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At that very moment he raised his right hand, slightly shook his head back, and tossed his hair off his brow. His hand, ungloved, was white and delicate as a lady's, and his rich diamond ring gleamed in the sun. The pink flush on Barbara's cheek deepened to a crimson damask, and her brow contracted with a remembrance of pain. "The very action Richard described!
When we came in, as we were taught, we bowed low at our first entrance; and when we were come near his chair, he stood up, holding forth his hand ungloved, and in posture of blessing; and we every one of us stooped down, and kissed the end of his tippet. That done, the rest departed, and I remained.
Her ungloved hand lay within a few inches of him. He suddenly caught it. "Lady Elisabeth," he whispered, "I feel like a traitor. I feel myself moved to say things to you under false pretences. I ought not to have come here." "What do you mean?" she demanded. "You can't mean " Their eyes met. He read the truth unerringly. "No, not that," he answered. "There is no one.
'We need not detain you longer, Messieurs, I believe, said Madame Carson. 'Bon soir, Monsieur de Véron, she added, extending an ungloved hand to that gentleman, who faintly touched it with his lips; 'you will hear from me to-morrow. 'What is the meaning of all this? exclaimed Eugène de Véron, the instant his father and the notary disappeared.
As we were going down the stairs, she placed her ungloved hand upon mine. It was the first time that she had granted me such a favour, and it seemed to me a good omen. She took off her hand, asking me whether I was feverish. "Your hand," she said, "is burning."
"She must have lost her way," he said, glancing from the lovely little tear-stained face to the thinly shod feet and ungloved hands of the little one. The butterscotch had won her heart. Presently she volunteered a remark. "Dolly putted on her own hat. Dolly wanted to dig all alone. Dolly ran away." "Where is your home?" asked Erica. "Me don't know!
Slowly Sorrel trotted down the street, the blue ribbons fluttering in the wind, while one little ungloved hand was seen carefully adjusting about the old man's shoulders the ancient camlet cloak which had done duty for many a year, and was needed on this chill April day.
Her carriage was slovenly, her ungloved hands were red, her hair touzled, and her deep-toned voice over-loud and confident. Yet her frankness and her trustfulness could not fail to evoke sympathy. "It is Lady Mary that I am fond of," said the girl, with a yet more vivid blush. He was touched. "She will miss you, I am sure, when you go to town," he said kindly.
She was standing opposite to him. With a sudden motion, he sprang forward, fell on one knee, seized her ungloved hand, covered it with kisses, sprang up, and hastened away, crying as he went: "All right. I'll do it." Dora stood where he left her. First she looked at her hand, then at Charlie's retreating back, then again at her hand. Her cheek was flushed and she trembled a little.
Rapidly reviewing his life for the last few years, it appeared to Guest that he had existed in a chronic state of boredom. If "we were a honeymoon couple," that dreariness at least would come to an end! He looked at Cornelia's ungloved left hand resting upon the dark cushions she wore a ring, a wide, flat band of gold, with one fine diamond standing far out, in a claw setting.
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