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Even the expression was almost the same, but in Constance's deep eyes was a certain wistfulness that the faint smile of her mouth could not wholly deny. The woman who looked back at her daughter seemed strangely youthful. Barbara felt, in a way, as though she were the mother and Constance the child, for she was older, now, than her mother had been when she died.
"You've built the wall," he said. They had met by the churchyard gate, and Jeanie and Pat were having a hopping race down the hill. Avery looked after them with a touch of wistfulness. "But I wish she could have been away longer." Tudor frowned. "Yes. Why on earth not? The Reverend Stephen again, I suppose.
Jerry had even shown a disposition to shirk keeping her promise anent the new way of doing Teresita's hair. She said that she didn't think she'd go to the fiesta, after all which was like calmly telling a priest that one does not, after all, feel as if heaven is worth striving for. Teresita failed to see how the wistfulness was quite submerging the twinkle in Mrs.
But now and again, when the flushed and laughing girls who were playing lawn-tennis on the terrace, raised their voices higher than usual as they called the score, and distracted her attention from her work, her gaze strayed through the open window and lingered on them wistfully; and as her eyes came back to her task she sighed with so faint a wistfulness that she hardly knew she sighed.
"Emma Dean, you ridiculous creature, why won't you take us seriously?" laughed Julia, but her voice still held an undercurrent of wistfulness. "Does the fact that we are twins have this hilarious effect upon you?" "I wonder if that's the reason," murmured Emma. Then dropping her usual bantering tone, she fixed earnest eyes on the black-eyed twins.
She put out her hands, shouted something, and all that wild mob took up the shout in a roaring chorus of articulated, rapid, breathless utterance. "'Do you understand this? I asked. "He kept on looking out past me with fiery, longing eyes, with a mingled expression of wistfulness and hate.
He looked at her with feverish eager wistfulness; it faded away into despair as she made no sign of having even heard his words. He let go his hold of her, and his arm fell loosely by his side. 'I may die, he said, 'for my life is ended! 'Sylvia! spoke out Kinraid, bold and fervent, 'your marriage is no marriage. You were tricked into it. You are my wife, not his.
He wandered miserably about the house and garden, smoking endless cigarettes, and invariably asking her with a piteous, dog-like wistfulness whenever they met if there were nothing that he could do. There never was anything, but she had not the heart to tell him so, and she used to invent errands for him to make him happier. She herself did not go beyond the garden for many days.
He is looking with such intense wistfulness at me, that I turn away. Why should not there be passionate love between us? Who is there but himself to hinder it? So I make no answer.
Her smile had in it just a touch of wistfulness. "I understand you, Hugh, better than you think. You want to get back to your work, and and I should be happier. I'm not so silly and so ignorant as to think that I can satisfy you always. And I'd like to get settled at home, I really should." There surged up within me a feeling of relief. I seized her hand as it lay on the table.
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