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Like the steaming earth and the park elms without in their tender green, this stately room seemed swept by the breath of spring. The warm tones of the hangings, the Spanish leather, the lavish mahogany, glowed responsive to the fingering sunlight, and the painted simulacra of his predecessors looked down almost benignantly from their gilded frames.
"Don't tell tales out of school." He was silent for a moment, fingering his big eyeglasses nervously. "It may please you to know that she thinks you are an exceedingly nice man." "No, it doesn't!" I roared irascibly. "I'm damned if I like being called an exceedingly nice man." "They were my words, sir, not hers," he explained desperately.
Perhaps we would even hurt them badly I insinuated, fingering my revolver, for we had a duty to do. We were going to inspect the entire Palace and see that all was well. And before these men had recovered from their surprise we had pushed right into the Empress Dowager's own ante-chambers. I saw, as I walked in, that a long avenue in the distance led directly to a high yellow-walled enclosure.
When we return with it to the holy place, who of all the Koraish will fail to see the finger of God which has led us? "But the leader shook his head. 'Nay, Ali, it may not be, he answered. 'This man is, as I judge, a citizen of Rome, and we may not treat him as though he were an idolater. "'But he is an unbeliever, cried the youth, fingering a great knife which hung in his belt.
In the meantime, while Lise was in the bedroom adding these last touches, Edward would contemptibly continue the conversation, fingering the Evening Banner as it lay in his lap, while Mr. Wiley helped himself boldly to another doughnut, taking as Janet observed elaborate precautions to spill none of the crumbs on a brown suit, supposed to be the last creation in male attire.
It was some other jasper. Longstreet was absorbed in another interest. He took the unminted gold into his own hands, fingering it and studying it. 'It is around here everywhere, my dear, he told Helen with his old placid assurance.
"And if he happens to be an Alpinist?" she shrugged, still breathing fast and irregularly, picking up the torn edge of her wool skirt and fingering the rent. "Really. An Alpinist? A rendezvous in Delle, eh? And who were your two friends?" "Boys from my canton." "Is that so?"
He saw a man of about fifty nervously fingering the little bits of fluffy red whisker which grew at the sides of his face, and trying to still the agitation of his tremulous mouth. "How would you like it yourself?" demanded the visitor, whose manner was gradually becoming milder and milder. "How would you like a telescope a yard long pointing "
He loved art and spent large sums upon his collection; yet, said he, "I should grudge the money for other occasions did it not furnish me with the entrancing spectacle of a middle-aged statesman panting after masterpieces, fingering this or that painted board, and staking his position in this world and the next upon the momentous question, Is this ear in the manner of Fra Angelico? or, Could Mantegna have so foreshortened a leg?
Miss Gillis has been sufficiently shocked at thus discovering my real character, and now returns in penitence to be reared according to the admonitions of the Presbyterian faith. Do I state this fairly, Naida?" "I have come back," she faltered, fingering the chain at her throat, "I have come back." "Without Bob Hampton?" The girl glanced uneasily toward him, but he stood motionless in the gloom.
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