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His successor had plunged with energy into all manner of improvements; and among others he fell to draining a piece of outlying waste and unreclaimed land of Lord Cumnor's, which was close to Squire Hamley's property; that very piece for which he had had the Government grant, but which now lay neglected, and only half-drained, with stacks of mossy tiles, and lines of up-turned furrows telling of abortive plans.
"I was curious to meet you, Mr. Kagig, but that's nothing to the attraction that draws me now. I must meet the other man is it Monty you all call him or never know a moment's peace!" "You mean you will not go to Tarsus?" "Of course I won't!" "Of course!" laughed Fred. "Any young woman " "Of course?" Kagig repeated the extravagant gesture of shrugged shoulders and up-turned palms. "Ah, well.
'E'es, I'll take it, he replied, holding out his hand. 'Tom Brice, you won't deceive me? 'Noa, sure, said Tom and Meg nearly in the same breath. 'You are an honest English lad, Tom you would not betray me? I was speaking imploringly. 'Noa, sure, repeated Tom. There was something a little unsatisfactory in the countenance of this light-haired youth, with the sharpish up-turned nose.
If you shut yours you could pretend too, and I wish you could go on singing for ever and ever! Nesta laughed, and kissed the little eager, up-turned face. 'I should get very tired and hungry, I'm afraid. I am not an angel, Betty; but you're right, darling. I, too, get very near to heaven when I'm singing; and she added musingly, In heart and mind ascending, My spirit follows Thee.
To the surprise of even two such veteran flyers as John Ross and Tom Meeks, the airplane had gone less than fifty yards when she began to rise as gracefully as a swallow in response to her up-turned ailerons and elevators. In less than ten seconds she was well up over the fair-grounds, and the roofs of all the buildings in the neighborhood were seen below them.
It was strong and fierce, thin and clean-cut marred only, in his estimation, by the funny little tuft of hair on the lower lip. He liked the wavy, rough, up-turned moustache, but not that silly tuft. How nice he would look with his hair cut, his lower lip shaved, and his ridiculous silks, velvet, and lace exchanged for a tweed shooting-suit or cricketing-flannels!
What would happen to The Open Arms and the twins in such a case, his worried brain simply couldn't conceive. Out of the corner of his eye every time he passed the open door on to the verandah he could see the two Annas standing motionless on its edge, their up-turned faces, as they gazed at the stars, white in the moonlight and very serious. Pathetic children. Pathetic, solitary, alien children.
Best of all, in late afternoon, the true colors came to the eye six-foot circles of smooth emerald, with up-turned hem of rich wine-color. Each had a tell-tale cable lying along the surface, a score of leaves radiating from one deep hidden root.
Peter knew how the stirred leaves would be shivering white, only in the dark twilight one could not see. The dusk paled and paled. Soon one would catch the silver of up-turned leaves. On the soft deep dust the treading feet of the travellers moved quietly. One walked with a light unevenness, a slight limp.
Margaret could not help her looks; but the short curled upper lip, the round, massive up-turned chin, the manner of carrying her head, her movements, full of a soft feminine defiance, always gave strangers the impression of haughtiness.
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