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So did these two youths face each other, smiling above their gleaming steel, and so the long blades rang together, and, thereafter, the air was full of a clashing din, in so much that Roger came running sword in hand, with Walkyn and Giles at his heels; but, seeing how matters stood, they sat them down on the sward, watching round-eyed and eager.
"You don't know what you're talking of; nothing's so fatal as delay in such matters." "Why?" "I tell you, boy, nothing's so fatal. I know from experience." His voice had the ring of exasperation. Val regarded him round-eyed, never having known his uncle express any sort of feeling. Oh!
"Y' ain't goin' back, are yer?" protested the child, round-eyed. "I'm not quite sure," replied Sylvia. Each new, trifling incident reassured her, and went to lighten her heart. Here was home and welcome, whatever had been her mistakes abroad. Minty ran on to the waterside, and the three resumed their walk.
Helen May did not say anything at all. She got up and went to her room and came back with Peter's last, pitiful letter. She gave it to Vic and sat down again on the arm of the Mission chair and waited, looking at him from, under her lashes, her head tilted forward. Vic was impressed, impressed to a round-eyed silence.
As sure 's deith he's efter her. Whaur cud he hae heard tell o' her? Lord Rothie came, a moment after, sauntering into the bar-parlour, where Lizzie, the third Miss Napier, a red-haired, round-eyed, white-toothed woman of forty, was making entries in a book. 'She's a bonnie lassie that, that came in the coach to-night, they say, Miss Lizzie. 'As ugly 's sin, my lord, answered Lizzie.
"One, then, who would be a fitting consort for the King of kings, who wearies of fat, round-eyed, sweetmeat-sucking fools whereof there are hundreds yonder," and he pointed towards the House of Women. "Who is this maid's father?" "He is dead but she is the niece of the Prince Peroa, and by birth the Royal Lady of Egypt, O King." "Good, then she is well born also.
In the third class are his various miscellaneous works, not the least of which is Water-Babies, a fascinating story of a chimney sweep, which mothers read to their children at bedtime, to the great delight of the round-eyed little listeners under the counterpane. MRS. GASKELL. Mrs.
And there was Bennietod, with an edge of an old horse pistol showing beneath his cuff; and, round-eyed and alert as a bird newly alighted on a stranger sill, Little Cawthorne stood; and the sight put strength into St. George, and so did Little Cawthorne's words: "I didn't know whether they'd let us in or not," he said, "unless we had on a plaited décolletté, with biases down the back."
"And I was a-thinking it would never come! It's ashamed I should be to have doubted. My big Dan!" "Is it the dolly that's brought us the good-luck, Mom?" interrupted Beryl, round-eyed. "A foreman!" cried the mother in the very tone she would have used if she had said "a king." She-danced about until the floor creaked threateningly. "Our good fortune is coming, my precious.
A flutter of applause marked the coming in of the orchestra. There was the usual scraping of chairs and whining of strings. Then suddenly Miss Gray leaned out over the box-rail, exclaiming incoherently, her hands clasping and unclasping in a wild, helpless way. An opening crash of the cymbals covered her confusion. The four girls were staring at her, round-eyed.
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