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Updated: May 28, 2025
"All right, I'll be ready in a minute." The little girl followed Hale out on the porch and stood with her back against the railing. "Did you catch it?" he asked. She nodded, unsmiling. "I'm sorry. What were you doing up there?" She showed no surprise that he knew that she had been up there, and while she answered his question, he could see that she was thinking of something else.
Rivers laughed, but his eyes, directed above Burke's head, met the unsmiling gaze of Blanche and sobered. "Miss Clayton and I don't seem to get along first-rate," he said, and her face lighted again. "Well, there are lots of others 'round here lonesome girls. Blanche, can't you help Jim find a woman?" Blanche did not answer lightly. She turned to her work.
"I'm much obleeged," she said, shyly. "I'd 'a' cooked hit fer ye if I'd 'a' knowed you wasn't goin' to take hit home." "That's the reason I didn't give it to you at first I was afraid you'd do that. I wanted you to have it." "Much obleeged," she said again, still unsmiling, and then she suddenly looked up at him the deeps of her dark eyes troubled. "Air ye ever comin' back agin, Jack?"
She laid her hand lightly on his head, the fingers moving for a moment half in caress half in benediction, while he felt her almost imperceptible gesture dismissing this unusual audience where soul had faced soul on the brink of a great catastrophe; and he rose to meet the strange, luminous, unsmiling gaze of the great dark eyes which yesterday had been almost the eyes of a child.
To him Louis gave his card with a request that it be handed to Mr. Peebleby, then he seated himself and for an hour witnessed a parade of unsmiling, silk-hatted gentlemen pass in and out of Mr. Peebleby's office. Growing impatient, at length, he inquired of the boy; "Is somebody dead around here or is this where the City Council meets?" "I beg pardon?" The lad was polite in a cool, superior way.
And Jimmy seemed to like the fellow! Singleton lived untouched by human emotions. Taciturn and unsmiling, he breathed amongst us in that alone resembling the rest of the crowd.
He was a person of a peculiar disposition, so silent with so fixed and unsmiling an expression, that he gave the idea of a stolid, thick-skinned man, but at bottom he was of a sensitive nature, and feeling that his master did not treat him properly, he gave up his place and was for a long time without one.
"Circumstances?" He eyed me rather coldly, as if to say, "What right have you to suggest circumstances?" "Perhaps I should have said that it depends somewhat on what my powers represent." He crossed his slender legs comfortably and looked at me with a queer little tilt of his left eyebrow, but with an unsmiling visage.
Her attenuated figure was huddled down in that familiar attitude which the girl knew so well, but her face wore an expression which Joan had never beheld before. Usually her hard eyes were coldly unsmiling. Now they smiled terribly. Usually her thin cheeks were almost dead white in their pallor. Now they were flushed and hectic with a suggestion of the inward fire that lit her eyes.
There was something so unutterably sad about Felicita's condition that it awed the simple, cheerful nature of Madame. It was more than illness and exhaustion. The white, unsmiling face, the drooping head, the languor of the thin, long hands, the fathomless sorrow lurking behind her dark eyes all spoke of a heart-sickness such as Madame had never seen or dreamed of.
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