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He's too elusive the devil-sent " He was proceeding to further particulars when Mitchell checked him. "I want you to bear in mind that this is no strong-arm gang, and I'm neither dip nor climber." His emphasis was withering. "My credit is involved in this affair now, and I'm going through with it. If he'd had the dough with him he'd handed it out just like he did the check.
That strange, exalted look gave place to another, which was as if a withering blight had crossed her face, and she turned and looked at Noel. He met that look of desolation and anguish with firm, unflinching eyes. "I love you," he whispered low, but clear. "Then spare me," she whispered back. "Once more, Christine," he said.
Nature perhaps she was relenting a little, perhaps she saw that humanity was sliding down the scale, withering, and a bit of extra sunshine would serve to check the descension and breed a little optimism. Cutty's study. The sunlight, thrown westward, turned windows and roofs and towers into incomparable bijoux.
But while poor Silas's loss served thus to brush the slow current of Raveloe conversation, Silas himself was feeling the withering desolation of that bereavement about which his neighbours were arguing at their ease.
But he of the black mustache followed Condy's glance, noted the picture of which he spoke, and snorted contemptuously. They even heard him mutter beneath his mustache: "BARKENTINE your eye!" "No doubt as to which is the captain now," whispered Condy so soon as the other had removed from him a glance of withering scorn.
"To oblige, bein' begged to by Keyse as a fyvour. 'E didn't know 'is own mind them d'ys!" explained Mrs. Keyse, sweeping her husband's scorching countenance with a glance of withering scorn. "Nor did you," retorted W. Keyse, stung to defiance. "Walkin' out with a Dopper you was if it comes to that." He spun round, mid-ankle deep in sand, to finish.
Finishing his discourse, he squatted himself down on the stool of a large hemlock, which, being recently cut down, cumbered the woodside with its giant stem, and secured him, with its evergreen top now lowly laid and withering, from the most narrow scrutiny; while I, giving the gallant horse his head, went at a brisk hand-gallop across the firm short turf of the fair sloping hill-side, taking a moderate fence in my stroke, which Peacock cleared in a style that satisfied me Harry had by no means exaggerated his capacity to act as hunter, in lieu of the less glorious occupation, to which in general he was doomed.
"I must make Beatrice more flashing at first, and softer afterwards. This will be an improvement upon my old reading of the part. She must be always merry and by turns scornful, tormenting, vexed, self-communing, absent, melting, teasing, brilliant, indignant, sad-merry, thoughtful, withering, gentle, humorous, and gay, Gay, Gay!
Clytie's tone was withering as she haled forth the shrinking culprit, her small hands over her eyes. "She lost her purse with the dollar she had saved up for your Christmas present lost the money for dear father's present; and all because she took it with her to buy a five-cent pencil a green pencil with purple glass in the end of it; to buy something for herself before Christmas!"
He tried, indeed, to be grave, but smiled irresistibly as he mounted the steps to greet his wife, who stood demurely awaiting his caress. And in this interval Mademoiselle shot at Nick a swift and withering look as she passed him. He returned a grimace. "Messieurs," said Monsieur de St. Gre, turning to us, "dinner will soon be ready if you will be so good as to pardon me until then."
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