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Updated: June 20, 2025
His face expressed much pleasure, though he regarded Madge Beresford with something of timidity. 'I was afraid you would not venture out on such a morning, he said, looking at the clear blue-gray eyes that were immediately turned away. Her manner was civil, but that was all.
Fortunately for Smith, the horse was not one of the fiery devilish species that would not be ridden. He straightened out presently and calmed down. "He was goin' to pile me shore," declared Smith. Charley Brown caught a blue-gray, fine-looking horse, whose appearance, no doubt had attracted the miner; but he turned out to be a counterfeit, and Charley "bit the dust," as Blinky called it.
Over the blue-gray slope of tiled roofs there is a vast quivering and fluttering of extraordinary shapes, a spectacle not indeed new to me, but always delicious Everywhere are floating tied to very tall bamboo poles immense brightly colored paper fish, which look and move as if alive.
But at last a mist gathered over the blue-gray eyes, and the lips found a word they could utter, the old childish "Magsie!" Maggie could make no answer but a long, deep sob of that mysterious, wondrous happiness that is one with pain. As soon as she could speak, she said, "We will go to Lucy, Tom; we'll go and see if she is safe, and then we can help the rest."
A man was walking up and down the shaded alley, passing and repassing the bench where she sat. She observed him, saw that he was watching her. He was a young man a very young man of middle height, strongly built. He had crisp, short dark hair, a darkish skin, amiable blue-gray eyes, pleasing features. She decided that he was of good family, was home from some college on vacation.
The hall was the noblest I had ever seen; it had a stone and bronze fireplace some twenty or thirty feet long on one side, and several tall arched doorways on the other. The spaces between the doors were covered with sculpture, its material being a blue-gray stone combined or inlaid with a yellow metal, the effect being indescribably rich.
Sometimes he carried his prey to a post, and beat it a while before presenting it to her; and one evening, somewhat later than usual, he was found industriously gleaning food from the hosts of the air, flying up in the manner of a flycatcher, and to all appearance with perfect success. The loggerhead shrike is one of our most beautiful birds, clear blue-gray above, and snowy white below.
But she was aroused by the entrance of Christina, who came in directly after Macleod left. Miss White stared at this tall white-haired woman, as if uncertain how to address her; when she spoke, it was in a friendly and persuasive way. "You have not forgotten me, then, Christina?" "No, mem," said the grave Highland woman. She had beautiful, clear, blue-gray eyes, but there was no pity in them.
I was six hours on my way instead of three, as before, and they were hours full of light and sunny bliss. My little city lay as sweetly pensive in the bright glow of sunlight as a drifting isle of the blessed. The round, leafy, blue-gray crowns of the trees with the little belfry peaking out above them, appeared as if tranquilly floating above the sparkling silvery sheet of water
He had suspected from the beginning that there was Southern blood of some strain in her. Now he studied her frankly, and, just to try her out, said carelessly: "If you weren't so tanned you'd be quite fair; your eyes are gray too. Blue-gray when you smile, dark gray when you are angry; and yet you say your mother was Mexican "
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