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"I should say Miss Hetherington is the belle," suggested a third. "Which is Miss Hetherington?" asked the Oxonian coolly of Alfred. "Oh, she won't do for us. It is that little chalk-faced girl, dressed in pink with red roses; the pink of vulgarity and bad taste." At this both Oxonians laughed arrogantly, and Mrs. Dodd withdrew her hand from the speaker's arm and glided away behind the throng.
Singular man! the Navarrese marriage was a common subject of their talk; she spoke of it with serious mockery and he with mock seriousness. From Richard it was, 'Countess Jehane, when the chalk-faced Spaniard reigns you must mend your manners. And she might say, 'Beau sire, Madame Berengère will never like your songs unless you sing of her. All this served the girl's private ends.
During that interval, Riley Sinclair raised his head to escape from the steady, reproachful gaze of John Gaspar. Down in the valley bottom, Sour Creek flashed muddy-yellow and far away. Just beyond, the sun gleamed on the chalk-faced cliff. Still higher, the mountains changed between dawn and full day. There was the country for Riley Sinclair. What he did down here in the valleys did not matter.
The policeman smiled a good night, and returned to the side of his charge, who had been intently watching Lorison's face during the conversation, no doubt for some indication of his intention to render succour. Now, at the failure of the sign, and at the movement made to continue the ignominious progress, she abandoned hope, and addressed him thus, pointedly: "You damn chalk-faced quitter!
For an hour I watched this constant stream of borax as it slid down into the hungry crushers, and I listened to the chalk-faced operator who yelled in my ear. Once he picked a piece of gypsum out of the borax. He said the mill was getting out twenty-five hundred sacks a day.
If she had been only beautiful she would never have attracted him as she did. This tall wistful girl told the truth but told it incredibly! Think of this. Shortly after the coronation, Bentivoglio, the chalk-faced tyrant of Bologna, came with an army on his way to Forlì. He had an old grudge against Nona. While he was there came a new summons from Bentivoglio, a messenger with a white flag.
He rose from the bed and looked round at the brown faces circled about him in the shine of the lamps. "I'll not tell you a thing not a thing." He stood there chalk-faced, his lips so dry that he had to keep moistening them with the tip of his tongue. Two thoughts hammered in his head. One was that he had come to the end of his trail, the other that he would game it out without weakening.
He is leagues away by now, quoth I. Confound that chalk-faced girl! she has outwitted us bearded men; and so I told the burgomaster, but he would not hear reason. A wet jerkin apiece, that is all we shall get, mates, by this job." Martin grinned coolly in Dierich's face. "However," added the latter, "to content the burgomaster, we will search the house." Martin turned grave directly.
"Martel is " His knees sagged and he would have pitched forward had not the soldier supported him. "We met them in the woods. Cardi " "Cardi!" echoed the Colonel in a harsh voice. "Cardi!" came from a dozen frightened throats. The Donna Teresa uttered a second shrill cry, and then through the ranks of staring, chalk-faced peasants the Countess came running swiftly. "Cardi!" she cried.
Unless the eyes peering into the night were bad barometers of their owner's inner state, he was in a panic of fear. "Love o' Gawd, d-don't shoot!" he chattered. "I ain't nobody but the caretaker." He backed slowly away, followed by Lindsay. The barrel of the thirty-eight held his eyes fascinated. By the light of his flash Clay discovered the man to be a chalk-faced little inconsequent.
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