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Oh dear!" cried Bella, uttering a sob, and then giving vent to a tremendous sneeze. "Bless the King!" said Martha Gusset quietly. "Sneeze again, dear; it'll do you no end of good." The advice came rather late, for the girl's face was already wrinkling up for another nervous convulsion that seemed stronger than the last.
For reclining upon a rough bunk, with knees drawn up, was Archibald Archer, busily engaged in whittling a stick, his freckled nose wrinkling up in a kind of grotesque accompaniment to each movement of his hand against the hard wood. "I I thought " Tom began. "Well, I'll be " countered Archer. For a moment they stared at each other in blank amaze.
My old knight is upon the point of tears, and Katharine felt herself brushing along the wall of the corridor towards the open door. The immense horse with his steel-plates spreading out like skirts from its haunches dropped its head motionlessly close to the rail, and the grey, wrinkling steel of the figure on its back caught the reflection of the low clouds in flakes of light and shadow.
A skull cap hid his baldness, a fringe of gray below it suggesting what was not beneath it. His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as a dough eraser. In fact, when he laughed his little chin with the tip of beard did curl up like one of those rubber-toy faces where chin kicks brow.
Glancing into the drawing-room from the passage, I saw my uncle and my mother. My uncle, with his hands behind his back, was walking nervously up and down close to the wall, shrugging his shoulders. Mother, exhausted and looking much thinner, was sitting on the sofa and watching his movements with heavy eyes. "Excuse me, sister, but this won't do at all," my uncle grumbled, wrinkling up his face.
I fall asleep generally as soon as my head touches the pillow, and I do not wake until the next morning. Why, if the house tumbled down around me, I believe that I would not know it. I will remove my jacket, to keep it from wrinkling." This information seemed to please her companion. She breathed a sigh of relief, and an ominous glitter crept into her small black eyes.
The big cowboy fixed his eyes upon him eagerly. "Did they go around?" he asked incredulously. "Jasp and all?" "Sure," said Hardy. "Why?" For a long minute Creede was silent, wrinkling his brows as he pondered upon the miracle. "Well, that's what I want to know," he answered ambiguously.
He lay motionless under the quilt and stared at the dark ceiling; then, seeing the moon looking in at the window, he turned his eyes from the ceiling towards the companion of the earth, and lay so with open eyes till the morning. At nine o'clock in the morning Zhukov, the manager, ran in. "What has put it into your head to be ill, my angel?" he cackled, wrinkling up his nose. "Aie, aie!
Grinning and wrinkling up his snub nose, Barabbas let it be understood that he was not to be won with women and promises he was no longer young enough. Neither would he have any executioner dispatched in search of him he was not old enough. And he had his weaknesses. He could not decide which would suit the noble citizen's slender, white neck best, metal or silk.
Archer's last word had been: "You must take May to see Mrs. Carfry." Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs. Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins. "It's all very well for you, Newland; you KNOW them.
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