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Updated: June 16, 2025
Garnet had finished her work for the day, donned a fresh calico that fitted her plump form without a wrinkle, and sat crooning a soft lullaby to that objectionable baby, when they entered. She welcomed the ladies hospitably, but eyed askance their sombre and awful countenances. "It's a pleasant day," she said, by way of starting conversation.
Young Smith's white flannel trousers were carefully creased, his blue serge coat was without a wrinkle, his tie and socks were a perfect match, and his cap was of a style which the youth of South Harniss might be wearing the following summer, but not this one.
The minister's astonishment was so genuine that in jerking back his head his glasses slipped from his nose and dangled on the string. The Englishman bowed again, the wrinkle of a smile on his face. "I would not believe him serious at first, count," said the king, laughing easily, "but he assured me that he is. What can be done about it?"
While she was sorting dresses some trace of her mother in every fold, every wrinkle of the waists and lace collars she was listening to the bird in the cage. "I'll think of some way I'll find somebody who will want you, Dickie dear," she murmured, desperately, now and then.
My aunt Dorothy accepted the eulogy with a singular trembling wrinkle of the forehead. She evidently understood that Janet had seen her wish to get released. For my part, I shared my grandfather's stupefaction at their unaccountable changes. It appeared almost as if my father had won them over to baffle him.
When Hugh looked into the door a short time afterwards, he saw nothing that need have caused such a frown to wrinkle up his manly brow, for Lancy was only playing a simple ballad, and Dexie was seated in a low rocker some distance from the piano, her hands clasped behind her head, singing softly, her whole appearance seeming to suggest rest and contentment.
His horizontal diameter was twice that of his tall companion of the rifles; and in the rounded contour of his body, not an angle was apparent. His garments were quite filled by his body, arms and legs so that there was not a wrinkle to be seen anywhere. It was a form usually styled "dapper."
"'My dear, there would be nothing to amuse you; Mrs. Moss is an old woman. "'Granny said she was so beautiful, I suggested. "'So she was, my dear, when your grandmother was young. "These and similar remarks I heard and heeded not. They did not add one wrinkle to my ideal of Mrs. Moss: they in no way whatever lessened my desire of seeing her.
Her discolored eyes stared blindly, and her breathing became more frequent, and briefer, louder. "Se Se Se-Ser " she repeated without moving her lips. "Ser " "Dear mother!" The colonel strode forward, and all quivering in every fold of his coat, in every wrinkle of his face, not understanding how terrible he himself looked in his death-like whiteness, in his heroic, desperate firmness.
For hours he would fool with the animal, whom he had named Billy, after a hunting companion, teaching him to shake hands, to speak, to wrinkle his nose in a doggy grin, to lie down at command, and all the other tricks useful and ornamental that go to make up the fanciest kind of a dog education. The mistakes and successes of his new friend seemed to amuse him hugely.
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