I realised this even while I held Ella's eye with mine and smoothed my countenance to meet the anguish in hers, in the effort to hold her back for a few minutes longer till I could quite satisfy myself that Arthur's case was really lost and that I must speak or feel myself his murderer.

She watched every expression of my countenance, and then, when I had finished reading and placed my arm tenderly about her slim waist, she raised her beautiful face to mine to receive the passionate kiss I imprinted upon those soft, full lips.

As soon as we were out of hearing, moving so as partly to hide my countenance and entirely to conceal her own gesture from the object of her compassion, she checked my steps by a gentle pressure on my arm and looked up earnestly into my face.

Neither my countenance nor my mind is unused to a maskthanks to necessity!

What is the matter, Berkeley?" A sudden light had burst upon me, and I suppose my countenance betrayed the fact.

Had not grimalkin stamp'd and star'd, Aminadab had little car'd; Or if, instead of this brown bill, I had kept my Mistress Virga still, And he upon another's back, His points untruss'd, his breeches slack; My countenance he should not dash, For I am expert in the lash.

All these circumstances concurred in affecting my health; I looked thin; my countenance became yellow; I had also rheumatic feelings.

Can I help?" The Bonnie Lassie focused her gaze in a peculiar manner upon the exact center of my countenance.

I saw Grace endeavouring to get a look at my countenance, as if to observe the effect of the scene.

Grace now turned towards me, releasing her hold of Lucy's neck, from pure inability to sustain it; and she fastened her serene blue eyes on my countenance, whence they never deviated while she breathed.

Marble was standing near when this command was given; and seeing disgust, most likely, in my countenance, he took on himself the office of replying: "You think accounts should be balanced, then, before these men quit the ship?"

My countenance, rather than my tongue, demanded an explanation.

He could not help observing an uncommon dejection and anxiety in my countenance, and affectionately enquired into the reason.

I was celebrated round the country for the petulance of my remarks, and the quickness of my replies; and many a scholar, five years older than myself, have I dashed into confusion by the steadiness of my countenance, silenced by my readiness of repartee, and tortured with envy by the address with which I picked up a fan, presented a snuff-box, or received an empty tea-cup.

At the mentioning the word pirates, my countenance turned to that of scarlet; nor was it possible for me to conceal it from the old pilot; who was taking notice of it, Sir, said he take what course you please, I'll do you all the service I can.

My frame is puny and my countenance irresolute.

I at first kept my usual Silence; but upon the Knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not still more like himself than a Saracen, I composed my Countenance in the best manner I could, and replied, That much might be said on both Sides.

" "By himself?" "By himself, worse luck!" reply I, despondently, reinterring my countenance in my pocket-handkerchief.

In this light one has to look closely at any object that one wishes specially and narrowly to observe; and I myself have pointed out the peculiarities of my countenance to him, so I cannot complain if he scrutinizes me with a lengthy attention.

I therefore no longer compunctiously strangle any stray smiles that visit my countenance.

Assuredly I shall have to take some severe measures with my countenance before it falls under my sister's gaze.

"Not even yet have you ceased to penetrate my thoughts, my dearest mother," she replied; "from childhood unto the present hour you have read my countenance as an open book.

I should have died with joy, and- swelled so greatly with pleasure, that my jama could hardly contain me, and my countenance and appearance became changed; I praised God, and said to her, this moment all the art of physic is centered in you, who have restored a corpse like me to life with a single word; behold, from that time to this, what a change has taken place in my circumstances [by the kindness you have shewn]."

Perhaps there was something in the expression of my countenance which Mr. Axminster did not like, for he said, "It is good for the amount, I presume?" I replied, "Pray, sir, from whom did you get this bill?"

I returned to my chamber, and endeavored to dissipate every idea which might tend to disorder my countenance, and break the silence I wished to observe relative to what had happened.