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"We?" he repeated. "Am I to have the pleasure," with a slight wryness of the mouth, "of finding Mr. Vanderpoel also at Stornham?" "No not yet. As I was on the spot, I saw your solicitors and asked their advice and approval for my father. If he had known how necessary the work was, it would have been done before, for Ughtred's sake."
Not the least pathetic feature of it all was the length and wryness of our deliverers' faces when they sought to buy refreshments a tin of something cup of anything and the loud laugh that spake the vacant wares of the gay restaurateur as he brokenly explained the Permit Law with all its "tape" and pomps.
Who was the genius who invented it?" Thorn smiled, and there was a subtle wryness in the smile. "Genius is the word, I suppose. Now that the contracts with the Navy have been signed, I can give you the straight story. But you're wrong in saying that the thing didn't exist three months ago. It did. We just didn't know about it, that's all." Lacey raised his bushy, iron-gray eyebrows. "Oh?
There was a certain wryness in her companion's smile, for though Hawtrey had cast no particular slur upon the family's credit he had signally failed to enhance it, and he was quite aware that his English relatives did not greatly desire his presence in the Old Country. "My dear," he said, "you really shouldn't hit a fellow in the eye that way."
The champions were rioting at this banquet with every sort of wantonness, and flinging from all over the room knobbed bones at a certain Hjalte; but it chanced that his messmate, named Bjarke, received a violent blow on the head through the ill aim of the thrower; at whom, stung both by the pain and the jeering, he sent the bone back, so that he twisted the front of his head to the back, and wrung the back of it to where the front had been; punishing the wryness of the man's temper by turning his face sidelong.
There was the smallest possible twist of wryness to the man's lips as he admitted to himself the necessity for the final words. "I see." The girl's relief was so obvious that, for a moment, the man's gaze became averted. Perhaps Jessie was unaware of the manner in which she had revealed her feelings. Perhaps she knew, and had even calculated it. Much of her mother's courage was hers.
"In truth," said he with a smile that had not a trace of wryness, "I have chosen my means ill for this one time, though they say that I choose well. Well, God rules the world." "By deputy, sir," said I. "And deputies don't do His will always? Come, Mr Dale, for this hour you hold the post and fill it well.
As yet he was too little the journalist to comprehend that the influences which corrupt the news are likely to be dangerous in proportion as they are subtle. Wayne understood better, and smiled with a cynical wryness of mouth upon McGuire Ellis, who, having passed Hal and Esmé on the stairs, had lingered at the city desk and heard the editor-in-chief's half-hearted order.
Though Mr Rugg saw plainly there was no preventing this from being done, still the wryness of his face and the uneasiness of his limbs so sorely required the propitiation of a Protest, that he made one. 'I offer no objection, sir, said he, 'I argue no point with you. I will carry out your views, sir; but, under protest. Mr Rugg then stated, not without prolixity, the heads of his protest.
In which two fancies I have no belief. A rogue is a rogue all the world over, and flies his flag in his face for those who can read the bunting. He may flatter the light eye or the cold eye, but the warm gaze will find some lurking line by the lip, some wryness of feature, some twist of the devil's fingers in his face, to betray him.
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