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Updated: May 23, 2025
Upon her face at present, as she looked down at her knitting, was a smiling benignity that would have recommended itself to the Virgin at Chartres; and at the same time her hair what modest growth there was left was uncurling itself from behind and threatening to pull down the whole structure after it.
Her forehead was puckered painfully as, gripping her hat, she stood busily curling and uncurling her toes in the dirt. Her lashes were fluttering as if she awaited a blow. "I'll just ask you one thing," went on the eldest brother; "what's to-morrow?" The little girl started as if the blow had fallen, and stammered her answer. "My my birfday," she said. "A ha," he replied suggestively.
He stretched three or four times, twisting about in his place, curling and uncurling his toes, muttering from time to time between two yawns: "Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord!" He stared about the room, collecting his thoughts, readjusting himself for the day's work.
"The grass is greener and things are sticking up everywhere and things are uncurling and green buds of leaves are showing. This afternoon I am sure Dickon will come." The long warm rain had done strange things to the herbaceous beds which bordered the walk by the lower wall.
Her arm under his head, the glass tilted high against his teeth, he drank deeply, gratefully, breathing out finally and lying back against his pillow, his right hand uncurling of its clutch. She lifted the short-snouted, wide-barreled, and steely object off the bed-edge gingerly, tremblingly. "More like it," he said, running his tongue around his mouth; "more like it."
The little cottage gardens and higher orchards were smothered in the snow of plum and cherry-blossom, primroses carpeted the woods which crowned the heights of the hills, and the long dark spikes of bluebells, ready to bud and blossom, thrust themselves through the masses of last year's dead leaves, side by side with the uncurling fronds of the bracken and fern.
"Yeh-while it lasts. I hear there ain't goin' to be no more cabarets or Camembert cheese till after the war." "What you going to do with it buy us a round of fizz?" She bit open the knot, a folded bill dropping to the table, uncurling. "Lord!" she said, contemplating and flipping it with her finger-tip. "Where I come from that twenty-dollar bill every week would keep me like a queen.
They showed the most various shades of green, from the dark tint of the mature frond, to the pale pea green of those which were just uncurling themselves. There were many prostrate trees, which nature has entirely covered with choice ferns, specially the rough stem of the tree-fern. I counted seventeen varieties on one trunk, and on the whole obtained thirty-five specimens for my collection.
King Hiram showed his contentment by stretching out at full length and uncurling his great amber claws. The mat on the floor had much to suffer. "Galé is here, too," said the little girl. "Galé! Who may he be?" At the same time, I saw on Tanit-Zerga's knees a strange animal, about the size of a big cat, with flat ears, and a long muzzle. Its pale gray fur was rough.
She was a pretty, demure-looking child, only somewhat thin and fragile in appearance, not in the least like her mother, but I could trace instantly the strongest resemblance to her father. She had the straight, uncurling hair like his, and her dark eyes were a little sunken under the finely-arched brows.
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