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The cabinet on which the tabernacle stood had been moved to the side of the room, close to one of the windows, where the pale morning light fell upon it so as to make the painted forms discernible enough to Romola, who know them well, the triumphant Bacchus, with his clusters and his vine-clad spear, clasping the crowned Ariadne; the Loves showering roses, the wreathed vessel, the cunning-eyed dolphins, and the rippled sea: all encircled by a flowery border, like a bower of paradise.
"Ay, ay," was the muttered answer, as Mrs. Manners clutched the child a little, thin-limbed, cunning-eyed girl, of eight or ten years old and pressed her to her breast, with a strain more like the gripe of a lioness than a tender woman's clasp. Then she fell back exhausted, and took no more notice of anybody. Meliora forgot Mr.
Gedge was chief of the commercial part of the expedition, and his manner proclaimed it. Thin-lipped, cunning-eyed, but strong and self-reliant, he was absorbed in the chances of trade. He had been twenty years in the Marquesas islands. A shrewd man among kanakas, unscrupulous by his own account, he had prospered.
I wondered who this Villaorna might be, but when he entered I saw that he was Larico, that same stern-faced, cunning-eyed lord who had been the spokesman of the Inca when he visited the city of the Chancas. Also I learned that Villaorna was his title and meant "Chief priest." We bowed to each other and all were sent from the chamber, leaving us quite alone.
Instantly Larry turned toward it, relaxed and yet alert for anything. Old Jimmie and Barney Palmer entered. "Hello, Larry!" cried the old man, crossing. "Welcome to our city!" "Hello, Jimmie. Hello, Barney." And Larry shook hands with his partners of other days. "Gee, Larry, it's good to see you!" exclaimed the cunning-eyed old man.
But what was his disgust and disappointment at finding his late pupil tete-a-tete over a comfortable fish-dinner, opposite a burly, vulgar, cunning-eyed man, with a narrow rim of muslin turned down over his stiff cravat, of whose profession there could be no doubt. 'My dearest sir, said the new convert, springing up with an air of extreme empressement, 'what an unexpected pleasure!
It would not have occurred to her that they could do her any harm. One night the fire-house gang had all assembled save one, a little shrimp of a good-for-nothing, nearly hairless, toothless, cunning-eyed, and given to drink when he could lay lips on any. He had a wide loose mouth with a tendency to droop crookedly, and his hands were always clammy and limp.
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