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The Overland pulled out, flirting its tail at me contemptuously. A small, battered-looking car, grayed and caked with white alkali dust, glided alongside, and from under its swaying and disreputable top emerged someone I knew. Not individually. But by many campfires of the past I had foregathered with him and his kind. Same old Arizona, I repeated to myself.
"I don't suppose I ever did," answered Neal, suppressed laughter making him shake. Upon a gray pine stump, beside the blaze, which he was feeding with a hemlock bough, sat a battered-looking yet lively personage.
He sat with a ridiculously contented look on his face, smoking a small briar pipe, and he laughed outright as I circled his mud-hole and came to a stop opposite the car with its nose poked deep down in the mire, for all the world like a rooting shote. "Good morning, Diana," he said, quite coolly, as he removed his battered-looking cap.
"Hier ist meine Frau!" A battered-looking woman came hurrying down the passage, calling out in German, "Don't let him go!" With a snarling sound the shoemaker turned his back, and shambled off. The woman furtively thrust a letter into Swithin's hand, and furtively waited. The letter was from Rozsi. "Forgive me" it ran "that I leave you and do not say goodbye.
"Twenty paces," stiffly returned one of Ferrari's friends a battered-looking middle-aged roue with ferocious mustachios, whom I presumed was Captain Ciabatti. They went on measuring carefully and in silence. During the pause I turned my back on the whole party, slipped off my spectacles and put them in my pocket.
Your letter came in the morning, but you said nothing about a parcel, meaning it for a surprise, so I was disappointed, for I'd had a 'kind of feeling' that you wouldn't forget me. I felt a little low in my mind as I sat up in my room after tea, and when the big, muddy, battered-looking bundle was brought to me, I just hugged it and pranced.
Revolvers in hand, and ready, the two young officers of the "Sudbury" pressed forward into the battered-looking room. "Where is the rascal?" growled Eph Somers. "Here, hiding like a cornered rat," replied Jack, aiming both revolvers at a huddled figure well in under the lower berth. "Come out, Gray! You won't be hurt unless you try tricks on us." The answer was a groan.
"Let me carry this 'ere for you, gov'ner," then in a whisper that none could overhear, he said in German: "For your life, follow me." "Go on," directed the stranger in English, pausing to adjust his cravat, and made his leisurely way after the hurrying porter. The latter stopped finally by the side of a somewhat battered-looking limousine.
"Hang me," said Edward to himself, "if she has not taken up with that confounded old military frump. Painting together! Ah, I know what that means. Well, I should have thought that if there was one man more than another whom she would have disliked, it would have been that battered-looking Colonel."
And happiness is mathematically elusive as the fish for which the fishermen wait. And yet An old man with a battered face. A young man with a battered face. Silent, stoical, battered-looking men with fishpoles. A hundred, two hundred, they sit staring into the water of the lake as if they were looking for something. For fish? Incredible.
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