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There was a full mile of level, sandy beach and quite as level shore ice to be crossed before she could reach the protection of the up-turned and tumbled ice farther out to sea. On they came. Now their cries sounded more distinctly; they were gaining. Now she heard the hoarse gasps of the foremost runner; now imagining that she felt his hot breath on her cheek she redoubled her energy.
"I'll speak to them," he said. "Unbar the window, Jael;" and before I could hinder, he was leaning right out. "Holloa, there!" At his loud and commanding voice a wave of up-turned faces surged forward, expectant. "My men, do you know what you are about? To burn down a gentleman's house is hanging." There was a hush, and then a shout of derision.
Chloe crowded close, shoving the Indians aside. There was a swift movement near her. The Louchoux girl forced past and leaped lightly to the top of the wood-pile, where she knelt close, staring downward with hard, burning eyes into the up-turned face of Lapierre. The man could bend no farther now, his shoulders were imbedded in the snow and the back of his head was buried to the ears.
The lights from the street lamps flickered on the up-turned, anxious faces. Some of the children had begun to weep. Women offered loud suggestions. There were surmises that Bobby had been run over by a cart in the street, and angry conjectures that he had been stolen. Then Ailie wailed: "Oh, Maister Traill, the bittie dog's deid!" "Havers, lassie! I'm ashamed o' ye for a fulish bairn.
"I want to write the kind of ad," Jock was saying excitedly, "that you see 'em staring at in the subways, and street cars and L-trains. I want to sit across the aisle and watch their up-turned faces staring at that oblong, and reading it aloud to each other." "Isn't that an awfully obvious necktie you're wearing, Jock?" inquired his mother irrelevantly. "This? You ought to see some of them.
Frank called suddenly. "There's a shark!" Simultaneously, the others saw what he saw a sinister black triangle swiftly shearing the water. They ran, yelling, down to the water's edge and stood there trying to shout a warning over the noise of the surf. Honey did not get it at once. He was still floating, his smiling, up-turned face looking into Lulu's smiling, down-turned one.
For even while she was speaking the corners of Steve's eyelids began to crinkle; before she had finished mocking at him in a voice that still caught unsteadily in her throat, it was her up-turned face which had grown pink under his gravely amused scrutiny. "Was it as bad as that?" he asked.
In the cold evening air, to the amusement of a passing detail of soldiers trundling a breadwagon by a rope, Stewart stood on the pavement and dodged verbal brickbats of Viennese idioms and German epithets. He drew his chin into the up-turned collar of his overcoat and waited, an absurdly patient figure, until the hail of consonants had subsided into a rain of tears.
The small, up-turned nose and full red lips were always smiling; so were the eyes; and the fair skin and still golden hair, the plump figure and gay dress of flower-sprigged muslin, were all in keeping with the part. "You have never seen my cousin before?" she inquired. "Lady Dunstable? Is she your cousin?" Miss Field nodded. "My first cousin.
Yet it was certainly strange that a young lady should play the "czimbalom," that country instrument which they are wont to carry under the covering of a ragged coat, and to place upon inn-tables, or up-turned barrels.
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