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... expression had come into it since we last met . She looked happy and proud , but there was a wistful tenderness in the deep blue eyes which had not always been there ; I perceived also a slight flutter in her way of moving , and she ...
... expression had come into it since we last met . She looked happy and proud , but there was a wistful tenderness in the deep blue eyes which had not always been there ; I perceived also a slight flutter in her way of moving , and she ...
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... expression which Helen's dark eye- brows and lashes gave to hers . His eyes , too , were blue - a good deep violet - blue , not a pale feeble colour - in fact , they looked black at night . It was more in their respective movements and ...
... expression which Helen's dark eye- brows and lashes gave to hers . His eyes , too , were blue - a good deep violet - blue , not a pale feeble colour - in fact , they looked black at night . It was more in their respective movements and ...
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... expression in mute astonishment . The girl positively glowed and quivered under my words as if they had been the most ardent love - vows , instead of a disjointed and silly sentence , for I was too sleepy to be coherent . My eyes opened ...
... expression in mute astonishment . The girl positively glowed and quivered under my words as if they had been the most ardent love - vows , instead of a disjointed and silly sentence , for I was too sleepy to be coherent . My eyes opened ...
Page 85
... expression . I believe all the young Saville and Kenneth boys— and they were neither few nor far between — fell in love with her one after another as soon as they were old enough to appreciate her stories . My boys raved of her to me ...
... expression . I believe all the young Saville and Kenneth boys— and they were neither few nor far between — fell in love with her one after another as soon as they were old enough to appreciate her stories . My boys raved of her to me ...
Page 122
... expressing his emotions , and as he left the room he gave Monica a pathetic , im- ploring look , a look which plainly said , " Be merci- ful to me ; " but Monica's calm countenance did not relax , and I rather agreed with Miss Alicia ...
... expressing his emotions , and as he left the room he gave Monica a pathetic , im- ploring look , a look which plainly said , " Be merci- ful to me ; " but Monica's calm countenance did not relax , and I rather agreed with Miss Alicia ...
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