The Austrian crinkled his brow, and after a momentous pause, shook his head till his cheeks rattled.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The American had listened perplexed, now with a quick, eager start, now with crinkled brows.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Virgilia crinkled up her eyes in a little spasm of confidential merriment and then opened them on her surroundings-the rich sobriety of the furniture; the casual picturesque groupings of "nice people"; the shining tea-urn flanked by the candles in their fluted paper shades; the heavy gilded frames inclosing copies made by Dill in the galleries of Madrid and St. Petersburg; other canvases set against the base-boards face back so as at once to pique and to balk curiosity with regard to the host's own work; the graceful dignity of Dill himself, upon whom Virgilia's eyes rested last yet longest.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller