the ground. To my great relief, you did not perceive me. I was fortunately close to the fence, and in the deepest shadow of the tree.
These thoughts remain very much the same from day to day, from week to week; and as we grow older, from month to month, and from year to year. The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber.
"O heart, her rose, I cannot ease thee Till she release thee And bid unclose. So, till day come And she be risen, Rest, rose, in prison And heart be dumb!" He snapped the stem and passed on, whistling the air of his ditty, and twirling the rose between finger and thumb. "Men are all ninnies," Ruby decided as she dropped the blind; "and I thank the fates that framed me female and priced me high.
She was too near home for that too near the darling Aunt Barbara, who did not hear gate or door unclose, or the step in the dark hall. But when the knob of the sitting room door moved, she heard it, and, without turning her head, called out, "What is it, Betty? I thought you in bed an hour ago."
Then, hearing the kitchen door unclose, she remarked: "Well, I hear Moses coming in, and we three old people must get to rest. I am surely obliged to you for the help and comfort you are to me, Susanna, and to Moses, too. We'll do the best we can, and day by day." "Certain, Eunice.
"Try first if it will open to your hand," said I, shaking off the vague apprehension that had seized me, "while I unclose the shutters and see what is without." I unbarred the shutters the window looked on the little back yard I have before described; there was no ledge without nothing to break the sheer descent of the wall.
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