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1  She lifted stricken eyes to him.
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2  She started up with frightened eyes.
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3  He paused, his eyes wandering from her miserably.
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4  He kept his eyes fixed on the light till it vanished.
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5  They strained their eyes at each other through the icy darkness.
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6  As she passed Ethan's chair their eyes met and clung together desolately.
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7  He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes.
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8  She raised distressed eyes to his, her work dropping on the table between them.
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9  He was still kneeling when his eyes, on a level with the lower panel of the door, caught a faint ray beneath it.
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10  For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
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11  He became suddenly conscious that he was looking at Mattie while Zeena talked to him, and with an effort he turned his eyes to his wife.
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12  He kept his eyes fixed on her, marvelling at the way her face changed with each turn of their talk, like a wheat-field under a summer breeze.
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13  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
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14  In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
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15  Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl's face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership.
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16  The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.
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17  As she passed down the line, her light figure swinging from hand to hand in circles of increasing swiftness, the scarf flew off her head and stood out behind her shoulders, and Frome, at each turn, caught sight of her laughing panting lips, the cloud of dark hair about her forehead, and the dark eyes which seemed the only fixed points in a maze of flying lines.
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